 Hello everyone this is Amit Dan of AmitDan.com. Today I'll have another episode of Rewards Points, Tips and Tricks video and I'll talk about how McDonald's Rewards works and how you can maximize your redemptions. If this is your first time, I'll be visiting. Thank you for your support. On this channel I'm always trying new and different ideas. If you're into thinking outside the box, this is the channel to subscribe. If you're only looking for Rewards, Tips and Tricks videos, there will be links in the description box below. Today I'll talk about how my McDonald's Rewards works and how you can collect and redeem points. I have some notes right here which I'll go over one by one. Let's start with the basics. My McDonald's Rewards started in November 2021. This is a fairly new program. Before that, there used to be a program where you had to punch your cup or the sticker and then you would collect like you know those each sticker each time you buy coffee. So those are gone and this is more modern and everything is done via app. So the point or the program starts with 5000 bonus points. So whenever you're making your first purchase after installing the app and using the app, you are rewarded 5000 bonus right away. And then after that for each dollar, you'd earn 100 points. So that's the basics of how you earn. Then from time to time McDonald's would run bonus points events. So you know they would give you like a double or triple the points depending on when or what type of promotions they're running. And one thing to note that McDonald's points do expire after six months. Although they say after six months but when I open my points then it looks like it's actually it has more expiration date than six months but you know it's the best idea would be to check on your app. And another thing that you know whenever you're opening your McDonald's apps you're going to always see like you know deals different type of deals for example discounted meal or coffee or tea. So that's something to remember. Now let's move on to how to collect McDonald's points. The first thing you need to do you have to install the app from your phone's play or app store and then you have to register and then once you do that each time you order something at McDonald's you have to scan the app to collect points and your points will show up will appear on the app. Just one thing to remember here that delivery orders or items do not earn any points. Now let's talk about how to redeem McDonald's points. So in order to redeem you have to open the app and the choose rewards tab and then it's going to take you to the section where you can earn or you can redeem the app points. So for example let me just show you how it works. So here when you open the McDonald's apps on your phone then you're going to see the tab reverse which is right here. So if you click on it then it's going to show you like in your points history and how many points you have and then it's going to show you my rewards which is right here. So if you click on view all and then here you can see that you know how you can redeem your points. So for example redeem for 2000 points and redeem for 4000 points. So it's going to show you all the tiers which is available or you can redeem points for. So that's how you can redeem points. Now McDonald's has five different tiers which is from 2000 to 1400 points and not all items are available on the reverse program. For example you cannot have some items when you're redeeming points. For example Filet or Milkshake or McGriddles. There could be more items but these are the three I found. So the tiers are there five different tiers. The first tier is tier one which is up to 2000 points and the second tier or I'm sorry 2000 points and the second tier is 4000 points and the tier three is 6000. The four is 10000 and five is 14000. Delivery orders cannot be redeemed which I mentioned before. That delivery orders cannot be earned points but at the same time delivery orders cannot be redeemed by points. So that's something to remember. Now I'm just going to show you what items are available under each tier. So for example you can see here that if you have 2000 points which is the tier one then you can choose to redeem coffee, tea, hash brown, vanilla, coke, cone and donuts. Then for 4000 points you have fries, sausage, cheeseburger, latte, any size. 6000 points you have Mac double, Mac muffin, junior chicken and this Mac sausage and for 10,000 points you have a Big Mac, Mac muffin, extra value meal, six piece chicken, Mac nuggets and happy meal and then the last one is the 14,000 points. Here you have like you know the meal for example a Big Mac, Mac chicken meal, quarter pounder meal. Now I'm going to tell you how to get the best value for your points when you are redeeming for McDonald's. So the thing to remember that it looks like that tier one which is the lowest tier right here. It gives you the best value for your points. So what it means that you know if you are redeeming for this tier you're going to get more value per point than any other tiers and tier five offers the least value. So if you just like you know kind of hoard your points and try to look for tier five which is the 10,000 points to redeem for like you know happy meal or six big piece Mac nuggets and Big Meal, Big Mac or you know a quarter pounder which are under 14,000. So this like you know the last one actually I'm sorry I think I told you this but the last tier is this. So the farther you go on tier the lower your points are going to extract value for you. So the best thing would be to get tier one. So whenever you get like you know some points if you redeem for the items from tier one that's how you're going to just get the best value for your points. Now I checked some items which items would give you best value. So for example for from tier one you can redeem for tea, coffee, hash brown and these usually give you the best value and for example also you can redeem for iced coffee and it looks like right now iced coffee has the maximum value based on the price of iced coffee. So to maximize your you know redemption value for your points just go with the tier one and it looks like iced coffee gives the best value. Now one thing to remember that any size coffee you can redeem from whenever you're redeeming something. So a small, medium, large so the best deal you'd get if you are redeeming for the large size because you know whether you are redeeming large or small or medium is still you're going to lose 2000 points. So you can get the maximum value when you're redeeming for the large size and from tier two it looks like the latte and fries they have the best value although if you are going for other items you're going to lose a value for your points and tier five is not recommended or any higher tiers you're going to lose a value but even let's say even still you want to redeem something from tier five then it seems like the quarter pounder is giving you more value than Big Mac or a chicken McNugget or chicken combo so that's something to remember. Now this is what I mentioned already always get the large size because you know you're using same points regardless of what size you are redeeming so it's best to get the large size and then looks like these items have the order value in terms of when you're redeeming your points so try not to redeem for these which are junior chicken, Macdouble and this is value meal so these are the worst of everything you're going to get much lower value for your points when you are redeeming for these so these are the basics of McDonald's my McDonald's rewards and how it works and if you are interested then you can find more information just going to the McDonald's website and they have like you know they have answered most of the questions you might have but I went through the basics today and hopefully this is going to help you to understand and how to redeem or how to collect McDonald's points so that's all for today thank you for watching this video there will be more videos coming up so I'll see you shortly thank you