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I’m delighted to launch an exclusive Head for Points sign-up bonus on the Capital on Tap Business Rewards Visa Credit Card.

This is the biggest exclusive credit card deal we have ever offered.

Here’s the one sentence summary:

Apply now and you will receive a sign-up bonus of 29,900 Capital on Tap points (worth 29,900 Avios or £299) as a HfP reader, for an annual fee of just £99.

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You receive 9,900 points after your first transaction – offsetting the annual fee – and a further 20,000 points when you spend £5,000 within three months of sign-up.

You can apply here (and only here – don’t use the standard Capital on Tap home page).

Do you qualify for this offer?

This offer is limited to readers who have a business which is run through a limited company or LLP.

At present, sole traders and regular partnerships cannot apply unfortunately.

How to apply for the Capital On Tap Business Rewards Visa

This special offer is exclusive to Head for Points readers.

You MUST apply via this special link.  Applications made via the standard Capital on Tap home page will not receive the extra bonus.

The closing date is 20th May 2021.

What is special about the Capital on Tap Business Rewards Visa card?

Apart from the huge sign-up bonus of 29,900 points (= 29,900 Avios or £299 cashback), there are four things about this card which make it stand out:

it is the ONLY Visa or Mastercard which allows a business to earn Avios

it is the only Avios-earning credit card, personal or business, which does not charge foreign exchange fees when used abroad

it is the only UK Avios partner which has virtually instantaneous transfers of points.  They reach your British Airways Executive Club account as soon as you instigate a transfer from your Capital on Tap account.

if you decide you don’t want any more Avios at any time, Capital on Tap will let you cash in your non-transferred points for 1p per point of real money

As you can see, it is an impressive package.

The annual fee for the card is just £99, which is tax deductible.  

Interest rate information:  Your interest rate is based on your business profile and can be as low as 9.9% APR.  The standard interest rate for marketing purposes is 39.9% APR.

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What is the exclusive Head for Points sign-up offer?

Between 20th April and 20th May, you will receive 29,900 Capital on Tap points (transferable into £299 of cashback or 29,900 Avios) when you sign up.

The bonus will arrive in two parts:

9,900 points will arrive soon after you have made your first transaction, which effectively covers your tax deductible £99 annual fee straight away

20,000 points will arrive when you spend £5,000 within three months of receiving the card

For clarity, you will keep the initial 9,900 points even if you fail to spend £5,000 to earn the additional 20,000 points bonus.  It is still worth applying even if you think that £5,000 of spending within three months won’t be possible.

What do I earn on my day to day spending?

Going forward, you earn 1 Capital on Tap point per £1 you spend.

These are redeemable for 1p cashback or 1 Avios per point.

As an added benefit, this is the ONLY Avios-earning credit card which does not charge foreign exchange fees when used abroad.  It is a great card to use if your business spends money outside the UK.

There is an annual fee of £99.

Who is Capital on Tap?

Whilst you may not have heard of Capital On Tap, it has provided over £2 billion of funding for over 120,000 UK businesses.  The company has recently expanded into Spain and the US.

They launched their Avios-earning Business Rewards Credit Cards in 2018 and they have been very popular with SME-owning Head for Points readers ever since.

Feedback on the company has been positive.  Head for Points has a dedicated point man who is able to help with any issues which readers may come across.

What other benefits do you get as a cardholder?

As well as a strong 1 point per £1 earning rate and the huge 29,900 points sign-up bonus, there are some other good benefits too:

20 free supplementary cards for your staff

a credit limit of up to £100,000

up to 56 days to pay before interest is incurred on card purchases when you repay in full

No FX fees and no UK ATM fees

account integrations with Sage, QuickBooks, Xero and more 

Who can apply?

To apply, you must have a UK limited company or LLP with turnover of £24,000+.

Sole traders and partnerships are not, unfortunately, able to apply at the present time.

Applicants must not have a CCJ against themselves or their business in the past 12 months.

Conclusion

If you have a limited company or LLP, you should have a serious look at Capital on Tap:

for the first year, it is a no-brainer – until 20th May, you are getting 29,900 Capital On Tap points, redeemable for £299 or 29,900 Avios, as a sign-up bonus in return for an annual fee of £99

you receive 9,900 points shortly after your first transaction, which instantly covers your annual fee for the first year

you have three months to spend the £5,000 required to receive the remaining 20,000 points

the £99 annual fee is a tax deductible expense so the net cost to you will be lower

even if you have a British Airways Accelerating Business American Express, American Express Business Platinum or American Express Business Gold, it is worth getting this card to use outside the UK and at places where Amex is not accepted

You MUST apply via this special link to qualify for the 29,900 points bonus.

The closing date is 20th May 2021.

If you have any questions, please post them in the comments below.  If we don’t know the answers we will feed them back to Capital on Tap and get back to you.

Disclaimer: Head for Points is a journalistic website. Nothing here should be construed as financial advice, and it is your own responsibility to ensure that any product is right for your circumstances. Recommendations are based primarily on the ability to earn miles and points and do not consider interest rates, service levels or any impact on your credit history.  By recommending credit cards on this site, I am – technically – acting as a credit broker.  Robert Burgess, trading as Head for Points, is regulated and authorised by the Financial Conduct Authority to act as a credit broker.

Comments (92)

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  • Freddy says:

    I recently incorporated in December – I’m sure previously you needed to be trading for 12 months, is this still the case?

    • Rob says:

      Rhys will check. It presumably depends if they verify your turnover figure by looking at filed accounts.

      • Jay says:

        Under micro accounts submission, I didn’t think turnover was shown on Companies House, only an abridged BS.

        • Rob says:

          Good point …

          That said, you can estimate it from creditors and debtors.

  • KBuffett says:

    It’s great that you have a dedicated contact that can assist with any issues that one may have. Perhaps you could request that from other sponsors in future too.

    Is this card issued and credit checked to the individual applying, or does that liability sit with the limited company?

    • Rob says:

      If it’s a HfP reader offer then there is always someone at the company we can get to fix things. If we are just writing about generic offers, eg the Amex Business one recently, we obviously don’t have that luxury.

  • Robin says:

    Wondering about the no FX fees … Do they use bank/spot conversion rates of exchange?

    • Rob says:

      The conversion is done by Visa, not COT, and so will use the published Visa FX rates for that day. These are marginally away from spot.

  • The Savage Squirrel says:

    The fact they allow Ltd’s only always makes me a bit nervous as a legacy sole trader that I’ll get booted at some stage -despite a flawless payment history – due to some T&C change. Hoping not as it’s a good product otherwise, other than their reluctance/refusal to raise my credit limit which is no longer adequate for our regular monthly cc expenses.

    • Rhys says:

      The Ltd requirement was introduced during Covid – hopefully it will be removed at some point.

  • MD says:

    Also keen to know this. If it works with Curve, and particularly if it works with Curve to HMRC.

    • Jamila says:

      It does, I paid all my corp and SA tax via curve to CoT last year and about to pay my corp for this year through the same method. You have to build up a decent limit with Curve first though.

    • Kevin C says:

      It works well with HMRC through Curve and paying a company SIPP to people in Bristol. I don’t do fancy black belt stuff with it, just genuine spends. I’ve had the card from the start and had no problems.

    • The Savage Squirrel says:

      +1. Works fine with Curve; this is just doing bog standard monthly PAYE bills. Wouldn’t try anything too “interesting” anyway as would make business an accounting nightmare and probably get booted by CoT rapidly.

  • N says:

    Sounds good, but I’m focusing on my Amex Bus Plat SUB for now.

    Bad timing from CoT imo.

    • Rob says:

      The timing is down to us. COT wanted to launch this earlier in the year but it would have clashed directly with the Amex offer so we pushed it back. I accept it isn’t ideal but I suspect most people who can do £10k of Amex spend could also manage £5k of Visa/MC spend. You can also stagger it by applying very close to 20th May.

  • L Allen says:

    It’s a shame they don’t do periodic offers for those who have been customers for years.

  • Chas says:

    I can confirm that it works well with curve for paying HMRC. However, a word of warning…. I used mine last year (have been a customer for 2+ years) behind curve to feed the Seagulls. Payment was successful, but my CoT card was subsequently blocked. I received a call from their customer services telling me in no uncertain terms that if I made any more payments like that my account would be closed….

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