TVS Credit RBL Bank
Downgrade₹500 for a railway lounge visit a quarter — the cheapest door on the RBL shelf, and the only one that isn't an airport.
a year at ₹40,000 a month, after the fee
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What it's worth to you, after the fee
Welcome: 2,000 Reward Points on one eligible retail transaction within 30 days of issuance and payment of the annual fee — 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 →
Pays for itself at ₹15,000 a month
At ₹15,000 a month — ₹1,80,000 a year — on the everyday mix this card returns ₹900 gross (earn ₹400 + milestones ₹500) against its ₹500 fee = ₹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
The take
This is the base rung of RBL's TVS Credit pairing (the Gold sibling, also in this batch, adds an international airport lounge for ₹1,000 more), and its only travel benefit is an EXECUTIVE RAILWAY LOUNGE — 1 complimentary visit every calendar quarter, with NO airport lounge and no spend threshold stated anywhere in the T&C. At ₹500 a year it is the cheapest lounge door on RBL's shelf, full stop, and it clears this board on that gate alone. Everything else is minimal by design: 1 Reward Point per ₹100 offline (0.25% at ₹0.25 a point), 2 online (0.5%) to a 1,000-point monthly cap, a 2,000-point welcome and a single 2,000-point milestone at ₹1.5 lakh of annual spend. On the RuPay variant, offline UPI transactions under ₹2,000 at small merchants earn nothing at all — RBL's own footnote. Hold it only for the railway lounge; there is nothing here for a flight.
Your renewal — keep, downgrade or cancel
Here is the fee, the spend that clears it, and everything that has moved under this card since you last decided.
Keep, downgrade or cancel
₹500/yr at stake · 5 spend bands
The charge ₹500/yr
Break-even ₹15,000 a month — ₹1,80,000 a year — is where this card's value crosses its fee.
At your spend
₹600 a year, net of the fee, at ₹3,00,000 of annual spend
₹1,300 a year, net of the fee, at ₹6,00,000 of annual spend
₹2,500 a year, net of the fee, at ₹12,00,000 of annual spend
₹7,600 a year, net of the fee, at ₹36,00,000 of annual spend
₹12,600 a year, net of the fee, at ₹60,00,000 of annual spend
Everyday earn plus milestones, minus the fee — the same model as the value panel above, so the two cannot disagree. run your exact spend →
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The downgrade
RBL Bank / TVS Credit 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 →
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What's good
- 1 complimentary Executive Railway lounge visit every calendar quarter — no airport lounge, and no spend threshold in the T&C
- ₹500 a year — the cheapest lounge-carrying card on RBL's shelf
- 2 Reward Points per ₹100 (0.5%) online, to a 1,000-point monthly cap
Watch out
- This is a RAILWAY lounge, not an airport lounge — the whole travel benefit is a stop on a train journey
- 1 Reward Point per ₹100 (0.25%) offline — the thinnest base rate this batch found, tied with Patanjali Swarn
- 3.5% forex markup — this is a domestic card
- Offline UPI transactions under ₹2,000 at small merchants (≤₹20 lakh turnover) earn nothing, per RBL's RuPay footnote
- 1 point = ₹0.05 on any redemption that is not a flight or a hotel, plus a ₹99 + GST fee per redemption day
- 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
13 sourced rules · 8 pay zero
TVS Credit splits its earn by CHANNEL rather than category: 1 Reward Point per ₹100 offline/POS and 2 per ₹100 online, the online rate capped at 1,000 points a billing cycle. The exclusion table (§3.7) strips the same spend from both rates, from the ₹10,000-a-month BookMyShow threshold and from the ₹1.5 lakh milestone. Note that Railways is on that list — the card whose only lounge is a railway lounge pays nothing for the train ticket.
- Fuel · excluded No points — "Fuel & Auto" (MCC 0032, 2541, 4001, 5542, 5541, 5172) sits on the T&C's own category/MCC exclusion table; the 1% fuel surcharge waiver is the only fuel benefit
- Rent & property management · excluded No points — "Real Estate/Rental" (MCC 6513) on the T&C's own category/MCC exclusion table. RBL also levies a 1% fee on every rental transaction, bank-wide
- Wallet loads · excluded No points — "Wallet/Service Providers" (MCC 6540) on the T&C's own category/MCC exclusion table
- Utilities (electricity/water/gas) · excluded No points — "Utilities" (MCC 4900) on the T&C's own category/MCC exclusion table. RBL also levies a 1% fee on utility spend past ₹50,000 a month, bank-wide
per RBL Bank / TVS Credit T&C · rank every card by spend category →
Does your spend count toward the milestones?
not published — and we say which
₹1,50,000 a year is the bar for the first milestone. A different question from the one above — earning points and counting toward a threshold are separate rules, and issuers write them separately.
Not published. RBL Bank / TVS Credit states what the TVS Credit RBL Bank earns and does not earn, but has not published which spend categories count toward the milestones — the ₹1,50,000 bar. We won't guess it from the earn table or from a sibling card: Axis published three cards' rules on one day and all three lists differed. If you hold this card and have it in writing from the issuer, send us the document and we'll source it.
Lounge access
21 of 793 tracked doors
Opens 21 of 793 tracked lounge doors across 19 railway stations , via DreamFolks Railway — see the full map →
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.
Direct application — no invite list, no banking relationship required.
RBL Bank / TVS Credit 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 / TVS Credit 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.
Fee ₹500 both years, no spend waiver. THE THING TO KNOW BEFORE PACKING: this card has NO airport lounge at all. What it has is 1 complimentary IRCTC executive RAILWAY lounge visit a calendar quarter — present the card and a valid train ticket, ₹2 is authorised at the door, and the visit buys 2 hours plus one buffet meal. Primary cardmember only. Earn splits by channel rather than category: 1 Reward Point per ₹100 offline/POS, 2 per ₹100 online, with online capped at 1,000 points a billing cycle. The standard RBL exclusion list applies to both rates and to every spend threshold on the card (Fuel & Auto, Utilities, Insurance, Quasi-Cash, Railways, Real Estate/Rental, Education, Wallet/Service Providers, Government Services, Contracted Services, Cash, Miscellaneous, Bills2Pay, EMI) — note that RAILWAYS is on that list, so the card that pays you in railway lounges pays you nothing for buying the ticket. One milestone: 2,000 points at ₹1.5 lakh of eligible annual spend. BookMyShow gives a buy-one-get-one up to ₹200 once a month, on ₹10,000 of eligible spend that month. Fuel surcharge waiver 1% on ₹500–₹4,000 fills, capped ₹100 a month. No income or age criteria published.
per the official RBL Bank / TVS Credit MITC · reviewed 10 Jul 2026
What's changed for this card
6 dated changes
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 2026Axis EDGE brings Accor back, drops ITC, and adds Cathay, Miles & More and HiltonAccor 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 2026RBL relaunches the Shoppers Stop co-brand as a Gold / Platinum / Black trio
- 21 Aug 2026Club ITC pays up to 50,000 bonus Green Points for spreading 10 nights across all five brands
- 7 Jan 2026RBL bolts a 1% fee onto FASTag loads and tolls — the fifth 1% line on its charge sheet
- 1 Jul 2025RBL gates domestic lounges behind ₹35k a quarter
- 15 Oct 2024RBL strips points from education, government and wallet spends
Verified against RBL Bank / TVS Credit's own documents on · the net-annual-value engine, at our house ₹/point
Every document behind this page — 6 of them, each with the day we read it
- official Product page — ₹500 annual fee, the ungated railway-lounge quota, and the 1/2 offline/online Reward Point split
- official Product T&C — §3.2 the 1/2 offline/online Reward Point split, §3.4 the ₹1.5 lakh milestone, §3.5 the ungated Executive Railway Lounge clause
- official TVS-card FAQ — confirms ₹500 membership/renewal fee, "Value of 1 Reward Point shall be upto INR 0.25", and links both TVS cards' individual T&C PDFs
- official RBL's Executive Railway Lounge programme terms — 2-hour stay, 1 buffet meal, tea/coffee, changing room, newspaper/magazine
- official Schedule of Charges — "RBL Bank TVS Credit Card: INR 500 (1st Year) / INR 500 (2nd Year onwards)"
- official Bank-wide MITC — up to 3.5% forex markup (the 0% carve-out names only the Safari family and Lumière)