How To Get Your “Free” £5 From Curve Card

Months months ago, the UK’s revolutionary Curve card was just a must have for uber travel nerds, and that was pretty much it.

But now, it’s like the Swiss Army Knife of clever cards, allowing you to load all your credit cards and debit cards onto one card, and switch seamlessly via the Curve app.

With developments like 0% foreign transaction fees when you use any of your credit cards abroad via Curve, it’s now a must have for any UK traveler, or anyone looking to earn extra cash back from home, offering ways to save money wherever you are, and particularly abroad.

If you get the Curve Card via a friend or referral, you get £5 free, and the basic version of the card is free too which is a really cool deal. The only problem: most people don’t actually know how to unlock their free money, or how they can spend it without the risk of their card being declined!

Register For Curve Card

First, you should really learn why its awesome. For starters, you can use your credit card abroad to earn points, but dodge the foreign transaction fees your rewards credit card, or debit card, would usually charge at the same time.

How? Curve makes all transactions in GBP, so a card you’d usually get hit with a 3% fee when used abroad, like in Greece, won’t get hit, because it goes to Curve first in GBP!

That’s right, you can earn 1000’s of points abroad without paying any silly fees to earn them. If you already have Curve skip on, but if you don’t, go here and enter C5CFD to get your £5 free when you sign up for the card. It’s free and we get a £5 too, so coffee on us! *terms and conditions apply to that free coffee* ; )

Once You’re In

Once you’re in the Curve app and have received your sharp looking Curve Mastercard, you need to load a credit card or debit card to get fully set up.

From that point on, you can use Curve to spend on all your cards, just by using the app. Switching between your linked cards on Curve takes a mere second in the app.

If for example you loaded a NatWest credit or debit card, you could immediately spend on that by using your Curve card. Just select it in the app, and actually tap it, just like the finger says to officially select it. To get your £5 free, you just need to make a normal purchase with the Curve Card.

Spend Some Dough

Now that the card is selected, just go to your favorite supermarket, bar, coffee shop, clothing shop or any place you spend money, and spend some money using one of your linked credit or debit cards via your Curve card.

Your first Curve transaction MUST be done using chip & pin – aka entering your pass code, but then each transaction thereafter can be done using contactless. Curve Card has standard contactless limits, which are currently £45 in the UK.

Once you’ve done your first chip & pin transaction with a linked credit or debit card, you can switch over to your rewards on the Curve Card. Every time you refer someone, you’ll get another £5 when they make their first purchase and of course, they get £5 too, so it can be the gift that keeps on giving.

Cash In Rewards

If you want to know how much money you have in Curve Rewards, just swipe over the Curve Rewards part of your wallet, where you’ll see your rewards balance. If you don’t want to use it, be careful not to tap the card and select it. You can only spend amounts less than the rewards balance, if you select that as your payment method.

Read as: when you earn a referral to Curve Card, you’ll see £5 in your rewards, rather than 500 Points.

You can’t go over with your Curve Card Rewards purchase, otherwise it’ll be declined, or put onto a different linked card, so the best thing to do is spend just under, or make an even £5 transaction. Or better yet, refer a bunch of friends and build a balance!

There’s nothing wrong with asking the bar man to put £5 on the card and the rest in cash. Again, for everyone you refer, who then gets the card and does the same, it’s another fiver for you. That can add up nicely!

To use your “free” Curve Rewards cash, just switch from your linked credit or debit card to ‘Curve Rewards’ and tap the Curve Rewards card in the app and make your transaction, just like you did above. When you’re out of free rewards, don’t forget to switch back to another card afterwards!

Do you use Curve? Don’t forget to enter C5CFD as your referral!