https://www.catalogpoints.com/series/catalog-shopping/Recent content in Catalog Shopping on CatalogPoints.comHugo -- gohugo.ioenCatalogPoints.comSat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.catalogpoints.com/post/which-shopping-portal-pays-the-most-for-catalog-brands/Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.catalogpoints.com/post/which-shopping-portal-pays-the-most-for-catalog-brands/ <h2 id="which-shopping-portal-pays-the-most-for-catalog-brands-a-2026-rate-roundup">Which Shopping Portal Pays the Most for Catalog Brands? A 2026 Rate Roundup</h2> <p>Four portals list the same catalog store on the same day. The rates they show are not identical, and on a $300 catalog order the gap between the lowest-paying and the highest-paying can exceed $10 in real money. That gap exists because <a href="https://www.rakuten.com">Rakuten</a>, the <a href="https://shopping.chase.com">Chase Shopping Portal</a>, <a href="https://www.capitalone.com/shopping/">Capital One Shopping</a>, and Amex negotiate rates with merchants independently — and those rates shift on a near-weekly basis. <a href="https://www.cashbackmonitor.com">CashbackMonitor</a> is the tool that aggregates all of them in one place, and it is the source behind this mid-2026 roundup. Twelve catalog brands are compared below, with notes on which portal tends to lead and why the Amex row on CashbackMonitor deserves its own asterisk.</p>https://www.catalogpoints.com/post/chase-shop-and-earn-shopping-portal-earn-rates-for-the-top-catalog-brands/Thu, 02 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.catalogpoints.com/post/chase-shop-and-earn-shopping-portal-earn-rates-for-the-top-catalog-brands/ <h2 id="chase-shop-and-earn-portal-ur-rates-for-the-top-catalog-brands">Chase Shop and Earn Portal: UR Rates for the Top Catalog Brands</h2> <p>The <a href="https://shopping.chase.com">Chase shopping portal</a> carries an official name that many cardmembers have never noticed: <strong>Shop and Earn</strong>. The name is accurate — click through from the portal before placing your catalog order, earn Ultimate Rewards points on the qualifying spend, and those points stack on top of whatever your Chase card already earns at checkout. For catalog shoppers who already carry a Chase card, Shop and Earn is the layer that turns a routine home-goods or apparel order into a meaningful UR accumulation event. The questions worth answering are which catalog brands appear in the directory, how the per-brand earn rates work, and which Chase card extracts the most value from the points you collect.</p>https://www.catalogpoints.com/post/capital-one-shopping-portal-catalog-brand-coverage-and-earn-vs-rakuten/Mon, 29 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.catalogpoints.com/post/capital-one-shopping-portal-catalog-brand-coverage-and-earn-vs-rakuten/ <h2 id="capital-one-shopping-catalog-coverage-and-earn-vs-rakuten">Capital One Shopping: Catalog Coverage and Earn vs. Rakuten</h2> <p>Most shoppers who install the <a href="https://www.capitalone.com/shopping/">Capital One Shopping</a> browser extension assume it functions like a cashback portal — click through, place a catalog order, earn money back deposited somewhere useful. The assumption is close but not accurate. <a href="https://www.capitalone.com/shopping/">Capital One Shopping</a> earns <strong>Capital One Shopping Credits</strong>, which are redeemable for gift cards from the platform's own gift card catalog. Credits cannot be deposited to a bank account, transferred to an airline loyalty program, or applied as a statement credit. For catalog shoppers evaluating which portal to click through before a home-goods or apparel order, that reward structure is the first fact to absorb — it determines whether the earn is actually useful before any rate comparison with <a href="https://www.rakuten.com">Rakuten</a> or the <a href="https://shopping.chase.com">Chase Shop and Earn portal</a> has meaning.</p>