I was told about Ibotta almost a year ago. Like most, I didn't really understand what I needed to do and at the time the offers were mostly items that I did not purchase. After downloading it to my Android cell phone, I messed around with it and then forgot about it. It wasn't until months later that I really understood how to use the application and start earning some money.
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At the time of downloading the application to my phone, I didn't know that it was a fairly new app and was still developing. Since then it is not only able to be used for your grocery store purchases, but at restaurants, movie theaters, pet stores, home improvement stores, and even more.
Once you understand how to use Ibotta, you can earn money. Here's some shots of the application on my Andriod.
This is what it will look like when you log in to the application on your phone. At the time of taking these pictures, these were the different categories that you could earn money from. According to their
Facebook page, they might be adding some clothing stores in the future.
Here's an updated look at the categories Ibotta currently offers (October 2015). There are a few new categories and a few that are gone.
These are the ways that you can redeem your earnings. When I first joined, PayPal was the only way you could get your earnings. I have cashed out some of my earnings via a Regal gift card so that we could take Michael to see Frozen. It was really easy to redeem and the gift card was emailed to me within a matter of minutes!
Here's an updated list of ways to redeem your earnings (October 2015). A lot more gift cards and they seem to be adding new ones all the time.
Let's get started on how to actually use this app to earn some money. Generally, Monday morning is when new offers appear. Here's a step by step on how to earn money for buying a gallon of milk.
You'll want to click on Grocery.
Find the grocery store that you shop at and click on it. We get our milk at Wegmans so, that's what I will click on. Generally the milk offer is available for all the grocery stores that they are partners with.
This is what your offers will look like. Just so happens, the milk offer is on the first screen. Once you find an offer that you're interested in, click on it.
To earn your $0.50 for you milk, you have to preform some tasks. I love these kind of offers because you can get any brand - doesn't matter! Another thing that they sometimes have, is bonuses. With the milk bonus if you redeem two other offers, you'll receive an additional $0.50!
The first task was a "How to" task. Read and then click the Learn and Unlock button. Now you have $0.25. Time to click on the next task. It's a getting acquainted task. Answer the question and then click on the Answer and Unlock button.
Now you're good to go for when you buy your milk. You want to do this for all the offers you're interested in. All you have to do is go to the store that you did your offers through and purchase those items. Here's what you do after you get home from the store.
Log in and click on Redeem.
Click on the store that you purchased the items from.
Now you have to verify the items. Helpful tip - leave the items and the receipt close by. Click on Verify Items.
These are all the offers that I've done tasks for. Click on the item that you are verifying. In this case, it's the one gallon white milk.
It will take you to a bar code scanner. It scanned the milk too fast so I wasn't able to to get a picture of it, but what you'll do is scan this bar code on the item you're redeeming.
The item has been verified. Go through the same steps if you have more items to verify. Once you have verified all your items, click on the Verify button at the bottom.
You will now have to submit your receipt. There are some stores, I haven't run across them though, that you don't have to do this step. Click on Submit Receipt.
You're now going to take a picture of your receipt. Make sure the whole receipt is in the picture.
Click Capture. Then click Submit.
You will then get this message. I then received an email in the matter of a few hours saying that I had earned the $0.50.
I really like this app and love the fact that it's not a coupon. You're earning money for things that you were going to buy anyways. I must also say that their customer service is awesome! I was trying to do one of my tasks which required me to send out a tweet through Twitter and it would not go through. For a week, I tried to send out this tweet and kept getting an error. I sent in a report about it and was contact quickly and received credit for the task.
Now you've seen how Ibotta works. All you have to do is
click here to get started!
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