OCBC 90N Review | What You Need to Know

OCBC 90N Visa & Mastercard Sign Up Promotion:

  • Receive Apple Airpods 4 (worth S$199) or Stryv Colour (worth S$129) or S$170 Shopee Voucher or S$150 Cash via PayNow when you make atleast one transaction with no minimum spend within 30 days of card approval
  • Valid from 03 March 2025 (5PM) until 16 March 2025
  • Read Terms and Conditions here
  • Must fulfill spending requirement to receive gift confirmation
  • Remember to check for SingSaver email to secure your rewards after you have applied!

90N Card Overview:

The OCBC 90°N Card is a pretty great miles card! You can earn 1.3 Miles for every dollar spent in SGD and 2.1 Miles for every dollar spent in foreign currency. Not only that, you can redeem air miles, cash rebates, and more! With over 9 hotel and airline partners, you can choose where to use this card. Here’s the best part: it never expires so you can earn unlimited miles and redeem it whenever you want!

Local Earn Rate
1.3 miles per dollar
Foreign Currency Earn Rate
2.1 miles per dollar
Foreign Currency Fees
3.25%
Min. Miles Transfer
1,000 90°N Miles (1,000 miles)
Transfer Fee
S$25
Points Pooling
Yes
Lounge Access
No
Airport Limo
No
Points Expiry
No Expiry

Eligibility & Fees:

  • Minimum Age: 21 years old
  • Minimum Annual Income: S$30,000 (locals/PRs); S$45,000 (foreigners)
    • Don’t worry if you income is below this threshold, there is a more secured version of this card? where you can do a S$10,000 fixed deposit
  • Annual Fee: S$196.20 (including GST), waived for the first year
    • Paying the annual fee on the second year earns you 10,000 miles (although it is not really worth it to pay the annual fee for the 10,000 miles, I can personally suggest to call the bank and have the annual fee waived)

Key Benefits:

  • Earn 1.3 miles per dollar on local spend (6.5 miles per S$5)
  • Earn 2.1 miles per dollar on overseas spend (10.5 miles per S$5)
  • No minimum monthly spending required
  • Miles never expire
  • No expiry on Travel$ earned

Best used on Agoda Bookings

  • Earn up to 7 miles per dollars on bookings made exclusively through the designated website, www.agoda.com/90n. To ensure accurate tracking of the transaction, you should avoid visiting any other Agoda landing pages after accessing this site on any browser.
  • Bonus miles will be credited to your credit card within two months after hotel check-out. Also, the promotion applies only to prepaid bookings and will not be applicable to bookings paid directly at the hotel.
  • However, you should still check the prices via incognito mode or via shopback as it is known to mark up prices.
Booking Period
Now until 30 November 2025
Stay Period
Now until 31 December 2025
Miles Awarded
7 miles per dollar in overseas spends; 6 miles per dollar in local spend
Destinations
Worldwide

Take advantage of the Complimentary Global Data Roaming by Flexiroam

  • Enjoy complimentary 3X 1GB 5-Day Flexiroam Data Plan per calendar year in over 200 countries and regions with a one-time setup, exclusively for OCBC 90N Mastercard cardmembers. Plus, enjoy 15% discount on all subsequent Flexiroam data plans.

Best Used with Cardup

 

  • You can pair your OCBC 90N Mastercard with Amaze for lower-cost overseas transactions
  • You can use your 90°N Miles to redeem vouchers or cash rebates in addition to KrisFlyer miles. Although limited, you can still check this list for spending categories.

Exclusion List:

MCC
Description
4784
Tolls and Bridge Fees
4829
Wire Transfer Money Orders (WTMOs)
4900
Utilities–Electric, Gas, Heating Oil, Sanitary, Water
5047
Medical, Dental, Ophthalmic and Hospital Equipment and Supplies
5199
Nondurable Goods (Not Elsewhere Classified)
5960
Direct Marketing Insurance Services
5993
Cigars, Stores and Stands
6010
Member Financial Institution–Manual Cash Disbursements
6012
Member Financial Institution–Merchandise and Services
6051
Quasi Cash–Merchant (Non-Financial Institutions – Foreign Currency, NonFiat Currency, Cryptocurrency)
6211
Securities–Brokers and Dealers
6300
Insurance Sales, Underwriting and Premiums
6513
Real Estate Agents and Managers–Rentals
6540
Non-Financial Institutions – Stored Value Card Purchase/Load
7349
Cleaning, Maintenance and Janitorial Services
7523
Automobile Parking Lots and Garages
7995
Gambling – Betting, including Lottery Tickets, Casino Gaming Chips, OffTrack Betting, and Wagers at Race Tracks
8062
Hospitals
8211
Schools, Elementary and Secondary
8220
Colleges, Universities, Professional Schools and Junior Colleges
8241
Schools, Correspondence
8244
Schools, Business and Secretarial
8249
Schools, Trade and Vocational
8299
Schools and Educational Services–Not Elsewhere Classified
8398
Organizations, Charitable and Social Service
8651
Organizations, Political
8661
Organizations, Religious
8675
Automobile Associations
8699
Organizations, Membership–Not Elsewhere Classified (Labor Union)
9211
Court Costs Including Alimony and Child Support
9222
Fines
9223
Bail and Bond Payments
9311
Tax Payments
9399
Government Services–Not Elsewhere Classified
9402
Postal Services–Government Only
9405
Intra-Government Purchases–Government Only

Here is the list of their current transfer partners:

Airline
Hotels
Krisflyer
Accor Live Limitless
Air France-KLM Flying Blue
IHG One Rewards
British Airways Executive Club
Marriott Bonvoy
Cathay Pacific
Etihad Guest
United MileagePlus

Advantages:

  • No spending cap on travels earned for local and overseas spend
  • For KrisFlyer members, the conversion ratio is 1:1, therefore 1,000 travel$ is equivalent to 1,000 KrisFlyer miles. This is a great conversion rate since it could prevent orphan miles— these are the miles stuck in your account. Let’s say you earned a total of 27,000 miles, but the bank has a conversion block of 25,000, hence, you’ll be left with 2,000 orphan miles. Although, in some banks, you can use these orphan miles to redeem other rewards like a cashback or voucher.
  • 90°N Miles earned on the Mastercard and Visa versions of the OCBC 90°N Card can be pooled together

Disadvantages:

  • No complimentary lounge access; most of the competitive miles card already has lounge access comparing it to Citi Premiermiles and DBS altitude who has up to 2x priority passes.
  • Limited categories on rewards catalogue when you decided to spend points other than miles

  • When is the miles credited: This usually credits when the transaction posted, usually takes 24 hrs or in some, it could take 2-3 days
  • How is my miles calculated?: For every S$5, you can get 1.3 miles per dollar on local spend, and 2.1 miles per dollar on overseas spend.
    • Let’s say you spent S$50 locally (S$50 x 1.3mpd = 65 miles earned). But here’s the catch: you can only earn points in increments of S$5, therefore, if you have S$54.99, you still get the same miles as S$50 which is 65 miles.
  • How much is the conversion rate when I want to use my 90N into cash rebates?: For every 1,000 miles, you can get S$10
  • How do I redeem my miles for rewards: you can visit OCBC’s rewards page to redeem from the below transfer partners:


Comparison table with other non-expiring cards with similar earn rates:

Cards
OCBC 90N
Citi PremierMiles
DBS Altitude
Local Earn Rate
1.3 miles per dollar
1.2 miles per dollar
1.3 miles per dollar
Foreign Earn Rate
2.1 miles per dollar
2 miles per dollar
2.2 miles per dollar
Lounge Access
No
2x Priority Pass
Yes (on VISA)
Transfer Partners
SIA, Air France, British Airways, Cathay, Etihad, KLM, United, Accor, IHG, Marriott
SIA, British Airways, Cathay Pacific, Etihad, EVA Air, Flying Blue, Qantas, Qatar Airways, THAI, Turkish Airlines, IHG
SIA, Air Asia, Cathay Pacific, Qantas
Transfer Fee
S$25
S$27
S$27
Min. Transfer Block
1,000 90°N Miles (1,000 miles)
10,000 Citi Miles (10,000 miles)
5,000 DBS Points (10,000 miles)


Final Thoughts:

  • Points earned on this card do not expire, which is a really great benefit because it allows you to gradually build up your points and redeem them for a major holiday. This is especially handy if you’re not a frequent traveller, and don’t earn bucket loads of points regularly.
  • OCBC 90N Visa and Mastercard have different benefits, but both cards can pool points together. I have the Visa version, and might apply the Mastercard version too.


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OCBC 90N Visa & Mastercard Sign Up Promotion:

  • Receive Apple Airpods 4 (worth S$199) or Stryv Colour (worth S$129) or S$170 Shopee Voucher or S$150 Cash via PayNow when you make atleast one transaction with no minimum spend within 30 days of card approval
  • Valid from 03 March 2025 (5PM) until 16 March 2025
  • Read Terms and Conditions here
  • Must fulfill spending requirement to receive gift confirmation
  • Remember to check for SingSaver email to secure your rewards after you have applied!

We believe in always paying our credit card bills on time and in full. It is only by doing that, can we fully maximise our credit card benefits.

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