8 Tips on How to Save More Money at Starbucks

When you register your Starbucks Reward Card, one thing to let them know is your birthday. So on that big day, Starbucks will load a Free Birthday Reward on your card, and you will have just that day to redeem (used to be 3 days). You can have anything! It can be a handcrafted beverage, food items, or ready-to-drink bottled drinks. The Starbucks app will be helpful to add your favorite drink, customize your favorite flavor and topping, and have it ready when you arrive at the store.

It is so nice to sit at Starbucks, drink hot/iced coffee or tea, and enjoy music. What makes it even better is when you order your tea or brewed coffee, you will get FREE refills during the same store visit using your Starbucks app. In a hot day, get a iced coffee with caramel, splashed with cream/milk, it’s just great! You can repeat this again and again as long as you are in store!

A venti-sized drink is 24oz, and you want to share it with your friend, this is a great trick. To do this, you will have to order your drink in-store since the app doesn’t have to option to add notes. I have ordered a Venti Caramel Frappuccino and asked the barista to split into 2 tall cups with beautiful and tasty whipped cream on each.

$0.10 is not much, but the cause is meaningful. To reuse your cup helps saving the world! You can try to bring a competitor’s cup and see if you will get a discount maybe?

Whenever I order my drink, my kids always wonder what it is or how it tastes like, I feel bad sometimes just the way they look at my drink. Thank to Starbuck’s free whipped cream! I usually ask the barista to add a little bit of that to a separate cup, and they are just so excited! They also call it “dog treats”, so if you want to give your dog a little treat, go for it!

If you order a iced tea, you will be surprised how much ice it’s in there. After a few sips, the drink is gone. So next time when you order iced drinks, you can order no ice or with less ice. You can also do this on the Starbucks app. I have ordered the Pink Drink on the app with no ice and planning to get a cup of ice separately when I arrived at the store, but the nice barista had already prepared a cup of ice for me when I went to pick up my drink. I splited the ice and the drink and made two drinks!

When you have 125 Starbucks stars, you can redeem a free handcrafted drink or food for free. At least once every week, Starbucks will load an offer to earn extra stars. For example, when you purchase 3 drinks, you will earn additional 125 stars; get double stars on a particular day; load a gift card, and get 50 bonus stars. The Starbucks app is a great tool to start earning your free drink.

There are a lot of free online programs for you to earn points and redeem Starbucks. You can check out here to see a list of websites and start earning points.