Bilt Rewards app adds live award availability powered by Point.me

Bilt Rewards and Level.me are two helpful packages that entered the award journey area inside the previous couple of years. Bilt Rewards is the reward program of the Bilt Mastercard®, which helps you to earn factors paying lease. In the meantime, Point.me aggregates award searches from many airline loyalty packages into one record of outcomes.

You’ll be able to sync your loyalty accounts with Level.me to get recommendations for utilizing your present factors and miles to e-book award flights. Level.me has lengthy supported main transferable currencies, equivalent to Chase Ultimate Rewards and American Express Membership Rewards, however not Bilt Rewards — till this yr.

Earlier this month, Level.me added assist for looking Bilt Rewards and its switch companions. And Wednesday, Bilt introduced a brand new integration with Level.me. Here is what you want to know.

Associated: Should you use the Bilt Mastercard? Why it’s a game changer for renters

Use Level.me within the Bilt app

Bilt members can now take pleasure in what Bilt calls “the Bilt Switch Companions expertise” by utilizing a Level.me-powered search within the Bilt app. Now you may see real-time award availability for all of the airline packages to which you’ll transfer Bilt points. Specifically, you will see availability for:

To seek for award flights with these companions, log in to your Bilt Rewards app and navigate to the “Rewards” display. Choose the “Journey” tab, faucet on “Flights” after which “Switch Companions.” You may see a display on which you’ll enter your origin, vacation spot, departure date, return date (if desired), variety of passengers and desired cabin class.

When you faucet “Search,” you will get a display with outcomes.

When you discover an award flight you need to e-book, you may switch Bilt factors to the award program of your selection from throughout the Bilt app.

Bilt members can proceed to make use of the Level.me web site as standard (with the addition of Bilt Rewards as a switch associate) after subscribing to a Level.me plan or shopping for a day move. And the advantage of doing so will likely be that you will additionally see outcomes from packages that are not Bilt switch companions. However now Bilt members needn’t pay for a Level.me day move or subscription in the event that they solely need to search throughout the airline loyalty packages that associate with Bilt Rewards.

Solely lively Bilt members can use the built-in Level.me award search within the Bilt Rewards app. I am not an lively member, as I do not pay lease and have not seen a motive so as to add the Bilt Mastercard to my pockets. So, I couldn’t see any outcomes after downloading the Bilt Rewards app, creating an account and making an attempt a search question.

Associated: How long do Bilt Rewards points take to transfer?

Since this submit is about Bilt, I ought to point out that some Bilt members have just lately skilled fraudulent fees on their Bilt Mastercard. Credit card fraud is not unusual, however one TPG staffer reported, “Everybody I do know with the cardboard has had a problem, each inside and out of doors the award journey world.” In an announcement to Frequent Miler, Bilt Rewards famous that is the results of “BIN assaults” whereby randomly generated card numbers are used to make fraudulent purchases.

I would not let this credit card fraud preserve me from signing up for a Bilt Mastercard if I felt it was the proper card for me. Once more, fraudulent fees are comparatively widespread, although we’re undecided how widespread the Bilt assault is. As long as you control your account transactions and carry multiple cards, the latest fraud points needs to be a minor inconvenience.

Regardless, when you’ve got a Bilt Mastercard in your pockets, preserve extra-close watch over your account and report any fraudulent transactions as quickly as you see them.

Associated: Credit card fraud vs. identity theft — how to know the difference

After all, you will need to verify all of your redemption choices earlier than transferring Bilt Rewards factors to an airline associate. In some instances, you could discover that redeeming Bilt Rewards points for journey by way of the Bilt Rewards travel portal supplies higher worth. Once you e-book journey by way of the portal, you will get a redemption worth of 1.25 cents per level. It is also price contemplating the worth of non-airline Bilt Rewards switch companions, equivalent to World of Hyatt, the place it is common to get 2 or extra cents per level in worth on lodge stays.