Save yourself the time of remembering all of your frequent flyer program numbers, expiration dates, and accumulated miles and points by using Award Wallet. This free website lets you create an account to store all of your miles and awards program information in one place.
How It Works
You begin by creating a simple login name and password with Award Wallet. You’ll be able to choose from most of airline frequent flyer, hotel, car rental, and credit card reward programs. Award Wallet interfaces with each reward program and by entering in your program username and password will update all of your information automatically.
- Award Wallet gives you the option of saving your passwords with them or locally on your computer. I recommend keeping your passwords locally if it’s your computer only.
You’ll also be able to enter other information like email notifications when you reach a certain point or mile goal you’ve set and will be emailed 90 days in advance of when your miles for a particular program are about to expire. (The free version of Award Wallet only supports 3 expiration notices however.)
Award Wallet Interface
There isn’t anything fancy about the interface, it’s simple to navigate and lists the programs as well as points and miles you’ve racked up. You can also redeem your points through Award Wallet which will pull helpful information like how many more miles you’ll need to take the trip to Argentina. There is also a forum where members can list deals they’ve come across and ‘connections’ so you can share some of your information with friends.
- There are two versions of Award Wallet; the free one and then Award Wallet Plus. Aside from getting an unlimited number of expiration notices (instead of just 3 for the free version) Award Wallet Plus lets you record and pull more information from each reward program. (You get to set the price for an Award Wallet Plus subscription.) For most travelers though, the free version of Award Wallet will suit the basic purpose.
A Useful Web Tool
I wasn’t paid to write about Award Wallet, I just thought it was a useful website that will make life a bit easier for travelers. One big mistake most travelers make is not using mile or awards programs at all, or neglecting to include their information when booking a flight or hotel. The more programs you sign up with the hard it becomes to keep track of each one. I’m always fumbling to find specific reward program numbers myself. Award Wallet is free to use and is an excellent tool to use in conjunction with the Frequent Flyer Master eBook.
Nice site. Thanks for the recommendation!
If you end up checking it out Daniel, feel free to come back and leave your thoughts on Award Wallet.
As convenient as it sounds, I’m not sure I’d like to give out personal information if I can help it. I guess I’ve developed more privacy concerns regarding information held by organisations.
I’m suspicious in general when it comes to giving out my personal information although with millage stuff not as much. I also hold companies to their word:
http://www.awardwallet.com/privacy.php
Wonder if there’s a desktop app that does something like this…
Without that privacy page I bet they would have gotten very few sign-ups. Sounds like a great site. I’ll definitely consider it once I start travelling more and can benefit from different reward programs.
I’ve got an interview with the creators coming up next week on the Tech Guide For Travel and will be sure to ask about security.
Looks like a great tool. Giving out personal info is also concerning though to me. Not that my frequent flier info is a major security concern – however passwords are obviously concerning. When you save them on locally on your computer I’m assuming that if you forget the password that you are out of luck and they can’t send you what it is if it’s forgotten…correct?
No, you can always reset them on the mile program website (i.e. Star Alliance, etc.). I always use different passwords for different applications (saving them on my computer using KeePassX – it’s free) so if one account gets compromised the others are insulated a bit.
Ohhhh. this is awesome! This is exactly what i need, seriously! I was just thinking the other day that I had to make an excel spreadsheet – this is better!
I will check it out hopefully today and give you some feedback.
Sherry, as far as passwords, I usually write them in an email to myself. That way if I’m traveling I can just log into my email and find them.
Thanks Bethany – I’m in so many programs keeping track of them is very difficult. I think I’ll also make better use by seeing them on a more regular basis.
As for the passwords, check out KeePassX, you can use it on a USB stick if you’re not traveling with a laptop. That way if your email address is compromised your other passwords aren’t either.
Boy do I need this tool. Keeping up with ff award miles takes up too much time. I’ll be interested to read your interview with the Award Wallet creators at Tech Guide for Travel, especially about the security issue.
Also, thanks for the heads up on KeePassX. You’re teaching me a lot today.
I’m with you Donna, I can never find my point program numbers. It’s such a pain to keep track of them, Award Wallet has helped me to be a bit more organized as well. I’ll be posting the interview on Tuesday btw…
What a sensible and simple application. Time to check it out some more.
I love it. In fact the hardest thing about using it is finding the award program account numbers themselves. Something that’s always takes me much longer than it should.
Hi everyone, just wanted to let you know about an interview I posted about Award Wallet. The creators Todd and Alexi answered some of your security and feature questions on the Tech Guide For Travel:
http://www.techguidefortravel.com/2010/02/23/a-few-questions-about-award-wallets-security-and-features-answered/
This is great but I guess I can’t allow someone to invade my privacy. Nice post though!
It’s not really an invasion if you sign up for it I suppose. I don’t see it as too much different than getting an email account with a host that you don’t control (i.e. Gmail, Hotmail, etc.) they’ve got quite a bit of information about you sitting on their servers and every email you’ve ever sent.
I can see the value of this because just last year I nearly lost 90,000 miles with USAir because I’d had no activity on the account for 18 months. Fortunately, I caught it in time. Award Wallet might be a handy tool to try ut, although like the other commenters, I am really concerned about password security. I’ll check out your post on the tech site for more info.
I love the email reminder feature. Makes you wonder why the mile programs don’t automatically do that…oh yea, I know why :S
Great site – thanks for the recommendation Anil. I definitely am one of those who doesn’t keep good enough track of the miles I COULD be earning and I bet it results in quite a big loss overall.
Cheers!
Kathryn
Seeing the numbers on Award Wallet more frequently makes me think of them more. I was surprised how many ‘random’ points I had earned from airlines I rarely fly. One of my goals this year is to use my miles more efficiently. I figure I do travel enough, I should be able to get some goodies out of all the accumulated points!
That’s a really cool idea! Right now I only use frequent flier miles for Continental since that’s the airline I primarily fly with, but in my last few trips I have had to fly with other airlines that had better times/dates (and one was a work trip where I didn’t have a say in it). I can’t see this being a huge help to people with just one account, but if I start using frequent flier programs for more than one airline, I think it would be super convenient to be able to manage them all at one place (and be notified when I’m about to lose them!).
Hi Emily, I signed up for everything years ago and even forget I have active accounts with some programs. It’s so hard to juggle them all…if it weren’t for the rewards it would be such a hassle to manage all of the point programs.
Love this! I agree with some of the questions and concerns about privacy. I weekly get so many emails, newsletters, statements, etc. about my awards accounts and this seems to simplify. Would be curious if they have a mobile app in the works.
Hi Spencer, yes a mobile app is in the works. Here’s a bit more about the security and privacy in a follow up interview I did with the creators:
http://www.techguidefortravel.com/2010/02/23/a-few-questions-about-award-wallets-security-and-features-answered/
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I was searching the web, looking for n application that does keep track of our Flyer Miles and here I found you!!Thanks for sharing and for the helpful post 🙂
haha, awesome! I think you’ll find Awardwallet incredibly useful 🙂 A while back I got some free upgrade codes and they might be all used up by other readers but worth a shot to make it even *more* useful:
Type: free-amqrmr in Awardwallet coupon and you might get a free bump to a Pro account 🙂
Embarrassingly, I’ve been traveling for close to 8 years without ever getting my head around how frequent flyer points. Hopefully this will help me start being more organized!
I’ve got a few other posts on it if you need more help getting started – but AwardWallet is a great help. Also, you can redeem the last 18 months of flights on Star Alliance and 12 (I believe) with OneWorld so you may have some points already!