The ever-popular American Express Shop Small promotion is back for another round, with offers available on both the mainline American Express cards and Scotiabank-issued American Express cards.
If you have a Scotiabank-issued American Express credit card, you can register and earn a $10 credit upon spending $30 (all figures in CAD) at Shop Small merchants up to five times, for a total of up to $50 in statement credits.
As a reminder, Amex-issued American Express cardholders may register their card and then earn a $5 statement credit upon spending $10 with a participating Shop Small merchant, up to five times in total on each eligible card, for a total of up to $25 in statement credits.
Scotiabank Amex Shop Small: Earn Up to $50 in Statement Credits
The Shop Small promotion has just landed for Scotiabank-issued American Express cards, and it’s even more generous than the ongoing Shop Small offer available for Amex-issued Amex cards.
The American Express Shop Small promotion is available at designated physical storefronts across Canada, as well as participating online small businesses nationwide.
If you have a Scotiabank-issued Amex card, head to the dedicated landing page and look for the Shop Small logo.
From there, click “Register your Card”, and proceed through the steps.
Once you’ve registered, you can earn up to $50 in statement credits, structured as “Spend $30, Get $10”, up to five times.
Importantly, there’s a limit of just 10,000 registrations for this offer, so it’s worth loading up the offer on your card(s) as soon as possible before it fills up.
You have until December 31, 2023, to earn up to $50 in statement credits, which leaves plenty of time to get up to 33% back on up to five transactions at Shop Small merchants.
Amex Shop Small: Earn Up to $25 in Statement Credits
As a reminder, there’s an ongoing Shop Small offer available for Amex-issued Amex cards.
For Amex-issued Amex cards, you can earn up to $25 in statement credits with the ongoing Shop Small promotion, which is structured as “Spend $10, Get $5”, up to five times.
To register for Shop Small, sign in to your American Express account, and scroll down to the Amex Offers section.
If your card has the Shop Small offer available, simply click “Register your Card”, and you’re all set.
Once you’ve registered, you can take advantage of the “Spend $10, Get $5” offer up to five times at any participating Shop Small retailer in Canada, for a total of up to $25 in statement credits.
There’s a limit of 15,000 registrations for this offer, so it’s worth registering your cards as soon as possible before it fills up.
If you have the offer loaded on your card(s), you have until November 30, 2023, to earn up to 50% off five transactions at Shop Small merchants.
How Does Amex Shop Small Work?
Once you’ve loaded up the Shop Small offer, you can use the Amex Shop Small Map to look up the participating retailers by filtering for the “Shop Small” icon.
You’ll find a list of participating locations in your city, which are all marked with a blue dot or location marker.
You can also browse a list of Shop Small retailers, which includes in-store and online locations. There are quite a few registered charities on this list, so if you have any spare credits by the end of November, you could consider making a $10 donation to these charities and benefiting from both a $5 statement credit and a tax receipt.
The Shop Small promotion is intended to reward you for shopping five separate times at five different Shop Small retailers. To that end, the terms for the Amex-issued cards state:
To be eligible for a $5 (CAD) statement credit, a qualifying purchase of at least $10 (CAD) in a single transaction, after taxes, must be charged to your registered Card at up to 5 different participating locations in Canada, during the offer period and subsequently posted to your account. A qualifying purchase of at least $10 (CAD) in a single transaction that is made directly at a different participating business or different location of the same participating business will qualify for one $5 (CAD) statement credit, up to a total of 5 statement credits or a maximum of $25 (CAD) in statement credits per registered Card during the offer period. One or more purchases made directly at the same business location or the same online business will only be eligible to qualify for one $5 (CAD) statement credit.
And the terms for the Scotiabank-issued Amex cards state:
A qualifying purchase of at least $30 (CAD) in a single transaction that is made directly at a different participating business or different location of the same participating business will qualify for one $10 (CAD) statement credit, up to a total of 5 statement credits or a maximum of $50 (CAD) in statement credits per registered Card during the offer period. One or more purchases made directly at the same participating business location or the same participating online business will only be eligible to qualify for one $10 (CAD) statement credit.
Therefore, you’ll most likely need to shop with five separate Shop Small merchants to get the full $25 or $50 in statement credits, respectively.
However, if you or your household members hold multiple Amex-issued American Express or Scotiabank-issued Amex cards and have registered all of them, you could always split up a larger transaction into multiple payments on separate cards, thus triggering one of the five $5–10 credits for each card used.
If you happen to overburden your cashier or waiter during the process of splitting up a large bill, remember to leave a generous tip (perhaps using yet another American Express card from your pack)!
Conclusion
American Express Shop Small has returned yet again, allowing you to earn up to $25 in statement credits when shopping with one of your Amex-issued American Express cards, and up to $50 in statement credits with your Scotiabank-issued Amex cards.
This is an easy opportunity to earn $25–50 back when getting coffee and ice cream, and you can scale these earnings with other cardholders in your household.
Go forth and register all the eligible American Express cards you can get your hands on – and then get spending!
