IndusInd 2020 Rewardz Festival: Get 2X + 3X Rewards on credit card spends

By | November 15, 2020
IndusInd 2020 Rewardz Festival

Next to Amex Diwali offer, IndusInd’s Diwali offer is one of the lucrative ones in the industry as they usually come up with 2X/3X/5X promos every year with different spend level targets for each.

The promo is purely Points based and that is good because Indusind allows you to convert the points to cash.

Here’s the IndusInd Rewardz Festival offer for 2020 which is similar to the offers received in the past, except that they’ve now removed the 4X. Here’s everything you need to know,

Offer Details

  1. Offer period: 15th Oct, 2020 to 20th Nov, 2020
  2. Target A: Spend X to Get 2X Reward Points
  3. Target B: Spend Y to Get 3X Reward Points
  4. Spend Type: Online only
  5. Also, Get 5% on select partners after reaching Target A (refer T&C for partners list)
  6. Max. Points: Dynamic (regular points not included in this Cap)
  7. Excluded Cards: IndusInd Bank Corporate Cards, IndusInd Bank Classic Credit Card, IndusInd Bank Gold Credit Card, InterMiles IndusInd Bank Odyssey Credit Card, InterMiles IndusInd Bank Voyage Credit Card and Credit Cards issued after September 30, 2020.
  8. Also not applicable on Credit Cards with the assigned credit limit of below INR 30000.
  9. Excluded Spend Types: Insurance Premium, government taxes, bill payments and payment of fee towards school or educational program or spends done on our partner brands.
  10. Reward Points earned by registered Cardholders for spends above the assigned credit limit during the Program Period will not be forfeited, in case the spends are over and above the credit limit.
  11. Fulfilment: 31st Jan 2021
  12. To Enroll: You should have registered via SMS (JOIN to 5676757) or clicked the personalised link received on email before 20th Oct 2020.
  13. Offer T&C

Above T&C is fine and is more or less same to what they used to do before, except that now only online spends are considered.

But well, the problem is the targets and the max. cap. Here’s a look at the targets one of the cardholder received.

If your eyes are in good condition to read the tiny lines, the max cap is just just 3000, compared to 15,000 (in 2019) and 20,000 (in 2018) that they used to do before.

That aside, in my case they didn’t even allow me to avail 3X points as the max cap (6K for me) is reached before that, if I use IndusInd Iconia weekends alone.

Amex Offer

If you have Amex variant of IndusInd credit cards, you’ve this additional benefit apart from the above offer:

This too is getting worse year on year!

Bottom line

Overall, this IndusInd Rewardz festival is becoming less of a festival and more of “work“. I mean who wants to go through those 10 pages in T&C just to avail 3K points?

Even-though the potential return on spend is decent 4% (against 7% last year) in my case. It makes sense to lower the return on spend but lowering the max. cap to one third along with it isn’t fair.

So the 2020 version of IndusInd Rewards festival is very much diluted compared to how it used to be in the past as mentioned above.

However, its still a very good offer to avail just incase you’re not eligible for Amex 2020 Diwali offer.

How about your targets and max cap? Feel free to share your thoughts in the comments below.

9 thoughts on “IndusInd 2020 Rewardz Festival: Get 2X + 3X Rewards on credit card spends

  1. balaji

    Hi Sid,
    How is the bonus rewards calculated?
    Say for your case,
    If 70,000 is spent on a weekend on AmexIconia .

    66,000 * 0.02*2 = 2640
    4,000*0.02*3 = 240

    or is it
    66,000 * 0.02 = 1320
    4,000*0.02*2=160

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  2. HIMESH MISHRA

    Same Offer Received me in my ICONIA AMEX. but target 129000 for 2X & 258000 for 3X Rewards But my Bonus Reward Capping 5000

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  3. Amann

    Scb offering 5x on Ultimate card. 16.6% on all online spends 16- 22 Oct 2020. Can get max 2000 bonus points. Good for Inr 15k (online only) spends. Extremely rewarding but very low cap.

    sc.com/in/terms-and-conditions/festive-offers-tnc

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  4. dev007

    I received an email to enroll the diwali offer. But there is no mention of what is the offer.

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  5. Akshat

    IndusInd cards are among lowest value one can extract from a credit card.

    Why do you carry them, unless you just want to keep your toes dipped in every bank offering.

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      1. Akshat

        Yes it’s a good card but 1.5-2% reward rate with not much unique lifestyle benefits is not my definition of premium cc.

        It may be a good to have but surely not your default spend card

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  6. Bhavin Shah

    Received bonus points today, first time observed late credit by Indusind

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