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Keeping track of points and miles is only half the battle. Making sure they don’t quietly expire is the other. AwardWallet already does the heavy lifting by tracking balances and expiration dates across your loyalty accounts and alerting you about upcoming expirations. But there’s an easy way to make those deadlines even harder to miss.
With AwardWallet’s calendar expiration import, you can sync your points and miles expiration dates directly to your digital calendar — whether you use Google Calendar, iCal, or Outlook. That means upcoming expirations show up right alongside your meetings, trips, and reminders, giving you one more safety net against losing hard-earned rewards.
Here’s how the AwardWallet account expirations calendar import works and how to set it up in just a few minutes.
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Setting Up AwardWallet Calendar Expirations
Adding expiration alerts to your calendar is simple. Follow these two steps:
Generate your AwardWallet calendar link
Log into your AwardWallet dashboard. Click on “Views”, then select “Account Expirations Calendar Import”:
Next, you will be prompted to make your AwardWallet calendar public. This does not mean that everyone will be able to see your calendar. Only those people who have your specific link will be able to see your expiration dates.
Once you click “Yes”, you will be presented with your individual mileage expiration calendar URL. Copy the link and leave it on your clipboard.
Add the calendar link to your preferred digital calendar
Now, the process will depend on the calendar you are using. There are step-by-step directions for each of the three calendar options:
For those using Google Calendar, you can open your calendar and click on the plus sign next to “Other Calendars” on the left side of screen. Then select “From URL”:
Finally, paste your calendar link into the new window and click “Add calendar”.
How the AwardWallet Account Expiration Calendar Import Works
Once added, your expiration dates will automatically appear in your calendar. For example, if you have multiple points expiring on December 31st, you'll see all related notices in your calendar on that date. In my case, I have a LOT of notices.
Clicking on an event will display detailed information and a direct link back to AwardWallet, allowing you to manage your accounts with ease.
Final Thoughts
The team at AwardWallet is working hard to improve the tools available to its customers. AwardWallet members have the option to receive balance expiration emails and push notifications through the AwardWallet app. The ability to link your day-to-day calendar with the points expiring notification provides an easy way to track your rewards expiration dates.
You never want to lose your hard-earned credits, points, and miles; this is another great option in your toolbelt to maximize your travel capabilities!
What data does AwardWallet have access to on my calendar when I do this? Can AwardWallet see my calendar or just add this terrific information?
AwardWallet would have no access to any info on your other calendars. This is just added as an ‘other calendar’ (in Google Calendars) that relays your expiration dates from your AwardWallet account.
This is a very useful feature. I used to have to do this manually – look out for email with exp dates etc. and manually enter it my calendar…
keep it up
This is great! Thanks for adding this feature to keep up with rewards.
Such good news!! Would not have noticed my miles are close to expire otherwise.
Excellent enhancement and available to all members! Thank-you.
Thank you very much for adding this feature, I think this will be a fantastic benefit. Thanks!
This new feature is great. I would have completely lost out on my AA points w/o the reminder that I received via email. During these times, the last thing I’m thinking about are my mileage expiration dates.
Great tool – you just didn’t mention that this feature is only available to AwardWallet Plus members.
Nope, this feature is available for all members.
I love this feature and I’ve been using more calendar feeds in general. But when I went into this, it gives only the option for individual account calendar feeds. I keep track of 6 people’s accounts, so in the current iteration of this feature it looks like I’d have to create 6 feeds. Is that correct?
In your next version of this, could you consider a consolidated calendar feed? If not possible, or too technically difficult, I understand as this would just a very nice to have.
Thanks again for always improving.
Many thanks for your feedback! We will discuss that.
Exactly! This looks is a great feature, but adding 6 new calendar layers to Google Calendar is a mess. Please consider a “combined” option with all account expirations on the same calendar layer.
Very useful feature.
Now it would be even easier keep active our accounts.
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I’m always paranoid of expiring miles. This is a welcome feature addition.
Awardwallet keeps getting better and better
wow! very cool. thank you guys, im going to try it out right now. 🙂
Wow! I love this! Now my husband can see when his miles/points expire on our shared calendar. What a great thought! Thank you whoever thought of this!
This is awesome! Thanks for continuing to make the site better and better!
That’s a great feature! Going to try it right away
Thank you. This is very helpful!
Excellent news, is it a feature available for all accounts or only premium ones? Thank you.
Yes, for all accounts.
Wow, thank you. You guys are constantly looking out for us. 🙂
Just a heads up… when I followed the steps, selecting Account Expirations Calendar import… it allowed me to proceed successfully, but it also gave me a popup saying it was for AW Plus members only. Here’s the text of the popup:
“This feature is only available to AwardWallet Plus members. By upgrading to Plus you support our development efforts, which makes the service better. We appreciate your support!
Please click OK to proceed to the upgrade page, or Cancel to close this window.”
Again, it worked fine, so you likely just have to turn this popup off.
Thank you for letting us know! 🙂