What's New on BidMiles — April 2026
A lot has changed on BidMiles over the past few weeks. Here's a rundown of everything that's new.
New auction sources
The biggest expansion: we've added Emirates Skywards Exclusives and Qantas Points to the platform. Both are now scraped automatically alongside the existing programs.
Emirates Skywards Exclusives is a curated marketplace of luxury experiences — think private events, travel packages, and one-of-a-kind access — all priced in Skywards miles. The experiences tend to skew high-end, but the cpp math can be interesting depending on how you value your miles.
Qantas Points has a robust auction catalog, particularly for Australian experiences. Getting it running required building a scraper that could navigate their anti-bot protections, but it's live and updating hourly. If you hold Qantas Points, there's now a place to see what's on offer without digging through their site.
BidMiles now covers 16 loyalty programs in one place.
Accounts, logins, and favoriting
You can now create an account on BidMiles. This unlocks a few things:
Favorite listings — save any listing and come back to it from your account page. Useful for tracking things you're watching but aren't ready to bid on yet.
Persistent preferences — your filters and settings carry across sessions.
Alerts tied to your account — more on that below.
Account creation is free. You can sign up with email, and standard features (password reset, email confirmation, account deletion) are all in place.
Smarter price alerts
Alerts have been reworked to be more useful and less noisy:
• Multi-program alerts: set a single alert across multiple programs at once instead of creating one per source.
• Deduplication: if the same listing triggers multiple conditions, you get one email — not several.
• Batching: alerts that fire close together are grouped into a single digest rather than a flood of individual messages.
If you set up alerts before this change, they'll continue to work. New alerts created through your account will benefit from all three improvements automatically.
Redesigned homepage
The homepage has been reworked to lead with the core value proposition more clearly: you earn points through everyday spending, then redeem them for experiences that would cost a lot more in cash. The old version assumed too much prior knowledge. The new version explains the flow — bank points transfer to loyalty programs, which run auctions and fixed-price sales — so it's easier to understand what BidMiles is actually for without already being in the hobby.
The hero also now shows a live snapshot of active listings across programs, so you land on the page and immediately see what's available.
Card and listing improvements
A few quality-of-life improvements to the listing cards:
Freshness indicators — cards now show how recently a listing was last seen, so you can tell at a glance if something is still active and current.
Source badges with program colors — each card shows which program it's from, using that program's brand colors. Makes it easier to scan a mixed list and quickly identify sources you care about.
Buy It Now labels — fixed-price listings are more clearly differentiated from auctions in the card layout.
What's next
We're continuing to expand the program list and improve how alerts work. If there's a loyalty program you'd like to see added, or a feature that would make the site more useful for how you track redemptions, reach out — the roadmap is shaped largely by what people are actually asking for.