Earn 60,000 points with the Marriott Bonvoy^® Business American Express^® Card

Marriott Bonvoy is the largest hotel group around the world with over 8,000 properties. Marriott Bonvoy has partnered with American Express to offer two credit cards in Canada:

• One for individuals: the Marriott Bonvoy^® American Express^®* Card.
• One for businesses (professionals, the self-employed and SMEs): the Marriott Bonvoy^® Business American Express^®* Card.

Unlike the personal version which has only 2 purchase categories, our Marriott Bonvoy Business American Express Card has a 3^rd category allowing us to earn 3 Marriott Bonvoy points per dollar on:

• All our travel purchases (hotels, flights, car rentals, cruises, etc.)
• All our gas purchases
• All our restaurant and bar bills

Add to that all the other purchases a company can make! On our side, for example :

• Membership in a professional order (the Ordre des Pharmaciens du Québec accepts payment by American Express card via Paypal)
• Service subscriptions (telephone/Internet, online accounting software, Google Apps, iCloud, etc.)
• Our hardware
• Our office supplies
• And much more!

For everything else, we use our Marriott Bonvoy^® Business American Express^®* Card on PaySimply to pay other suppliers.

Some of our PaySimply expenses:

• Canada Revenue Agency
• Revenu Québec
• GST / QST
• Accountant
• Website development agency
• External consultants
• And much more!

We stay very regularly at Marriott Bonvoy Group hotels and use our Marriott Bonvoy^® Business American Express^®* Card to pay for these stays (when we’re not using our points).

By doing so, you earn 5 Marriott Bonvoy points per dollar! And this applies to any spending made in a Marriott Bonvoy-owned establishment:

• hotel stays
• in-house services (business center, spa, etc.)
• meeting room rental
• event organization
• restaurants, bars

So by using your Marriott Bonvoy Business American Express Card to pay for them, you too could earn 5 Marriott Bonvoy points per dollar!

Each year, our Marriott Bonvoy^® Business American Express^®* Card provides us with a 15 elite nights credit to our Marriott Bonvoy account.

With this, one immediately obtains the Silver Elite status, which gives the right to :

• Priority late departure
• 10% bonus points on stays
• Free Wi-Fi

Also, these 15 elite nights allow us to advance more quickly to the next status. As a result, only 10 nights (25 nights) are required to achieve Gold Elite status.

Gold Elite status includes :

• 25% bonus points on stays
• Upgrade to a superior room
• Late check-out until 2 pm

Or Platinum Elite status – only 35 nights left in the year (50 nights total).

With Platinum Elite status, you benefit from a host of advantages, including :

• 5 Nightly Upgrade Awards
• Lounge Access
• Free breakfasts

Six to eight weeks after the anniversary date of the American Express card account, we get a certificate for a free night. It is deposited directly into our Marriott Bonvoy account.

This certificate can be exchanged for a free night worth up to 35,000 points. What’s more, you can combine up to 15,000 points to get a free night worth up to 50,000 points.

Used properly, this certificate can represent several hundred dollars!

Take a look at what we were able to get recently during a trip to Europe. A 4-star hotel on the Promenade des Anglais in Nice that would have cost more than C$500 a night!

Did you know? The annual fee for your corporate credit card is considered a “management and administration fee“.

So they can be deducted from your return on line 8871, if you use your Marriott Bonvoy Business American Express Card for business expenses!

Don’t hesitate to consult your tax advisor!

This card is not exclusively reserved for executives of large companies.

In fact, as long as you have an activity that generates income or business expenses, you may be eligible for this card.

This is the case, for example, for professionals or self-employed workers who declare their business income and expenses in their annual personal income tax return to Revenu Québec or the Canada Revenue Agency.

We could add to all this the range of benefits offered to American Express members (such as Front of the Line), regular promotional offers – now available online – or even the travel insurance offered by the card.

In short, all these reasons make the Marriott Bonvoy^MD Business American Express^MD* Card, in our opinion, the best credit card for professionals, self-employed workers or SMEs in Canada!

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