Standard Chartered Ultimate Credit Card Review 2022

The Standard Chartered Ultimate Credit Card is a premium level credit card from Standard Chartered Bank. This card is has recently updated its rewards system. This card has rewards as well as cashback benefits along with Lounge and Golf benefits. Hence, can be considered as a Golf Card as well.

In this article we are going to provide you all the latest updates and details about the Standard Chartered Ultimate Credit Card in 2022 and provide a complete review of the same.

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Key Highlights of Standard Chartered Ultimate Credit Card

• Complementary access to Golf courses
• 5% cashback of duty free shopping at airport
• Effective reward benefit of 3.3%
• 1 Reward point = 1 Rupee

Joining and Renewal benefits

The Joining and Renewal benefits of Standard Chartered Ultimate Credit Card are as follows:

• You get a joining benefit of 6000 Reward Points.
• You get a renewal benefit of 5000 Reward Points.

Review: The joining and renewal benefit is good, as the value of 1 reward point is equal to 1 Rupee. So, effectively, you get the joining and renewal fee waived.

Reward and Cashback structure

The Reward and Cashback structure of Standard Chartered Ultimate Credit Card are as below:

• 5 Reward Points per Rs 150 spend (The makes the effective return rate of 3.3%)
• 5% cashback on duty-free spends in Airports.
• You get reward points on the SC Ultimate credit card even if the transaction value is less than Rs 150. You get the proportional reward in such cases. For example, if you spend Rs 90, you get 3 reward points.
• Another good thing about this card is that you get reward points, even for wallet reloads and insurance premium payments. Which makes this card stand out from others a bit.
• No upper caps on rewards

Review: 3.3% return rate is good. Also 5% cashback on duty free airport shopping is good as well. But not many people like to shop at airport. But if you are one of them who travels a lot and shops at airport duty-free shops, then this card can be beneficial for you. Partial reward points and rewards on insurance payment would help to get some more rewards compared to other cards.

Complimentary Airport Lounge Access

The Standard Chartered Ultimate Credit Card offers 1 Complimentary Airport Lounge Access per month but there is a condition. You get this offer only if you spend more than Rs 20,000 in the previous month using the card.

Review: This is a negative point on the card. A premium card must have Airport Lounge access for free, without any type of condition. This makes this card fall behind compared to other premium cards.

Golf Program

• 1 complimentary Golf games per month
• 1 complimentary coaching session per month

Review: The Golf Program looks good and the facility of coaching sessions is an eye catching benefit.

Fees and Charges

The Standard Chartered Ultimate Credit Card comes with an joining and annual fee of Rs 5000 plus taxes. Hence, this is a premium card.

The Supplementary card is FREE, without any joining or renewal fee.

Eligibility Criteria and Documents Required

The Bank does not mention exact salary entry criteria. They only mention the customer must have a stable income. But looking at the annual fee of Rs 5000, we can understand, that the stable income amount needed must be on the higher side.

But, if you have an existing Standard Chartered credit card with more than Rs 4 Lakhs limit, you can get this card through card-on-card basis.

Standard Chartered Ultimate credit card eligibility:

Age: Applicant’s age should be between 21 and 65.

Monthly Income: Applicant should have a stable monthly income.

Other Requirements:

• Applicant should belong to credit cards sourcing cities/locations of the Bank.
• All applications are subject to credit and other policy checks of the Bank.

Documents needed to apply Standard Chartered Ultimate credit card:

• Identity Proof (Any One of the following Photo cards): Passport, PAN Card, Voter Id Card, Govt ID, etc
• Address Proof (Any One of the following documents with current residence address): Aadhar Card, Passport, Driving License, Election/Voter’s ID Card,Job card issued by NREGA duly signed by an officer of the State Government, The letter issued by the National Population Register containing details of name, address.
• 1 recent passport-sized Photograph
  Financial Documents: Salaried: Latest one month salary slip.
• Self Employed Businessmen: Latest IT Returns with computation of income /Certified Financials, Last Business Continuity proof
  Self Employed Professionals: Latest IT Returns, Business Continuity proof.

Financial documents:

• Salaried: Latest one month salary slip
• Self Employed Businessmen: Latest IT Returns with computation of income /Certified Financials, Last Business Continuity proof
• Self Employed Professionals: Latest IT Returns, Business Continuity proof OR
• You can also apply on the basis of Other bank credit card statement.

Rewards Redemption

1 reward point on the Standard Chartered Ultimate credit card has value of Rs 1.

There categories for reward redemption as as follows:

• Electronics
• Home and Family
• Lifestyle 
• Travel
• Charity: You can donate points to different charity organizations.
• Gift Vouchers: You can convert your points to gift vouchers of different brands as shops. But remember Amazon and Flipkart are NOT one of the brands in the list.

Conclusion

The Standard Chartered Ultimate credit card has modified its benefits recently. The above said benefits are the new benefits that it provides. But if we compare it with the old benefits, then it looks less attractive compared to the old benefits. Earlier there were much more offers, which has been reduced in the latest reward structure.

Hence, considering this card as a premium card, its benefits are not that worthy compared to the other premium cards available in the market. But if you are one who loves to play Golf and do a lot of airport shopping then you can consider this card. On the other hand, the reward rate of 3.3% is and the partial reward points benefit with no exclusions, does makes this card a bit good.

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