The MTS company informs on its official website that the MTS bonus program, which is already not particularly attractive, is closed.
After this, the savings will become inaccessible and the subscriber will no longer be able to use them.
“MTS Bonus” is a fairly old bonus program; the points received could be spent on traffic, minutes, SMS, discount coupons and much more. Recently it has become less profitable, the cost of rewards has risen. As for the current tariffs, they have acquired solid packages of minutes and traffic. It has become unprofitable to accumulate bonuses - they burn out faster than they accumulate.
To save up for a miserable 1 GB Internet package, you had to wait 11 months, limiting yourself in receiving other rewards.
The bonus program was beneficial only for subscribers who spent fairly large amounts. But they, as a rule, do not know about any bonuses - it’s easier for them to pay for extra minutes, Internet traffic and options.
Alternative
The operator thanked all its clients who actively participated in MTS Bonus and recommended spending all the points accumulated in the account by May 14. As of May 15, the loyalty program ceases to operate and all points are automatically canceled.
But instead of bonuses the operator mobile communications offers its subscribers another way to save money, which is considered more modern and popular. Thanks to this, you can get up to 50% discount when purchasing your usual products.
- More than 290 of the most popular online stores and services participate in the program.
- Cashback reaches 50% of the amount spent.
- You can earn points not only for online purchases, but also for paying for operator services.
- You can spend the accumulated money to pay for communications, Internet and other services. It is acceptable to pay for purchases in branded communication stores.
The service is easy to use on the website and in special application
"MTS Cashback". You will learn about the accrual of points from messages, as well as in your personal account and in the mobile application.
All clients who participate in the program receive 200 rubles cashback for their first purchase. Encouragement awaits those people who invite friends, they are awarded up to 1000 points.
When participating in the program, the subscriber is automatically connected to the service - replenishment of the number balance.
What can you spend accumulated bonuses on?
You can find out how many points you have in your account in your personal account. They can be exchanged for the following services:
- To pay for mobile communications. This includes free minutes, messages and additional Internet traffic;
- To install melodies instead of beeps;
- For various entertainment subscriptions;
- To use the library;
- Payment for home Internet and television.
All clients who did not have time to spend their points from the MTS Bonus program before May 14 inclusive will have them cancelled. The company does not accept further claims in this regard.
Everyone has a bonus program mobile operator. It is designed to attract customers to certain services or reward them for using a number of services. The MTS company also has such a program and it is called “MTS Bonus”. By connecting it, the user is periodically awarded bonuses, which, if there are sufficient quantities, can be exchanged for various rewards. We will tell you in this article how to activate bonuses on MTS and how to use them.
- Attract the subscriber's attention to various services,
- To promote the company on the market and attract a larger number of subscribers (for the same purpose, brands such as MTS Money or MGTS are created),
- Creation of a client base,
- Encouragement to use the company's products.
The longer a client is served by MTS, the more he is rewarded. For length of service, the mobile operator charges more points. This is another way to retain customers and form a permanent client base.
How to connect MTS Bonus
To connect to the program and use accrued points, you must register. You can register in the following ways:
- Fill out an application on the website bonus.mts.ru,
- Send SMS to short number 4555 (any message text),
- On mobile device enter the USSD combination * 111 * 455 * 1 # (sending the command is free),
- Buy a MTS Money card,
- Contact technical support by phone 0890 or 8 800 250 08 90 and inform the employee of your desire to connect the program,
- Make a purchase in one of the stores cellular communication MTS or in the online store at shop.mts.ru.
After registration, you will receive an SMS message confirming the registration procedure. The SMS message will be received within 7 days from the date of activation.
Users of all ages can participate in the program tariff plans, except for TP "Alle".
Subscribers using home Internet, television and telephony services must select the section “ Home Internet and TV" on the website bonus.mts.ru and fill out an application for connection. This service available to clients Altai Territory, Astrakhan region, Kemerovo region, Volgograd region, Krasnoyarsk and Krasnodar territories, Novosibirsk region, Orenburg and Omsk regions, Perm region, Rostov and Sverdlovsk regions, Stavropol Territory, Tyumen Region, Tatarstan, Yamalo-Nenets and Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug.
Please note: Bonuses are not awarded for using satellite TV services.
How points are awarded
Points are awarded for the following actions:
- Shopping at the company's cellular stores,
- Installation and use of digital TV and home Internet,
- Using the company's services,
- Using the MTS Money service,
- Making trips through MTS Taxi,
- Use of services of MTS subsidiaries.
The mobile operator has subsidiaries in the capital. You can also earn points when you use their services. How to do it:
- Open the user’s Personal Account through the official MGTS website www.mgts.ru,
- Fill in your phone number,
- When using the services of MGTS, for every 5 rubles spent you will be awarded one point,
- Accruals can be spent on services of the same company.
How are accruals made:
1 point - awarded for every 30 rubles spent during the month as a result of paying for services or purchasing goods in the Russian Federation or abroad through an online store using MTS Money. The company’s condition is that transactions in the previous month using the card amount to at least fifteen thousand rubles.
1 point - awarded for every twenty rubles spent during the previous month as a result of paying for services and purchasing goods, including using an MTS Bonus card, provided that at least 15 thousand rubles were spent in the previous month, but not more than 30 thousand rubles .
For expenses of three thousand rubles or more on the card, you will be awarded welcome bonuses: 1000 points credit cards MasterCard Standard and Gold.
If you use an MTS-Raiffeisenbank card and participate in the program, then for every 30 rubles spent. you will be awarded 1 point. When you use the card for the first time, you will receive welcome points: 300 for a VISA Classic credit card, 500 for a VISA Gold credit card, 200 for a debit card VISA card Classic, 400 – via VISA Gold debit card.
If you use an MTS-Citibank card, then for every 30 rubles spent. you will be awarded 1 point for purchases with MASTERCARD Standard and World cards.
When using a MasterCard "MTS" from Sberbank, then for every 30 rubles spent. you will be awarded 1 point for purchases using Sberbank Standard and Gold MasterCard cards.
The company cooperates with more than 60 stores, for purchases in which you will also receive bonuses. When purchasing in stores you can get up to 1500 bonuses. The exact amount of charges depends on the store itself, as well as the price of the product you purchased.
What can you spend your points on?
The privileges accrued by the company can be spent on the following actions:
- Company services: calls, SMS messages, Internet traffic,
- Mobile games, e-books,
- Activation of a melody instead of regular beeps,
- Receiving gifts from partner organizations,
- Additional opportunities from subsidiaries.
How to get free minutes, SMS and traffic
To receive free minutes in exchange for your savings, enter the combination:
* 111 * 455 * 11 # - 30 minutes to activate.
* 111 * 455 * 12 # - 60 minutes to activate.
Check the accruals and balances in the package of minutes using the combination: * 100 * 2 #.
To receive free SMS messages in exchange for your savings, enter the combination:
* 111 * 455 * 22 # - to activate 50 SMS.
* 111 * 455 * 23 # - to activate 100 SMS.
* 100 * 2 # — check the balance in the SMS message package.
Bonuses can also be exchanged for Internet traffic. For points you will be provided with the following packages: 100 MB, 500 MB, 1 GB, 2 GB, 5 GB, 20 GB. Sign in personal account user on the official website and activate one of the packages. Unfortunately, it is impossible to activate the package through a combination on a mobile device.
Attention: The storage period for bonuses is 1 year; upon expiration, they expire.
Command to check the balance of bonuses: * 111 * 455 * 0 # or by service number 4555.
MTS has had an MTS-Bonus program since time immemorial. This is how she worked. Every time you top up your account or hold it more money, than you need to pay for the tariff, you were awarded a few points.
These points accumulated slowly but surely. You could spend them on several things:
Of all such “loyalty programs”, MTS has had five over the past years the most interesting opportunities spending bonuses. I visited their menu several times and managed to save not only on communications (for example, I gave myself free traffic), but also on tangible things. I customized the same pendants for a friend.
But over the past year and a half, MTS-Bonus has been quietly “poorer”, losing the most interesting points for “cashing out” bonuses. Now it became clear why.
The MTS Bonus program is closed today, all bonuses are canceled
Yesterday was the last day of the MTS-Bonus program. Information about this is in the corresponding section of the application.
All bonuses that were not spent before midnight are completely burned today.
MTS did not offer any normal replacement for this program. Well almost.
Instead of MTS-Bonus they now offer to use the service MTS Cashback. But it works completely differently. Instead of just paying a tariff, you need to spend money on purchases and services offered by the service.
Considering how many similar services already exist on the Internet, I personally don’t see any point in using MTS Cashback. And the offers are there absolutely nothing.
It's sad, but happy at the same time. Now it will be a little easier for me personally to leave MTS.
I am writing here not in the hope that something will change - our operators are impenetrable, if they have made a decision, they will not change anything. Just an example of how we are slowly being deprived of good things for the sake of profit.
Payment for MTS with “Thank you” bonuses from Sberbank does not work in 2020 - such a statement is found more often than subscribers of the telephone company would like. Using the bonus program allowed them to save on cellular communications and reduce the cost of communicating with loved ones. But now it is no longer possible to use the accumulated points, no matter what replenishment method the clients of both organizations adhere to. A similar function is missing both in the personal account on the banking portal and on the website of the mobile operator.
Considering the convenience of the system and the sudden disappearance of such an economical and attractive function, users are interested in answers to several questions at once:
- why can’t I pay for my phone with accumulated bonuses;
- how to restore a favorite function;
- what led to the disappearance of bonus payment;
- how to transfer money to an account.
Search necessary information will not cause huge difficulties for subscribers, although some nuances will remain without detailed explanations, since large companies motives are not always explained decisions made. Often they prefer to remain silent, simply confronting the client with the facts. This also affects the situation when MTS stopped recognizing bonuses.
There is only one reason why users are unable to save on smartphones and communications. It is explained by the fact that MTS does not accept “Thank you” from Sberbank, since it left the list of partners of the financial institution. Therefore, all privileges relating to telephone operator, stopped working. You can verify this in several ways:
- visit the official portal of the current bonus program and review the list of partners and the rewards provided by them (for convenience, you should enter the name of the cellular company in the search bar);
- contact the bank’s support service and inquire about the reasons for the difficulties with paying for a mobile phone;
- call contact center telephone company and ask the same question to the consultants.
The answer and the result (in the case of an independent search for information) will be the same. The partnership program of the two flagships of the Russian telephone and financial market has been suspended, and therefore rely on the use of bonuses to pay for calls and mobile services no use. Subscribers should not waste precious time; it is better to immediately think about choosing alternative options for crediting finances to a SIM card.
MTS stopped accepting “Thank you” from Sberbank in 2020
Once you are convinced that it is impossible to top up your account using accumulated accruals, you should think about the reasons for the difficulties. If you write and send a corresponding request, both organizations confirm that payment of MTS with “Thank you” bonuses from Sberbank has been suspended, but neither institution explains the motives that forced them to make an unpopular decision. There is no information with explanations on the official websites of the companies. Moreover, not a single establishment even reported making such a decision. 
But, despite the lack of information and official statements, some conclusions can be drawn. To do this, just look at the list of bank partners working in the field telephone communication. It is extremely short, and of the large, well-known operators, only Megafon is present in it. But even it does not allow you to transfer money to the SIM card balance, limiting yourself to payments for equipment and accessories. Consequently, depositing funds into the account turns out to be unprofitable and inconvenient for the bank and cellular companies, and therefore it is pointless to count on a change in the current situation in the near future. You will not be able to use the privileges you receive to pay for telephone calls and reduce the cost of communicating with friends and acquaintances.
What to do if MTS does not accept “Thank you” bonuses?
Having considered the main factors that hinder cooperation between the flagships of the Russian banking and telephone sectors and having figured out why MTS payment with “Thank you” bonuses from Sberbank does not work, it remains to decide on the most convenient methods for crediting finances to a smartphone. To maintain balance at a decent level, it is allowed:
- use personal account on the MTS portal;
- use Sberbank Online, through which you can easily send the required amount to your own account;
- deposit funds through telephone banking by sending an SMS message with the desired amount to service number 900;
- connect "autopayment".
In the MTS personal account we see the following message:
Hurry up to use your points until 05/14/2019 inclusive!
You might not even realize that you are participating in the MTS Bonus program, but such a program still exists, and many subscribers are awarded points under it.
May 15 is the official end, between April 14 and May 14, 2019, you must spend all points in your account.
How to check if you have any bonuses left in your account
From information message in your personal account, follow the link and you will be taken to the program’s former personal account. In the back right corner of the site there is information about the points in your account.
Why was the decision to terminate made?
How to spend
If you have accumulated a decent amount of points, then hurry to spend it. Scroll down the page to the bottom, where new information awaits you. Follow the links to the appropriate section. Quick link to bonus program https://bonus.ssl.mts.ru
You can use it on:
- Mobile communication services,
- Melodies instead of beeps
- Fixed line services,
- Entertainment,
- Library.
In each section you will see what type of reward you may be eligible for.
If you don't have enough points
- Enter the number of the subscriber to whom the savings will be transferred,
- quantity (limitations: no more than 3000 per month, only once a day and for subscribers within the same region),
- click the "Submit" button,
- confirm via SMS code.
Second transfer method:
- send an SMS to number 4555 with the text: GIFT phone_number number of points, for example: GIFT 89135467806 700
For more information about how MTS Bonus works, watch the video:
