The best ways to use and earn Tesco Clubcard points

There are now new ways to earn Clubcard points with more than 500 partners

The Clubcard has become pretty essential when shopping at Tesco. It’s now launched a new shopping portal that lets you earn points when you spend with 500 partners via the Tesco app or website. Here are the best ways to earn Clubcard points, what they’re worth and how to use them to get the best value.

What are Tesco Clubcard points worth?

You’ll get one Clubcard point for every £1 you spend at Tesco.

If you spend them in-store on your groceries, 100 Clubcard points are worth £1, so that means they have a base value of 1p each. And if you’ve got 1,000 points, then they’d be worth £10, and so on.

• 1 Clubcard point = 1p
• 2 Clubcard points = 2p
• 100 Clubcard points = £1
• 200 Clubcard points = £2
• 500 Clubcard points = £5
• 1,000 Clubcard points = £10
• 2,500 Clubcard points = £25
• 5,000 Clubcard points = £50

This means earning Clubcard points is the equivalent of getting 1% back on your shopping at Tesco.

But they can be worth more through Reward Partners (previously called Clubcard Boost). Here you swap your Clubcard points for vouchers to spend elsewhere.

There used to be variable boosts. Some doubled your points, some tripled, and (pretty rarely) some even quadrupled. However, this changed in June 2023, so points are now doubled when swapped with reward partners.

How to get a Clubcard

Tesco Clubcard is a free reward scheme. You can sign up on the Clubcard website or download the Tesco app. By default, you’ll get a digital card, but you can request a physical one if you think you’ll use it.

How to earn Clubcard points

In-store and online

You can earn Clubcard points every time you shop in-store at Tesco stores and online. That includes spending at F&F Clothing, Tesco Mobile, Tesco Café and Pharmacy. If you get the Delivery Saver plan, you’ll also earn points on what you spend on it.

There are sometimes chances to earn extra Tesco Clubcard points in the mobile app and on the website under “Coupons” and with Clubcard challenges, where you can get extra points for buying specific products or hitting spending goals. You’ll earn 1 point per £1 spent at Tesco.

Fuel and charging

You earn 1 point for every two litres you fill up whenever you buy fuel at a Tesco petrol station, and the usual 1 point per £1 spent on shopping inside the petrol station and at car washes. You’ll also earn points at Esso petrol stations with a Tesco-branded shop. Here, you’ll get 2 points for every £3 spent on Supreme+ fuel.

Electric car owners don’t lose out, either. You can earn points when you charge your car at Pod Point locations at Tesco stores. You get 1 point for every £1 you spend.

Tesco Bank

If you have a Clubcard Credit Card, you can earn more points. You get 5 points for every £4 spent at Tesco, and you get 1 point for every £4 spent on Tesco fuel and a point for each litre.

Plus, you get points when you use your credit card anywhere else. It’s paid as 1 point per £8 spent.

Partners

Tesco launched its new Clubcard Points Partner platform on 14 October, which allows you to earn points on spending at other retailers.

There are 500 retailers on the platform, including a lot of big names, including Nike, ASOS, Anthropologie, Lego, trainline and Look Fantastic.

A lot of retailers pay 1 point per £1 spent, although some are offering as many as 4 points for each £1. Some retailers have offers running to boost the amount you can earn, so at the time of writing, you can get 8 points per £1 spent with Look Fantastic and a huge 12 points per £1 spent at Selfridges. We expect that the offers will rotate throughout the year.

To get the points, you just need to log in to the Tesco website or app and head to the ‘Clubcard’ section. Here, you’ll see a banner of ‘Points Partners’, which lets you browse the different retailers available. There’s also a new tab on the website.

It works similarly to a cashback website — you just click through to the retailer from the Clubcard app or website, and it’ll track the spending you do there (just make sure you accept cookies). The points won’t hit your account immediately — they’ll appear as pending to start with, and you’ll get an email to tell you when to expect them.

This new platform is a great way to earn points at retailers that don’t have their own loyalty schemes, or where you don’t shop often enough to make good use of them. Plus, if you make a reasonably large purchase, it’s definitely nice to earn some points from it.

However, don’t get into a habit of choosing a retailer just because it’s part of the platform. Remember to still compare prices elsewhere.

How to use Tesco Clubcard points

You can’t spend Clubcard points until they have been converted into Clubcard vouchers. And to do this you need a minimum of 150 Clubcard points (the equivalent of £1.50). Points will only be swapped in multiples of 50.

You used to get sent these in the post with your Clubcard statement, which is sent every three months in February, May, August and November.

However this moved online for most customers in 2022. If you’ve used Tesco online you’ll get your statement and vouchers via email, unless you actively tell Tesco you still want them in the post.

A better way to convert points to vouchers is via the Faster Vouchers process as you don’t have to wait for the statement. You’ll only get a digital voucher via this method. Again you’ll need at least 150 points to convert them.

Whether paper or digital vouchers you can spend them in any Tesco store or on the Tesco online as part or full payment towards your shopping.

If you swap them with a Reward Partner you need to do this via the Clubcard website. These boosts will often have minimum levels (e.g. 50 points), and you can only swap increments of that amount (e.g. if you have 120 points you can only use 100 points).

How long do Clubcard vouchers last?

When you’re issued a Tesco Clubcard voucher, it’s valid for 2 years. Faster vouchers last 21 months from the date they are exchanged.

You can check if you’ve got any vouchers and their expiration dates in your Clubcard account.

Clubcard deals and promotions

There are a few ways to use your Clubcard to save more money at Tesco.

Tesco Clubcard coupons

Some customers have access to personalised coupons via the Tesco app. These coupons are tailored to your shopping, so hopefully that means you’ll see discounts for products you buy. They won’t all be money off; some could get you extra Clubcard points instead. If you do get the vouchers, you’ll find them via the Clubcard tab, in a section called ‘coupons’.

Tesco Clubcard Plus

This premium service costs £7.99 a month, and benefits include 10% off two shops every month. It looks like a good scheme for regular Tesco shoppers. Andy’s review of Clubcard Plus weighs up the cost against the benefits of it and includes details on how to get it.

Tesco Clubcard Prices

Tesco lets you use your Clubcard to access lower prices for selected groceries in-store and online. You don’t need any points on your Clubcard, you just need to scan it when you shop.

The best ways to spend Tesco Clubcard vouchers

There are actually hundreds of options, so we’ve scanned through them to find the best uses of your Clubcard points.

Charities

You can choose to donate your Clubcard points to food poverty charities Fareshare and The Trussell Trust. You can also give to the British Heart Foundation, Cancer Research and Diabetes UK.

Sadly, Tesco doesn’t boost these donations as it does with other offers, which I think is a shame. Still, if you have at least 50p in vouchers, you can swap them.

Disney +

You can swap £18 worth of points for a three-month standard Disney+ subscription or £10.50 worth of points for a three-month standard with ads subscription. Both new and existing Disney+ users can take advantage.

Sometimes the offer is temporarily improved, for example, six months for the same price. There are other ways to save on Disney+.

Days out

Fancy paying less when going to the zoo? A theme park? Museum? All of these are available at a discount.

A lot of the “days out” used to be quadruple points and have been reduced to double, but they still represent decent value. It’s worth checking to see there isn’t a better offer out there. One saving which is hard to beat is using your points for double credit towards an English Heritage or RHS membership.

It’s worth checking out other ways to save on days out if you go out a lot, as some discounts might be greater.

Cinema tickets

You can use your points to get cut-price cinema tickets, again at double value. So 50p in vouchers will get you £1 to spend. You can only use your Clubcard points to visit Cineworld or Picturehouse.

You can also use your points towards the Cineworld Unlimited pass.

Theatre tickets

You can sometimes get theatre tickets. The 2x value applies to vouchers to use on the booking page of the show.

Railcards

If you regularly travel by train then a railcard can save you money every time you travel, and one of the cheapest ways to get one is by using your Clubcard points.

You can trade £2.50 in vouchers to get £5 credit towards your railcard. It works for most types of railcard.

Bonus airline points

If you already save airline points, this is a great way to get more. You can convert your Clubcard points (with a minimum value of £1.50) to Virgin points at twice their value; so 1 Clubcard point is worth 2 Virgin points.

There are often bonus offers when you sign up to auto-exchange your Clubcard points to Virgin points for the first time, so it’s a good idea to wait for one of those before setting up the auto-exchange.

Magazine subscriptions

You can convert a minimum of 50p in Clubcard vouchers to get a £1 voucher to go towards a subscription.

Of course, you can get other subscriber deals elsewhere, which give good discounts, so do a quick search of your chosen magazine to see if you can get it cheaper.

This isn’t the best way to save on magazines though – you can get them for free! Read about our hack to get free digital magazines 

Tesco Mobile bills

You can use your points to reduce the cost of your mobile bill. It’s only 1:1 rather than double, so you may as well use your points in-store.

At Tesco

There was a time, not too long ago, that you’d be a fool not to swap Clubcard points with a reward partner. But in the last few years, the best offers have disappeared.

There are still lots of options, but whether they’re worth it comes down to two factors. One: Do you want or need what you’re swapping for? Two: Can you get that partner offer discounted elsewhere?

If it’s no for the first, or yes for the second, then you’re most probably better off using the points at Tesco – at least you’ll actually need food and drink!

Clubcard deals to avoid

Though you can save money by boosting your points in these areas, I think you can get similar savings elsewhere – meaning you should boost your points on the more valuable discounts listed above.

Restaurants

Even when these were 4x value, we advised that you could spend your points better elsewhere than at the chain restaurants included in Clubcard Boost. And now they are double instead, the deal is worse.

That’s because you can get decent discounts for the likes of Pizza Express and Bella Italia elsewhere. A simple google often brings up voucher codes for 40% off or two for one. Plus you can save at more places more often with a Tastecard trial.

So let’s say you’ve gone to Pizza Express and the final bill came to £30, it would have cost you £15 via Clubcard vouchers, or £15 via Tastecard or another voucher.

You may be able to double up these discounts, though there’s no guarantee.

List of Tesco Clubcard restaurants:

• Ask Italian
• Bella Italia
• Brew Dog Bars
• Cafe Rouge
• Chef & Brewer
• Hungry Horse pubs
• Pizza Express
• Prezzo
• Zizzi

Hotels

It’s similar with converting your Clubcard vouchers to spend on hotels. Though you can get double value on points to spend at Hotels.com and one or two other brands, you’re locked into booking direct with those websites, which might not offer the best rates available. We think you’re better off searching for the lowest prices elsewhere, and then using your points at one of the options above.