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By David Aamodt

For new, growing and established businesses with heavy travel needs seeking to establish themselves--and their credit--few business credit cards are as ideal as the Discover Business Miles Card. The card offers some business-oriented features, including free cards for employees with customizable spending limits, extensive travel benefits, travel-specific rewards and, most importantly, no annual fee. Proprietors looking to achieve their business goals, while remaining flexible enough to cover the unforeseen day-to-day expenses, need look no further than the Discover Business Miles Card.

Strengths

  • Double Miles Rewards for Select Gas and Travel Purchases
  • No cost or annual fee for additional employee cards
  •  0% fraud liability guarantee

Weaknesses

  • Variable Interest Rates
  • Pre-Set Spending Limit
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Card Features:   Excellent

The Discover Business Miles Card offers an impressive rewards accrual rate for travel, which accrues at a double rate with the purchase of gas and other travel expenditures. Discover Business Miles Card members can redeem these miles towards travel as well as gift cards, charitable donations and cash back. Discover also provides for its Business Miles Card members the deepest set of travel benefits and insurance protections without charging an annual fee.

Business Features:   Excellent

The Discover Business Miles Card, like the AT&T Universal Rewards, offers both quarterly and annual categorized statements, with all balance statements being available online for download and integration into QuickBooks for improved accounting. One area the Discover Business miles Card and AT&T Universal Rewards Card differ in, however, is in annual fees for primary and all subsequent authorized cardholders: Discover Business Miles Card doesn't have any annual fees for either, AT&T Universal Rewards does.

Membership Features:   Excellent

For having no annual fees, Discover does, in fact, offer members a fair amount of benefits, protections and insurances. Most of these are fairly standard for credit cards, such as rental car loss and damage insurance and travel accident insurance. But, considering there is no fee, which is generally levied in order to extend similar benefits, this is an appealing membership feature. Members are also guaranteed direct customer service phone support within 60 seconds or less.

Security Features:   Excellent

The Discover Business Miles Card offers a 0% fraud liability guarantee in addition to the standard anti-fraud and misuse measures that are critical for credit cards and transactions. These include early detection monitoring with advanced warning and secure online account numbers for improved online purchase security. Additional services and security products, such as the Discover Account Guard, are also available for a monthly fee, but Discover provides dedicated 24/7 fraud specialists for all cardholders, regardless of their enrollment in additional products.

Account Access/Customer Service:   Excellent

Accounts can be accessed and maintained almost entirely online, with live phone support guaranteed within 60 seconds. Discover also hosts a resources portal within its official website filled with financial planning and financial strategy materials.

Summary:  

The Discover Business Miles Card is a good fit for a smaller business with heavy domestic travel needs. It still remains an also-ran when compared alongside other business credit cards like the American Express Business Platinum and Business Gold cards for travel benefits, membership features and insurance protections. However, with no annual fee for primary and employee cards, the Discover Business Miles Card still does hold its own.

 
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Business Credit Card Review

Discover Business Miles Card 2010

Website: Discover Bank
Version: 2010
Very Good
Overall Rating
Very Good
Card Features
Excellent
Business Features
Very Good
Membership Features
Very Good
Rewards Features
Very Good
Security Features
Very Good
Account Access/Customer Service
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