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RBL Shoprite

Keep

Twenty points per ₹100 on the weekly shop, for ₹500 that waives itself.

₹1,000

a year at ₹40,000 a month, after the fee

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What it's worth to you, after the fee

₹600
at ₹0.25L/month
₹1,000
at ₹0.4L/month
₹2,500
at ₹1L/month

Welcome: 2,000 Reward Points — swipe within 30 days of issuance and pay the membership fee by the due date; credited within 60 days

Priced on the everyday mix — 30% groceries · 10% utilities · 20% travel · 6% fuel · 34% everything else — with this card's published category rules applied: it earns nothing on utilities and fuel here, so that spend is dropped, not paid at the headline, and stops pacing milestones and the waiver. Plus milestones, minus the fee. No accelerator credit — the ranking model on /compare adds ~20% of spend at the card's best accelerator, so its ₹ for this card reads higher.

How these numbers are computed — and why the rankings show a bigger one →

Spend tiers, milestones and fee waivers included, at our house ₹/point. Portal and category multipliers can push higher — run your exact number →

Breaks even only by erasing its fee at ₹15,000 a month

At ₹15,000 a month — ₹1,80,000 a year — on the everyday mix this card returns ₹400 gross (earn ₹400) against a fee of ₹0 — the ₹500 is waived, the spend having cleared ₹1,50,000 a year = ₹400 net — the first rung at or above ₹0. The ladder runs in ₹1,000 steps to ₹1,00,000 a month and ₹10,000 steps to ₹5,00,000; figures are rounded to the hundred, and the accelerator is never credited.

2 notes on the card itself: how it is issued · the network variants

RBL Bank · Mastercard · entry

Mastercard Visa RuPay
₹500 + GST
Annual fee1
₹1,50,000 spend
Fee waiver

The take

Shoprite is the grocery card on RBL's board and the arithmetic is refreshingly plain: 20 Reward Points per ₹100 on grocery shopping, to a ceiling of 1,000 points a month, which RBL itself describes as 5% value back "with each reward point redeemable for upto INR 0.25". The cap arrives at ₹5,000 of monthly groceries — the weekly shop for most households — and pays ₹3,000 a year against a ₹500 fee that reverses entirely on ₹1.5 lakh of eligible spend. Everything off the grocery aisle earns 1 point per ₹100, so this is not a card to put your whole life on. What makes it unusually reader-friendly is that RBL ships a live value calculator on the page and states its own point value out loud, which almost no other card in this catalogue does. It is issued on Mastercard, Visa and RuPay, and the RuPay build works on UPI — with the standard carve-out that offline UPI payments under ₹2,000 at small merchants earn nothing.

Your renewal — keep, downgrade or cancel

This card reaches break-even by ERASING its fee, not by out-earning it: the waiver is the decision.

₹1,50,000 annual spend erases that fee
₹15,000/mo is where the waiver, not the earn, saves it

the whole desk — your spend, what changed, the downgrade →

Keep, downgrade or cancel

₹500/yr at stake · 5 spend bands

The charge ₹500/yr

The waiver ₹1,50,000 of spend in the year before renewal — about ₹12,500 a month — and the renewal fee is not charged.

Break-even ₹15,000 a month — ₹1,80,000 a year — is where this card's value crosses its fee, and it gets there by erasing the fee at the waiver rather than out-earning it.

At your spend

₹600 a year, net of the fee, at ₹3,00,000 of annual spend — this clears the waiver, so no fee is charged

₹1,300 a year, net of the fee, at ₹6,00,000 of annual spend — this clears the waiver, so no fee is charged

₹2,500 a year, net of the fee, at ₹12,00,000 of annual spend — this clears the waiver, so no fee is charged

₹7,600 a year, net of the fee, at ₹36,00,000 of annual spend — this clears the waiver, so no fee is charged

₹12,600 a year, net of the fee, at ₹60,00,000 of annual spend — this clears the waiver, so no fee is charged

Everyday earn plus milestones, minus the fee — the same model as the value panel above, so the two cannot disagree. run your exact spend →

The downgrade

RBL Bank publishes no document naming a card you can step down to, so we name none — an invented product change is a phone call you would waste. That leaves keep or cancel, and the numbers above are the whole of it.

What has changed under this card

  • 23 Sep 2026 Axis EDGE brings Accor back, drops ITC, and adds Cathay, Miles & More and Hilton a program these points reach
  • 21 Aug 2026 Club ITC pays up to 50,000 bonus Green Points for spreading 10 nights across all five brands a program these points reach
  • 7 Jan 2026 RBL bolts a 1% fee onto FASTag loads and tolls — the fifth 1% line on its charge sheet issuer-wide

We price what is in force today — a change that has not happened yet is not in these numbers. the full archive for this card →

If you call to cancel

What the bank offers to keep you is the one fact this desk cannot compute. We are collecting those reports — dated, and only in aggregate — before publishing any: an offer one reader was made is not one you are owed. Called about this card? Tell us what they offered →

The desk publishes subscribable .ics feeds for the dates it knows — offer deadlines, devaluations, expiry audits. Your renewal date is not one of them: only your statement knows it.

What's good

  • 20 Reward Points per ₹100 on groceries — 5% value back, to 1,000 points a month
  • Fee reverses on ₹1.5 lakh of eligible annual spend
  • 2,000-point welcome on one swipe in 30 days plus the fee
  • 10% off BookMyShow up to ₹100, fifteen times a year
  • Available on RuPay, so it works on UPI

Watch out

  • The grocery rung stops at 1,000 points a month — about ₹5,000 of groceries
  • Everything outside groceries earns 1 point per ₹100, which is 0.25%
  • Fuel, utilities, insurance, rent, railways, wallet and miscellaneous spends earn nothing, and do not count toward the ₹1.5 lakh waiver
  • On the RuPay build, offline UPI payments under ₹2,000 at small merchants earn no points at all
  • ₹99 + GST reward-redemption fee, charged once per day you redeem
  • RBL charges 1% on FIVE transaction types its Schedule of Charges lists separately from the reward exclusions: rent (MCC 6513, on every transaction), fuel and auto above ₹10,000 a transaction (capped at ₹3,000), utility spends above ₹50,000 a month, education paid through third-party apps such as CRED, PhonePe or Paytm (school and college websites are exempt), and — with effect from 7 January 2026 — FASTag loading and tolls above ₹10,000 a transaction. These are FEES, listed nowhere near the reward exclusions: a category can both cost you 1% and earn you nothing

What these points actually fly

RBL Reward Points move to Club ITC — and that programme prices every award dynamically. There is no published chart to quote, so we quote nothing: an estimate is not a seat.

what the cards that DO reach a chart can fly — 2,196 corridors priced →

What earns, what doesn't

15 sourced rules · 8 pay zero

A ₹500 grocery card: 20 RP/₹100 on grocery (MCC 5411, 5422, 5441, 5451, 5499) to a 1,000-RP monthly ceiling, 2 RP/₹100 elsewhere. It ships on Mastercard, Visa AND RuPay, so the UPI row below is real rather than theoretical. Like Delight, RBL publishes a separate — and stricter — list for the ₹1.5 lakh annual-fee waiver.

Fuel excluded — Zero RP — "Fuel & Auto" (MCC 0032, 2541, 4001, 5542, 5541, 5172) is excluded from earn and from the waiver bar; the fuel surcharge waiver is the only fuel benefit
Rent & property management excluded — Zero RP — "Real Estate/Rental" (MCC 6513), excluded from earn and from the waiver; 1% fee on every rental transaction bank-wide (MITC)
Government / tax excluded — Zero RP since 15-Oct-2024 — "Government Services" (MCC 9400, 1490, 2490, 2995, 7800, 9406, 9222, 9405, 9399, 9211, 9402, 9401, 9311, 9223), and it does not count toward the waiver
Utilities (electricity/water/gas) excluded — Zero RP — "Utilities" (MCC 4900), excluded from earn and from the waiver; Bills2Pay named separately. 1% fee past ₹50,000 a month (MITC)
Insurance excluded — Zero RP — "Insurance" (MCC 6300, 6310) and "Miscellaneous" (MCC 5960); neither counts toward the waiver
Education excluded — Zero RP since 15-Oct-2024 — "Education" (MCC 8220, 8244, 8249, 8211, 8241, 8299), struck from the waiver bar the same day
Wallet loads excluded — Zero RP — "Wallet/Service Providers" (MCC 6540), on neither the earn nor the waiver side
Groceries & supermarkets accelerated — 20 RP/₹100 on grocery — RBL defines it as MCC 5411, 5422, 5441, 5451 and 5499 — capped at 1,000 RP a month, so roughly ₹5,000 of grocery a cycle exhausts it and the rest earns the base 2 RP/₹100. Every rupee still counts toward the ₹1.5 lakh waiver
Dining & food delivery full — Absent from both exclusion lists — the base 2 RP/₹100, counting in full toward the waiver. Food delivery billed as grocery (5411) picks up the 20 RP/₹100 rate instead
Travel (airlines, hotels, transit) full — Airlines, hotels and OTAs earn the base rate and count toward the waiver; "Railways" (MCC 0066, 4011, 4112) does neither
Telecom full — Telecom (MCC 4814) is on neither exclusion list — base 2 RP/₹100, counts toward the waiver (inferred from absence, flag)
Jewellery / gold full — Jewellery (MCC 5944, 5094) is on neither exclusion list — base rate, counts toward the waiver (inferred from absence, flag)
Forex / international spends full — Base 2 RP/₹100 on international spend, counting toward the waiver, with RBL's 3.5% currency-conversion assessment on top (MITC)
UPI (RuPay-on-UPI only) capped — The RuPay variant links to UPI and earns the card's ordinary rate — with one published hole: "offline UPI transactions under INR 2000 done at small merchants on RBL Bank RuPay Credit Card will not be eligible for rewards points, voucher benefits, milestone benefits or any other product benefits", where a small merchant is one turning over ₹20 lakh or less in the previous financial year. The Mastercard and Visa variants cannot link to UPI at all
EMI conversions / merchant EMI excluded — An EMI conversion earns no base reward points (MITC, bank-wide) and is explicitly excluded from the ₹1.5 lakh waiver calculation
  • Fuel · excluded Zero RP — "Fuel & Auto" (MCC 0032, 2541, 4001, 5542, 5541, 5172) is excluded from earn and from the waiver bar; the fuel surcharge waiver is the only fuel benefit
  • Rent & property management · excluded Zero RP — "Real Estate/Rental" (MCC 6513), excluded from earn and from the waiver; 1% fee on every rental transaction bank-wide (MITC)
  • Wallet loads · excluded Zero RP — "Wallet/Service Providers" (MCC 6540), on neither the earn nor the waiver side
  • Utilities (electricity/water/gas) · excluded Zero RP — "Utilities" (MCC 4900), excluded from earn and from the waiver; Bills2Pay named separately. 1% fee past ₹50,000 a month (MITC)

per RBL Bank T&C · rank every card by spend category →

Does your spend count toward the fee waiver?

15 of 15 categories answered

₹1,50,000 a year is the bar that waives the ₹500 fee. A different question from the one above — earning points and counting toward a threshold are separate rules, and issuers write them separately.

Put your number in

/month

₹80,000 a month of rent & property management is ₹9,60,000 a year that counts ₹0 toward the fee waiver.

Fuel No — fuel counts ₹0 toward the fee waiver.
Rent & property management No — rent & property management counts ₹0 toward the fee waiver.
Government / tax No — government / tax counts ₹0 toward the fee waiver.
Utilities (electricity/water/gas) No — utilities (electricity/water/gas) counts ₹0 toward the fee waiver.
Insurance No — insurance counts ₹0 toward the fee waiver.
Education No — education counts ₹0 toward the fee waiver.
Wallet loads No — wallet loads counts ₹0 toward the fee waiver.
Groceries & supermarkets Yes — groceries & supermarkets counts in full toward the fee waiver.
Dining & food delivery Yes — dining & food delivery counts in full toward the fee waiver.
Travel (airlines, hotels, transit) Yes — travel (airlines, hotels, transit) counts in full toward the fee waiver.
Telecom Yes — telecom counts in full toward the fee waiver.
Jewellery / gold Yes — jewellery / gold counts in full toward the fee waiver.
Forex / international spends Yes — forex / international spends counts in full toward the fee waiver.
UPI (RuPay-on-UPI only) Yes — upi (rupay-on-upi only) counts in full toward the fee waiver.
EMI conversions / merchant EMI No — emi conversions / merchant emi counts ₹0 toward the fee waiver.

"W.e.f. October 15, 2024, waiver of annual fees on achieving the annual spends will not include purchases made on select merchant categories: Fuel & Auto, Utilities, Insurance, Quasi-Cash, Railways, Real Estate/Rental, Education, Wallet/Service Providers, Government Services, Contracted Services, Cash, Miscellaneous & Bills2Pay and EMI conversion of retail transactions (Split-N-Pay & EMI conversion requests placed at the time of making transactions at POS/Web/Mobile App), fees (if any), charges & GST." The ₹500 fee is waived on ₹1.5 lakh of eligible annual spend

15 of 15 categories answered · per RBL Bank's own document · in force since 2024-10-15

Lounge access

0 of 793 tracked doors

No lounge access. This card opens exactly 0 of 793 tracked lounge doors — board with the crowd, or find a card that doesn't →

Can you get it?

the route in — no cutoffs published

The cutoffs and the actual route in — not the "apply now" button, the door that opens.

Route Direct application
Income · salaried not published
Income · self-employed not published
Age band not published

Direct application — no invite list, no banking relationship required.

RBL Bank publishes no income or age cutoffs for this card. Blank means blank — we don't invent numbers to fill a grid.

per the official RBL Bank MITC — figures marked (community) aren't in the PDF; the issuer won't say · filter the board by what you can get →

The fine print

7 of 7 MITC rows published

What the MITC actually says — the rates, fees and cutoffs the brochure skips.

Forex markup Up to 3.5% on foreign-currency, dynamic and static conversion transactions; also levied on rupee transactions at an international location or at a merchant registered overseas
APR Up to 3.99%/mo (47.88%/yr) on both revolving credit and cash advances; interest-free grace period up to 50 days
Late fee 12.5% of the total outstanding amount, min ₹5, max ₹1,300
Cash advance 2.5% of the cash amount withdrawn, min ₹500
Add-on card ₹200/yr per add-on card
Overlimit Nil
Redemption fee ₹99 + GST per redemption day — one fee covers all redemptions made that day; the exempt list is Lumière, Nova, Insignia, Insignia Prime and World Xclusive only

RBL Bank MITC cum Key Fact Statement, read 2026-08-17, plus the Schedule of Charges RBL-CC-SOC-V2-12-12-2025. FEE COLUMN PROVENANCE: RBL's tables have two columns headed "Annual membership Fee (1st year)" and "Annual membership Fee (2nd year onwards)" and they are NOT inverted — the first is the charge to GET the card, the second is the recurring charge. This card: Shoprite ₹500/₹500, NIL on eligible annual spends of ₹1.5 lakh or more. RBL publishes no income or age criteria for any card in the MITC. Other card-wide charges: cash deposit at an RBL branch ₹100; cheque return or auto-debit reversal ₹500; merchant EMI processing 1.5% or ₹150, whichever is higher; 1% on rent (MCC 6513); 1% on fuel and auto transactions above ₹10,000, capped ₹3,000; 1% on utility spends above ₹50,000 a month; 1% on education payments made through third-party apps; 1% on FASTag loading and toll transactions above ₹10,000 with effect from 7 January 2026; fuel surcharge 1% or ₹10, whichever is higher. All charges attract GST at 18%.

per the official RBL Bank MITC · reviewed 10 Jul 2026

What's changed for this card

6 dated changes

Full tracker →

Devaluations and buffs that touch this card directly, its issuer, or the points and programs it earns and transfers to. Every one is dated here; the tracker carries each one's before → after and the write-up.

  • 23 Sept 2026
    Partner major Axis Bank
    Axis EDGE brings Accor back, drops ITC, and adds Cathay, Miles & More and Hilton
    Accor and Marriott off the grid since 2 April 2026; Club ITC live; no Cathay, Miles & More or Hilton → Accor live at the punished rates; ITC removed; Cathay, Hilton and Miles & More live; Marriott still gone

    Axis's own Travel EDGE terms, re-read 25 September 2026, already show the grid that went live on 23 September. Accor ALL is back, and not at the old Atlas 1:2: EDGE Miles convert at 2:1 (Olympus 1:2) and EDGE Rewards at 5:1, with Magnus for Burgundy at 5:2 and only Burgundy Private still at 5:4. Club ITC is off the table. Three partners are new. Cathay Asia Miles sits on that same punished grid. Hilton Honors is the ordinary one: EDGE Miles 1:2, EDGE Rewards 5:2, Burgundy 5:4. Lufthansa Miles & More is the exception on Atlas, which converts 1:1 there while every other standard airline on that card is 1:2; the EDGE Rewards side of Miles & More is the ordinary 5:2. Marriott stays removed. Qatar Privilege Club was already back. Flying Blue, Air India and Qantas moved into Group A, which is the capped group. The Axis Rewards credit card's Amex network is advertised as joining-fee and annual-fee nil for a limited period; there is no separate Amex variant on this board, so that offer is not modelled as a fee change.

  • 22 Aug 2026
    Launch minor RBL Bank
    RBL relaunches the Shoppers Stop co-brand as a Gold / Platinum / Black trio
  • 21 Aug 2026
    Buff minor Club ITC
    Club ITC pays up to 50,000 bonus Green Points for spreading 10 nights across all five brands
  • 7 Jan 2026
    Fee minor RBL Bank
    RBL bolts a 1% fee onto FASTag loads and tolls — the fifth 1% line on its charge sheet
  • 1 Jul 2025
    Lounge moderate RBL Bank
    RBL gates domestic lounges behind ₹35k a quarter
  • 15 Oct 2024
    Devaluation moderate RBL Bank
    RBL strips points from education, government and wallet spends