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I have not paid for my flights for a while. This situation arises from two main reasons. Firstly, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, I did not travel from 2020 to 2022. Secondly, as an enthusiastic collector of air miles, I continued diligently amassing miles over the past few years though there wasn’t the opportunity to utilise them because of the pandemic. Subsequently, with the lifting of travel restrictions and the resumption of international travel, I find myself with a substantial cache of miles at my disposal, which I have been able to use to redeem for flights ever since. As anyone passionate about collecting miles would tell you, the trick to accumulating miles quickly is knowing how to maximise every dollar that you spend. This entails having an array of credit cards, and knowing when to use each card for the type of spending you make. The end goal is to ensure the highest possible miles earn rate for every dollar spent. For miles collectors, if they can earn 4 miles per $1 spent, they would never accept anything less. The challenge is that it takes research to learn and stay up to date with credit card terms and conditions, which include things like minimum spend, maximum miles earned per month, or making sure the store’s MCC matches the credit card’s required MCC, etc. And it doesn’t stop there. Once you accumulate enough miles, redeeming miles for a flight (AKA award booking) is another learning curve. Finding award bookings that fit your schedule, destination, and availability and have good value for miles is not easy and often requires looking beyond a single airline’s frequent flyer program. heymax wants to give everyone a free vacation every year, without the steep learning curve that mile collectors currently have to go through. Today, it helps you maximise miles from your credit cards, and double dip on miles when you shop through them. By searching any merchant that you’re spending at using heymax’s search engine, it will recommend you the best card to use based on which cards you already have. While earning as many miles from credit card spending is vital, there is another approach to earning more miles that you can’t ignore – and this is where plays a crucial role. designed to let users earn extra miles beyond the standard benefits that credit cards offer, such as miles, cashback, and points. For instance, if you utilise an air miles credit card to pay for hotel stays and flights, you’ll earn miles for those expenses. By using heymax, you not only receive all the standard benefits associated with credit card payments (like miles, cashback, points) but also gain additional Max Miles. These Max Miles can be converted on a 1:1 basis into miles within 24 airline or hotel loyalty programs. Essentially, this allows users to “double-dip” on their miles, enhancing their rewards significantly, all for free! While this is what the product does today, heymax wants to simplify all aspects of the miles game, essentially allowing anyone to enjoy the benefit of free flights without the effort of researching ways to earn and redeem miles. By partnering with merchants, businesses, and employees, heymax wants to aggregate rewards to help you earn a free vacation every year. Picture this — instead of earning a few points or cashback here and there at your favourite café, fast food chain, or supermarket, heymax combines the rewards from various businesses for you, so they all add up to something much bigger, e.g. a business class trip to Japan. For those unfamiliar with the concept, it might seem implausible that consumers can earn miles twice on the same purchase — once through their standard credit card rewards and then again through additional miles via Max Miles. Yet, this strategy is not entirely new. For example, Shopback, one of Singapore’s largest e-commerce platforms, offers a similar value proposition. Users who make purchases through Shopback receive bonus cashback in addition to the regular credit card rewards they accrue when making payments with their cards. operates in a similar way. By visiting the heymax website or using the heymax app, you will find a wide array of well-known brands. Through heymax, shoppers can earn extra rewards on top of their usual credit card benefits, effectively “double-dipping” on their rewards for a single transaction. When making purchases through heymax, such as booking accommodations through Agoda and flights with Singapore Airlines for year-end holiday plans, users can accumulate Max Miles on top of the standard benefits that credit cards offer. For example, as of the time of writing, the heymax website features a promotion with Agoda that rewards users with 4 Max Miles for every $1 spent. A user who spends $2,000 on a hotel using a credit card that awards 1.4 miles per $1 spent would receive 2,800 miles. However, by booking the hotel through Agoda via the , users can earn an extra 8,000 Max Miles, bringing their total earnings to 10,800 miles from this single transaction. This could easily get you a round trip to Bali on SQ just by just doing the same purchase on heymax. To earn Max Miles, it’s important to click on the merchant’s shopping link through heymax and to make a purchase. Shopping prices will be similar with the merchant directly. The only difference is the extra Max Miles that is earned. heymax suggests using a simple checklist to ensure that you get your Max Miles credited to you correctly. These include reading the terms and conditions carefully, disabling ad blockers, avoiding applying promo codes and completing the purchases within the same session. For avid users of Shopback, all of these should already sound familiar. The simple logic here is that heymax (like Shopback) gets a commission from the merchant for sending a user to their site who eventually pays for a product. heymax convert most of the commission they receive from the merchant to reward the user with Max Miles, and keep a small percentage of the commission which becomes their revenue. Max Miles earned can be transferred to airlines and hotel points at a 1:1 ratio at any of heymax’s growing list of 24 redemption partners. Here are some participating airline programmes where users can redeem their miles at. Using the example above, a $2,000 hotel booking which initially earn a cardholder 2,800 miles (based on a 1.4 miles per $1 spent) can be increased to give the cardholder a whooping 10,800 miles (assuming an earn rate of 4 Max Miles per $1). Besides converting Max Miles to airlines miles and hotel points, users can also use Max Miles to redeem merchant gift cards (1,000 Max Miles for a $10 gift card). If you want to try using heymax, to enjoy the best sign up benefits. heymax.ai fast tracks your travel goals for free by rewarding you additional miles on top of your credit card rewards when shopping online. Get an upsized 800 miles bonus (usually 500) when you sign up through our exclusive . Promo ends 30 April 2024.