The Upside App
If you have listen to the actual radio recently you have probably heard the ads for the Upside App. Always talking about how you can save on gas. Now, I work from home and don’t drive that much, but I am always down to save. After hearing about this app so much, I started asking everyone if they have downloaded and was using it or knew of any. No one around me had done so yet
I decided to bite the bullet and download the app and give it a try. Now I use it all the time. You not only save on gas, but you can save at some grocery stores and at some restaruants.
Now the first thing I will tell you about this app is that you do have to list and “connect” at least one credit and/or debit card. I understand that this isn’t something everyone likes to do and I completely understand.
Once you have a card connected, or two or more, connected, that is the card you will want to use when using the app.
How do you use the app and save money? I’m getting to that point. When I know I am going to need gas, I open the app and look at what stations around me participate with the app. Most of them them do, but sometimes I may have to drive past the closest gas station to the one a few more blocks down. You click on the station that you are going to get gas at. Once you click on it you have a certain amount of time to go get the gas and claim your discount. You don’t see money off at the pump. You build a cash value in the app that you can cash out at any time.
For example, I just recently needed to get gas, I maybe put gas in my vehicle 2 times a month, depending on how much driving I actually do. I check the app and while the closest gas station to my house doesn’t participate, the one just a little further down does. I click that I’m going there and I go put gas in my vehicle, using one of the credit cards I have connected to the app. When I’m done I then go back into the app and click I’m done. Sometimes it will have upload a copy of the receipt and sometimes it doesn’t. I haven’t figured out rhyme or reason to when it does need one or doesn’t. This time it didn’t need me to.
A day later, I have a message from the app that I earned $1.10 on the $30.00 in gas I put in my vehicle. That $1.10 in in my “wallet” in the app that I can cash out anytime I want. I like to let it build.
You can do the same with some grocery stores and restaurants. You simply click you are going there, you have a time limit of 3 or 4 hours and then you click you are done and it will ask for a receipt.
If the grocery store you are going to has pick up available, you can use it for that also, but not for third party pick up or shopping.
I have used the app about 4 or 5 times so far and have $20 in my wallet. As I said, I’m letting it build.
You can download the app from this link and yes I will earn a bonus from you signing up and you can also when you share the app link it gives you to share. https://upside.app.link/TONYA525339
Feel free to ask any question you may have over the app or anything else I have written about.
