Cashback from Megafon - what is it, how to get it, how to use it, program conditions

Cashback is a service that allows you to save on purchases. When you buy any product, this option returns a fixed percentage of the amount spent back to your account.

The first cashback program appeared in Russia in 2006, and now this opportunity is offered almost everywhere. Special services, banks and even mobile operators offer refunds on every purchase.

Let's figure out how this function works on Megafon. Let's consider the types of cashback from the operator in 2021, ways to connect it, and options where you can spend it.

The main advantages of #Spices from MegaFon

Among the main advantages of participation in the program, the following points should be noted:

• Rewards for purchases of goods and services from program partners are paid not with any bonus points or other analogues of currency, but with very real rubles . They can be spent on paying for services, purchasing goods, or simply withdrawing them by using an ATM;
• There is no need to monitor your balance of cashback funds, since immediately after the payment is received, it is credited to your mobile phone account;
• The number of stores and services that offer the cashback service currently exceeds 300 items, and this figure is constantly growing;
• The cashback rate can reach 15%.

Refund for communication services

For users of the “Turn on!” tariff plans Megafon offers cashback for payment for communication services.

The percentage of refunds depends on how long you have been a Megafon subscriber:

• Less than 3 months - 10%;
• From 3 to 6 months - 15%;
• From six months to 1 year - 20%;
• From 1 year to 2 years - 25%;
• From 2 years and more - 30%.

It also depends on what tariff you are currently connected to. If you use the archived versions of the “Turn On!” series tariff plans, no more than 20% will be returned to your account.

Subscriber experience is not taken into account for the person as a whole, but only for a specific telephone number. If you are a regular customer, but your current phone number was recently registered, the system will consider you a new Megafon subscriber.

Cashback is credited to your account once a month, on the first day of the month.

Refunds are made only for payment of the subscription fee, as well as for international roaming costs. No refunds will be given for connecting paid services, subscriptions or spending in excess of the tariff.

Who can access the program?

Only individuals, as well as users of the following tariff plans, can connect to cashback: packages of tariff plans “Turn on!” (Entertainment, Talk, Chat, Choose, Watch, Premium.

To activate the service, just click on the corresponding button in the mobile application.

The cashback program is very popular among Megafon network clients and makes it possible to save money on the purchase of various categories of goods.

Advantages

Millions of users have already been able to appreciate all the benefits of plastic from Megafon Bank. These include:

• Fast registration.
• You can receive the card either independently or by courier.
• Possibility for one client to open up to 10 cards per personal account.
• For users of most tariff plans, free service is provided.
• Linking the plastic card to the personal account of a mobile company, which will bring special convenience when using it.
• Favorable bonuses when using a banking product with partners who provide maximum cashback.
• Automatic free SMS notification service.
• Topping up your account occurs in the same way as depositing money into your mobile phone.

One subscriber can open up to 10 plastic cards, which will be linked to one personal account. You can also link different cards to different accounts that are opened for the same user.

Note! Limit restrictions apply to one user, regardless of the number of accounts.

A credit card cannot be linked to a corporate phone number, but vice versa, it can be linked to a landline number.

How it works

Cashback is real money that we will return to your phone account. Stores pay us a commission for referring customers, and through this we return your money.

1Log in to special.megafon.ru or in the application for Android or iOS.2Place an order and pay for it in a convenient way: online or upon receipt3Receive cashback to your phone account after the store confirms the purchase

What you need to do to get cashback

Everything is very simple here: you must be a Megafon client and pay on the partner store’s website with a card from this operator. To get more cashback on purchases from Megafon, you need to activate the Gold level in Spices. That's all. Accounting for paid orders, calculating the refund amount and transferring money, as we have already said, occurs automatically, without the participation of the client.

List of partners

More than 420 stores, services and establishments of various formats cooperate with the mobile operator Megafon. There are several well-known partners that are very popular among mobile operator customers:

• Megafon – up to 6.4%.
• Auchan – up to 2.8%.
• Booking.com – up to 3%.
• United cinema chain "Formula Kino / Cinema Park" - 10%.
• CHAPTER CLUB – 10%.
• YOOX – 20%.
• Cirque du Soleil – 5%.
• Vans – 9.95%.
• Sportmaster – up to 4%.
• Montegrappa.ru –15%.

Money in the form of cashback comes to customers only after official confirmation from the store or service. The order amount and delivery conditions cannot be changed when purchasing on partner sites. After this, no refunds will apply.

Cashback partner stores

There is no point in listing all the retail outlets that cooperate with the mobile operator, since the list of stores includes more than 450 items. These include sellers in a wide range of categories and industries, including:

• Auto (17);
• Event tickets (4);
• Everything for home and office (85);
• Hypermarkets (14);
• Children's products (39);
• For pets (14);
• Food delivery (26);
• Foreign stores (6);
• Books (11);
• Beauty and health (65);
• Training (11);
• Clothing and accessories (114);
• Travel (32);
• Miscellaneous (18);
• Discount coupons (1);
• Sports (34);
• Insurance (13);
• Technology and electronics (70);
• Flowers and gifts (34).

The fact that some sellers (36 companies) are ready to provide visitors with increased cashback when purchasing online deserves special attention.

Additional conditions and promotions

IMPORTANT!

The promotion ran until October 2018.

Now it is simply irrelevant.

Cashback 10% for one month is a return of money to Megafon clients who have an organization card in their hands and have returned money through the service at least once a month.

At the same time, you still need to have a positive balance.

That is, more than five hundred rubles on the card balance. In this case, the discount percentage is up to 10.

The promotion for paying with a virtual card and receiving a thirty percent discount for every third purchase of over a thousand rubles from ApplePay really stirred up the public. By the way, if you use this Apple service, I recommend reading the options for receiving cashback there.

Surely, the company will have to launch it again, since several hundred thousand happy owners of new smartphones decided to save money.

Topping up your personal account with a super-size cashback is not available to everyone, I even doubted such gifts, but there are strict restrictions.

Megafon constantly holds various promotions

Conditions for participation in the promotion

• reaching adulthood;
• cashback limit to one thousand rubles;
• you must be a subscriber of the operator;
• receive a plastic virtual card of the organization;
• top up your card balance and make at least three transactions starting from a thousand rubles.

When will cashback be credited to my account? The money arrives the next month within thirty days.

Please clarify all questions with managers or in your personal account!

Direct phone number: 8 800 550-05-00.

Call it, ask your questions, you will be redirected to the “cashback” department - and there you will receive answers in a couple of minutes.

For standard transactions, returns are processed from thirty to fifty days from the date of purchase.

The entire scenario of actions is displayed in your personal account, and you can also clarify controversial issues and find out when the money will arrive through dispatchers and managers and Megafon

You can also return some of the money spent when ordering goods from the Chinese miracle store “Aliexpress” through the operator’s service. The only fact is that they cooperate not directly, but through Amitad, but this does not change the essence.

When buying a Samsung smartphone on Ali, I saved about two thousand rubles, although I had previously enabled the maximum cashback option.

The quality of the smartphone is good, I am satisfied.

I hope that I will purchase something else significant with the help of Ali and Megafon.

Rules for crediting cashback

Using the loyalty service is easy. To do this, you must follow these instructions:

• Go to the official MegaFon website special.megafon.ru, where they activate the service;
• After that, select the required online store from the list of all available categories and click on its icon;
• Click on the active button “Start shopping”;
• Select all the products you need and click the appropriate button to add them to the cart;
• Pay for purchases with a MegaFon bank card;
• Wait for a partial refund. Bonuses are awarded within the time limits determined by the operator’s partners. Information about enrollment deadlines is available in each store card on the Spice website.

It is worth paying attention to the fact that to participate in the loyalty program you need to go to the store’s website only from the Spices website. Only in this case the system recognizes MegaFon clients and awards bonus points. If the link is opened directly from the browser or via another link, then there is a high probability that the operator’s client will not receive a reward.

It is impossible to disable this option. But it doesn’t make sense to do this, since the service is completely free and does not in any way affect the costs of the tariff plan.

Virtual card

In September 2021, it became possible to issue a virtual card for free. To do this, you also need to be a Megafon subscriber. A virtual card has all the capabilities of regular cards; it can also be linked to a phone application and used to pay for purchases.

Formally, the virtual card is MasterCard Prepaid, valid for 3 years.

Now the operator is conducting an advertising campaign to popularize this particular card. You have to agree with him. Since there is no card carrier, then there is no payment for it.

Cashbacks for tariffs and categories are fully applicable to virtual cards. Many people make do with virtual machines completely and do not apply for plastic.

More cashback

Users of the service can increase the amount of accrued cashback for a small daily commission. After activating the service, cashback increases by 60%.

You can activate the gold cashback level on the #Spices website by clicking on the special “activate” button. The cost of the service is 15 rubles per day.

Deactivating the option is available in two ways:

• Online;
• via SMS request.

On the portal special.megafon.ru you need to click the disable button. To stop the service via SMS, you must send a message to 5151 with the word “STOP”.

Re-activation of gold cashback is available no earlier than a month after deactivation.

Connection

Activation is simple, go to the #Spices portal, select a company and click the “Buy” button. In the window that opens, your mobile phone number is indicated and an SMS is sent with a code that is entered in the appropriate line. After registration and authorization in the system, purchases are made.

In order for the service to work correctly and you can get your money back, you need to fulfill several conditions:

1. Access partner sites only through the Megaphone #Spices portal. In other cases, payment for goods is considered incorrect and no refund will be issued.
2. Once a purchase has been made, no changes will be made to the order, otherwise the refund will be void.
3. Any ad blocking applications installed in your browser should be disabled. Thanks to them, partners cannot identify you, which means that funds will not be credited.
4. If a MegaFon subscriber uses corporate tariffs, he needs to use the “Personal Budget” section on the #Spices portal
5. If you have an additional discount coupon or card, you must enter the information before purchasing.

You can watch the video of Megafon's development manager here to learn more about the new #spices service from Megafon.

For what purposes can you spend Megafon cashback?

After the launch of the program, many clients began to wonder what they could spend their cashback megaphone on. Once you have accumulated a sufficient amount, points can be spent on the following products:

• audiobooks. An assortment of about 30,000 books is available in the Litres online catalog, which you can listen to without restrictions and advertising by purchasing a subscription. When purchasing a book that is not included in the subscription, the client pays a 20% cheaper price;
• press from Megafon. Every lover of newspapers and magazines will be able to find something to their liking. 70 priority publications are represented (National Geographic, Forbes, Cosmopolitan, RBC), working in various topics: home improvement, construction, fashion, travel, business, auto or sports;
• books from Megafon. It is possible to purchase a subscription to 100,000 free books together with the Litres application in various genres: novels, detective stories, biographies, self-development psychology. As in the first option, there is a 20% discount on books not included in the subscription;
• Gold level when receiving cashback, which gives you the opportunity to get 60% more discounts in 500 online stores. Points are automatically transferred to a separate bonus account;
• music. You can use points to pay for subscriptions to services such as Yandex. Music, Boom. The user will enjoy HD quality, fresh news and updated playlists without time limits and advertising;
• parental control function. A popular service for parents who are concerned about the safety of their children. The program allows you to track your child’s location on a map, set geographic boundaries and receive SMS notifications about their crossing. History is saved daily. In addition, you can block certain sites and categories, as well as some options in the application (for example, balance or how much battery power is left on the phone);
• discounts on goods. To take advantage of the accumulated cashback points, just present the code from the message to the seller, or use bonuses when paying for online orders;
• purchasing packages on Megafon TV using points. For fans of TV channels, a whole catalog of packages and payments for individual channels opens up: a package from 18 and above (includes viewing of erotic channels, including classics of the genre in the Playboy style), an optimal package (a universal offer that is suitable for family members of any age), domestic TV series (subscription to cult Russian TV series, as well as fresh hits), “cinema by subscription” (the best offer for those who cannot live without movies for a minute. The general catalog ranges from 1,500 channels in various genres from horror to romance), the “maximum” package (a huge range of channels, including entertainment programs, sports and cinema, TV series).

What's the result?

I was pleased with the cards, of course, but the commission for withdrawing funds from ATMs is from 2.5%, and the cashback is not as rich as that of the same EPN.

The maximum return percentage is 15%, but in reality no more than five.

Money falling onto the card is a plus, but waiting for it is burdensome.

I was personally impressed by the discount on liters - a favorable tariff of up to 16% allows bibliophiles to save significantly.

By the way , you can get cashback at Litres in a bunch of ways. All of them are collected in the article.

Several cashback services work with Megafon

Question answer

Subscribers have various questions when using the #Spices service.

How are purchases paid?

Goods can be paid for using a bank card from any bank or in cash to the courier at the time of delivery.

Is it possible to get cashback at the store's checkout?

No, cashback is awarded only for goods or services purchased through the online service, since subscriber identification is only possible when going through the website special.megafon.ru.

Where is cashback credited?

Refunds are sent to the subscriber's phone number. The procedure is carried out automatically, and the subscriber receives an SMS notification.

Is it possible to cash out cashback?

Since cashback comes in rubles, withdrawing it will not be difficult. Funds can be spent on paying for goods and services, replenishing a mobile account, or cashed out. True, MegaFon has imposed some restrictions on cashing out money at an ATM:

• the amount of payments made by card must be at least 3,000 rubles per month;
• the maximum cash withdrawal amount cannot exceed 10,000 rubles per month.

In addition to cashing out, you can withdraw money by transferring to cards of other banks. There is a limit set for this (100 thousand per month for a plastic card, 40 thousand for a virtual one), and there is also a commission of 1.99%.

How to connect to the service and receive cashback for purchases

The service is offered free of charge to all current subscribers. Purchases should be made after entering the site and authorization. Website work plan:

• entering a valid mobile phone;
• store selection;
• placing an order and paying for it.

The maximum refund amount for one month is 30,000 rubles. The period for crediting money in the form of cashback is from 20 to 80 days. The operator must first obtain confirmation from the store or service. Users of the service should only be individuals who do not use corporate communication tariffs.

There is a list of circumstances when cashback will not be credited:

• the buyer has not been authorized on the Spices service website;
• the purchase was made in the name of a legal entity;
• When placing an order, third-party software was used (blockers, special antivirus settings, etc.);
• changes have been made to the completed order;
• additional discounts, points or promotional codes were applied.

The Spice bonus from Megafon will only work on genuine transactions that are carried out through the service’s website.

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Support

If you have any questions about using the #Spices service, the client can contact the program support service in two ways:

• via the feedback form on the website special.megafon.ru;
• by writing an email to

To increase user loyalty, cellular operators are developing special programs and offers that expand the capabilities of subscribers. #Spices allow you to save on online purchases and give customers the right to use the returned money as they wish.