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Traveloka Mandiri Card vs other credit cards, which is better?
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owadays, traveling seems to have become a staple leisure activity for a majority of people, including Indonesians. With many methods out there you can use to pay for your travel accommodations, choosing the most beneficial payment instrument becomes vital.
Compared to other credit cards, Traveloka Mandiri Card – a joint venture between travel service app Traveloka and state-owned Bank Mandiri – is the most beneficial one for discerned travelers, offering various conveniences and perks for its users.
Easy registration
First of all, opening a Traveloka Mandiri Card account is very easy and practical: you can do it anytime, anywhere.
To register, you can simply use your internet connection to access the Traveloka app (through the traveloka.com/en/traveloka-mandiri-card landing page) or the Bank Mandiri website round the clock and follow the instructions there.
To register for your own Traveloka Mandiri Card, please note that you also have to prepare your own selfie for facial recognition, ID card and income documents, as mentioned in both Traveloka and Bank Mandiri’s webpage.
Other than that, the registration process is easy, practical, convenient and secure. It takes only 15 minutes to complete, with all cybersecurity measures applied by Traveloka and Bank Mandiri so that you do not have to worry that your personal data will be stolen for other purposes.
Whereas the registration process of other credit cards can be more complicated, less convenient, with less elaborate cybersecurity measures can that lead to your personal data being stolen by third parties.
If you are curious to find out more about Traveloka’s data security mechanisms, visit traveloka.com/secure.
Afterward, just wait patiently for the verification process, which takes 14 days on average, before you can activate your card.
Easy transactions with easy benefits
Upon activating your card, you can complete your transactions easily using the Traveloka Mandiri Card, along with all its additional benefits. First of all, the card is not limited for domestic transactions only; you can use it for international transactions with competitive foreign rates.
Traveloka also has a loyalty program called the Traveloka points, collected each time you use the application’s services, which you can redeem to get products and services. For instance, once you collect 8,000 points, the amount is equal to a one-time free flight to Bali.
Just by activating & transacting your card, you are entitled to a welcome bonus worth up to Rp 1 million (US$70.10; equal to 10,000 Traveloka points) upon your first transaction. Well, just by using your welcome bonus, you can get free one-time flight to Bali!
As if this is not enough, Traveloka Mandiri Card also exempts you of its annual fee for your first year of membership, so you can enjoy it for free.
In addition to that, you can obtain one Traveloka point for every transaction worth Rp 8,000 (or equal to that in foreign currency) spent anywhere in any online or offline merchants. Users will also obtain double points whenever they buy flight tickets and hotel rooms using the Traveloka platform.
Users will get a 10 percent discount every day for Traveloka Xperience products. The card also gives you access to all Bank Mandiri and Visa promos.
The Traveloka Mandiri Card can be used on more than 10,000 merchants around the world that accept Visa. Furthermore, the card has also been equipped with Visa’s contactless technology, which makes it easy for users to enjoy Visa’s tap-and-go feature for almost all merchants in Indonesia and abroad.
If you have not heard of it already, Visa’s contactless feature allows users to simply tap into their transactions, without requiring them to enter PIN or input their digital signature when making transactions worth less than Rp 1 million. Do not worry about security issues as the contactless feature also makes use of security technology features also utilized by other Visa chip-based cards.
You can also earn Traveloka loyalty points from your international transactions. The card has also been aligned with Bank Mandiri’s online banking application, so you can use the latter to monitor all transactions abroad on a real-time basis.
Easy travel
It is fair to say that the Traveloka Mandiri Card belongs to Indonesia’s millennial generation. How so?
The millennial generation has turned traveling into mainstream leisure activity, and the card gives them convenient traveling thanks, again, to the perks that they offer.
First of all, users will get free travel insurance, up to Rp 1 billion covering flight delays, baggage delays, as well as products purchased abroad – all matters related to millennial generation lifestyle, by using the card. Save the hassle of going to travel agents to purchase travel insurances.
Second, users will obtain loyalty points which they can redeem in various airlines and hotels.
Other credit cards typically allow users to redeem their points in one airline or one hotel chain only. Yet the Traveloka Mandiri Card adjusts its reward points system to allow millennials to personalize their accommodation choices.
This suits the needs of the members of the millennial generation, who are always on the look for the most affordable airlines and hotels whose availability also suits their traveling schedules.
In a nutshell, the Traveloka Mandiri Card is the most rewarding payment option to use to pay for your Traveloka transactions.
