Earning points

You earn rewards points on your eligible spend. Depending on which rewards program you have selected, you can earn either Macquarie Rewards points or Qantas Frequent Flyer points.

Eligible purchases exclude cash advances, balance transfers or other restricted transactions detailed in the Macquarie Rewards Program Terms and Conditions and the Macquarie Qantas Rewards Program Terms and Conditions.  

Eligible purchases include those made by the primary cardholder and any additional cardholders on the credit card account.

The points earn rate on eligible spend differs between the Macquarie Platinum and Macquarie Black cards.

 Macquarie Platinum CardMacquarie Black Card
Macquarie Rewards

Every dollar spent on eligible purchases earns 1.25 Macquarie Reward points.

Macquarie Reward points are earned on up to $200,000 of spend annually on the Macquarie Platinum Card. 

Every dollar spent on eligible purchases earns 2 Macquarie Reward points.

Macquarie Reward points have no points cap on the Macquarie Black Card.

Qantas Frequent Flyer Rewards

Every dollar spent on eligible purchases earns 1 Qantas Frequent Flyer point up to $1,000 spent per statement period, then 0.5 Qantas Frequent Flyer points for the remainder of that statement period.

Every dollar spent on eligible purchases earns 1 Qantas Frequent Flyer point up to $4,000 spent per statement period, then 0.5 Qantas Frequent Flyer points for the remainder of that statement period.

 

Earning points overseas

You’ll continue to earn points per Australian dollar spent on eligible purchases while travelling overseas.

To learn more about eligible purchases, see How do I earn points? and Can I earn points on all transactions on my credit card?

You’re unable to earn points of the following transactions: 

  • GST and government charges, including fines paid to any government agency
  • payments made to the Australian Tax Office
  • interest and other bank fees and charges, including any GST payable on any of these
  • BPAY® payments, such as bill payments and other payments made through the BPAY Electronic Payments Scheme
  • cash advances
  • transactions for items that are directly convertible to cash, including, but not limited to, purchase of foreign currency and travellers cheques, or cash equivalent transactions
  • balance transfers
  • transactions deemed by us to be for operating a business or in connection with business expenditure
  • transactions that are reversed, such as refunds
  • payments for credit card protection insurance
  • transactions used for gambling purposes, including gambling chip and lottery ticket purchases.

Refunded purchases

If your account is credited with a refund from a merchant, the equivalent number of points will be deducted from your account.

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