FreeCharge announced a 2 day cashback bonanza for consumers across its merchant network. The sale is live on 11th and 12th of December 2016 and aims at promoting the usage of digital payment methods in the wake of the government’s move to incentivize cashless transactions.
A user can garner a FLAT 100% cashback for 2 transactions per day by paying through his FreeCharge wallet, with a cap of Rs 100 cashback per day. With this sale FreeCharge has become the only wallet to offer a FLAT 100% cashback, while other players are offering upto 100% cashback which essentially means 100% cashback only for a limited set of merchants and a lower cashback percentage for others.
Merchant | Paytm Offer | FC Offer |
Swiggy | No Offer | 100% off upto 100/no minimum amount required |
Zomato | No offer | 100% off upto 100/no minimum amount required |
Foodpanda | Upto 50% Off , min Rs 5 | 100% off upto 100/no minimum amount required |
CCD | 15% off upto 100 / Min of 300 required | 100% off upto 100/no minimum amount required |
Barista | Free Cappucino on a min order of 300 | 100% off upto 100/no minimum amount required |
Beer Café | 15% cashback | 100% off upto 100/no minimum amount required |
Shoppers Stop | NA | 100% off upto 100/no minimum amount required |
Hypercity | NA | 100% off upto 100/no minimum amount required |
Mcdonalds | NA | 100% off upto 100/no minimum amount required |
Crossword | NA | 100% off upto 100/no minimum amount required |
Vishal Megamart | NA | 100% off upto 100/no minimum amount required |
Lite Bite food (Mumbai & Delhi airport outlets) | NA | 100% off upto 100/no minimum amount required |
TFS (Chennai & Kolkata airports) | NA | 100% off upto 100/no minimum amount required |
bookmyshow | No offer | 100% off upto 100/no minimum amount required |
The offer will be in addition to all the existing offers being run by FreeCharge. In case of both existing and sale offer being applicable, the consumer will get the benefit associated with the superior offer.
There also an offer of flat cashback of INR20 on mobile recharges of INR20.
Consumers can avail this offer at merchants across categories like foodpanda, Domino’s, Swiggy, Zomato, Haldiram’s, Mcdonalds, Cafe Coffee Day, Barista for Food; bookmyshow, ticketnew.com, Hungama music for entertainment; Hypercity, Snapdeal, Crossword, Shoppers Stop, Pantaloons, Vishal Mega Mart for shopping and redbus, goibibo, Meru, Jugnoo, OYO for travel.
Speaking on the same, Govind Rajan, CEO, Freecharge said, “The holiday season is upon us and we would like to add some cashless FreeCharge cheer to the weekend as well. At FreeCharge are committed to ensure our consumers never run out of reasons to go cashless and what better than a flat 100% cashback!”
To avail the offer, the payment should completely be made using the FreeCharge wallet. The offer is not applicable on payments made via QR code or send money option. The cashback will be credited within 24 hours, calculated on the net order amount post partial cancellations or refunds. The cashback will be credited in the form of e-voucher in the FreeCharge account which will be valid for a period of 6 months. The offer won’t be applicable for transactions on Helpchat and Irctc.