Adding additional users to AMEX Business Platinum card for FREE

 

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With today’s hot deal around the $25 off $100 Staples AMEX offer that was only good for actual AMEX cards (instead of a Twitter hashtag), I decided I needed to stop being lazy and finally add more authorized users to my wife and my new AMEX Business Platinum cards as well as my AMEX Business Gold card.  I started with the Gold card:

Amex Business Gold additional users

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Now I’m not trying to add additional Gold cards so that my authorized users can get additional benefits.  I just want the card purely to use for AMEX offers.  Notice how with the Gold card, you can add the Business Green card for FREE.  And that’s what I did.  Here’s what happens when you try to add users to my AMEX Business Platinum card:

Amex Business Platinum additional users

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5/16/15 Update – It seems that you can now add up to 5 AMEX GREEN authorized users for free ONLINE

Oh oh, no option for a free Green card.  That’s when I remembered during the application process, I could have added additional users and I vaguely remember seeing a Green card option.  I would have done it at signup, but remember I was in a rush to get these cards before the end of the year.  So I called up the number on the back of my Business Platinum card and asked the CSR if additional Green cards were free.  She said YES.  I proceeded to add the additional cards.  Note that you do need a birthdate and ssn handy for the additional cardmembers.  I remember reading that it might not be necessary over the phone; I was tempted to try, but did not.

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