The weather is heating up, and so are the Bonus Stars promotions at Starbucks! A brand new just rolled out by email, and if you had been selected by their Big Computers, you have to first manually “Join the Dash” before you’ll earn the bonus points.

This is yet another variation of the After 2pm (local time) Dash. If you make five purchases after 2pm local time, between June 27 and the close of business on July 3 in 2017, you will get 50 bonus stars, in addition to the regular stars from your purchase. Or if you make seven or more, you’ll earn 100 bonus stars. So two extra purchases double your bonus. In other words, if you reach five, you might as well go the extra mile and reach seven.

You only earn this once, so whether you make seven or 70 purchases during this promotional period, you’ll only earn 100 Bonus Stars 🙂

Don’t forget that today (Monday June 26) is a Surprise Double Stars Day.

Also, if you have a Chase Freedom credit card that participates in the 5% Quarterly 5% Rewards, you may want to hold off reloading your Starbucks account until July 1st, because the July 1 through September 30 quarter includes Restaurants and historically Starbucks had been earning 5% through Chase!

Starbucks Rewards already had the June double stars day on the 12th of the month, but surprise-surprise, in a new email they have announced a second Double Stars day for Monday June 26 (2017) ~ two weeks later! You don’t have to manually activate Double Stars, but I don’t know if everyone gets exactly the same day or it is spread out among rewards members.

Check your email or Starbucks app to make sure it is so for your own account. Strategically double stars days are great for restocking on coffee and tea, making “capital purchases” like cups, coffee machines, and other accessories, and things of that nature. Gift cards and reloads do not earn any stars, so it doesn’t matter when you make them.

The weekend is almost upon us, and you may be eligible for another Weekend Dash as part of the Starbucks Rewards. This is by invitation, so check your email or app to see if the Starbucks Rewards computers selected you. If yes, make sure you activate the offer, otherwise you will not earn the bonus.

So, between the store opening on Friday June 23 until the close of business on Sunday June 25 in 2017, you will earn 75 Bonus Stars if you make five purchases (or more), OR you will earn 25 Bonus Stars if you make three purchases. As with other offers, once you get to the first level, you have to try to get to the second level since the bonus is much better!

I should preface this like all other Starbucks Rewards promotion, I have no way of knowing whether the offers are sent to every single person participating in their rewards program, or only a subset based on how their computers decide to target promotions, so it’s always a YMMV as to whether you will be offered this.

This offer is best suited for people who typically buy breakfast and lunch there, since the items are too expensive to buy just for the sake of the promotions. So the offer is this: after you join the challenge, between June 20-27 in 2017, you must needs purchase one item from each one of these three product categories:

• one Evolution Fresh juice (these are not cheap!)
• any Warm (non-Breakfast) sandwich
• any Breakfast sandwich

If you are not certain what’s the difference between a Breakfast and a “Warm” (non-Breakfast) sandwich, check their menu or even faster, check the Order Menu within the Starbucks iOS or Android app.

You don’t have to string together a Cal Ripken Jr type of streak to earn Bonus Stars at this new Starbucks Rewards promotion which you must first activate (if you have been offered it). Between June 13-19 in 2017, you earn bonus stars if you visit on consecutive days after 2pm local time. If you string together four days in a row, you get 25 Bonus Stars, a 5-day streak gets you 50 bonus stars, and a 6-day streak gets you 100 bonus stars.

Unlike previous offers where the number of individual transactions counts, with this promotion, all you have to do is make one purchase (or more) after 2pm local time on each day. The promotion runs for seven days, so if you want to max out, you can only miss the first day or the last day of the promotion.

Realistically this is a good deal if you are a daily visitor and if you have t he flexibility to move your daily visit after 2pm local time. This does not help if you need your Starbucks coffee to wake up on the way to work in the morning 🙂

If you are participating in the Starbucks Rewards program, it looks like Monday June 12 (2017) is Double Stars Day, assuming everyone gets the same day. During Double Stars day, items that typically earn 2X stars per $1 will receive twice that. So you get 4X Stars per $1. This means you only need to spend $31.25 to earn a full reward, instead of the the usual $62.50.

Check your email or Starbucks app to make sure you are eligible for this. Strategically this is a good time to make purchases of coffee beans, tea boxes, coffee cups and such, since you’ll earn twice as many rewards.

Another offer is out from the Starbucks Rewards emailing list. This is a weekender offer and you have to manually activate it by adding it to your Starbucks card. The offer is simple, for the Friday to Sunday weekend (June 9-11 in 2017), you get 25 Bonus Stars if you make three purchases OR 75 Bonus Stars if you make five purchases. This is separate transactions, not separate visits. You will only earn the bonus once during this promotional period.

As usual with these type of offers, you can make the most of them by maxing out, as two additional purchases get you twice as many more bonus stars.

If you like to buy non-breakfast sandwiches at Starbucks, a new promotion got rolled out via email to eligible Starbucks Rewards members. As usual, these are YMMV, so check your email or apps to make sure you are eligible for this ~ because you have to manually activate it first.

The offer gets you 50 bonus stars if you purchase three warm sandwiches. The email is misleading until you read the fineprint at the bottom. It is “any warm sandwich” because the fineprint further down says Breakfast Sandwiches are EXCLUDED. If you are not familiar with the distinction, check the menu on their website or within the app (faster to look at the menu there, using the Ordering menu).

So given the above, this offer is best suited for all of you who regularly buy non-breakfast sandwiches. Otherwise it’s too expensive just to earn a 50 bonus, which is just 40% of a full reward.

PS: don’t forget, a really good deal, reload $10+ with ChasePAY and get two FULL rewards. This is one of the best Starbucks Rewards ever! Two full size rewards can be redeemed for the most expensive food or drink item, easily surpassing the $10 reload amount 🙂

UPDATE 6/6/17: Success! The 250 Bonus Stars have been loaded to my account! This is one of the best Starbucks Rewards promotions ever! All you have to do is reload your balance (which you would do anyway to keep feeding your habit) using Chase Pay and you get two free FULL Rewards 🙂

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This is a very easy way to score TWO FULL rewards as a bonus with the Starbucks Rewards program. All you have to do is RELOAD your existing Starbucks app/card with $10 or more, paid with Chase PAY! This promotion just came via email. There is no manual activation needed, but I don’t know if it is targeted or everyone can use it. 250 Bonus Stars are the equivalent of two full rewards if you redeem them within six months of issuance.

This is a screenshot of the relevant parts of the email:

The email is not quite clear on what specific steps to take (in-store? online? within the app?). Thankfully the email points to this website that provides more detailed instructions on what to do:

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If you happen to enjoy or buy regularly the following items, this new promotion running for Starbucks Rewards members (YMMV; must manually activate it first) will get you 100 Bonus Stars (that’s 80% towards a reward) when you purchase one item from each participating product category between May 30 an d June 5 in 2017.

The three product categories are:

• any Warm sandwich (excluding breakfast sandwiches
• any Breakfast sandwich
• any Evolution Fresh Juice

In other words, you have to get one breakfast sandwich, and one non-breakfast sandwich (eg the paninis). You can’t cover both categories with a breakfast sandwich alone. It would be a lot easier to get this bonus that way 🙂

As far as I can tell, you no longer get credit in these type of promotions for purchases made by redeeming a reward. Only items you pay for earn promotional credits. Another loophole closed 🙂

You can only get one 100 Bonus during this promotion. If you buy more of these trios, you will not earn additional 100 bonuses. But you will continue earning the standard rewards (2 Stars per $1).

If you are a Starbucks Rewards member, especially if you also participating in the Before 11am Dash, there is a new promotion rolling by email, you get 50 Bonus Stars if you purchase any frapp TOGETHER with any baked good in the SAME transaction.

The offer runs May 26-28 in 2017. You must manually activate the offer by clicking on the appropriate place in the email or app.

Good news if this is your favorite combo, you can take advantage of this offer as many times as you like during this promotion which runs for three days.

The last few Dashes were trying to encourage people to visit their local Starbucks stores after 2pm, but I guess now that the weather is heating up, they want more morning business, because they new promotion that went out by email today wants you to visit before 11am local time.

As usual, you get 50 Bonus Stars if you make six separate transactions before 11am ET during the promotional period, and you get another 50 Bonus Stars if you make eight. Basically once you get to six, you have to get to eight since you get twice as many stars with just two more purchases.

This promotion is running May 22-29 in 2017 (eight days total). You have to first manually activate the promotion by clicking on the appropriate place in the email or the Starbucks app.