CashCrate Reviews and Features

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CashCrate


Contact: http://www.cashcrate.com/contact

CashCrate (the GPT program) officially shut down on April 1, 2019, however their website was converted into a directory of ways to make money online. Note that when the GPT program portion of the website was shut down, members who had not reached the minimum cashout levels were unable to redeem their balances for a final payment. Cashcrate did not offer to issue a final payment for these balances.

The website in its current state primarily exists to earn referral commissions from users. Proper privacy policies and disclosures are missing from the website. We do not recommend using the Cashcrate website.

If you'd like to leave your comments or would like to discuss CashCrate, please do so on the SurveyPolice forum.

Cashcrate was a GPT (get-paid-to) website where you could earn cash for completing offers, doing tasks, and participating in online surveys.

How CashCrate Worked

Upon becoming a member and logging into Cashcrate, you would be presented with a variety of ways to start earning:

  • Offers – complete offers and get paid to try new products and signup for free websites and services
  • Surveys – give your opinions and earn cash for participating in research surveys
  • Shopping - get cashback on the purchases you make at hundreds of different online retailers
  • Games, contests, and more – interact with fellow Cashcraters, and earn prizes and points while you socialize and play games. Also get entries to win contests!
  • Referring friends – Cashcrate offered a generous multi-tiered referral program. Earn 20% of what your referrals earn, and an additional 10% of what your referral’s referrals earn. These levels increased to 30% of your referral’s earnings and 20% of what their referrals made, if you recruited a large number of new members. Extra cash bonuses were also offered.

Payment and Rewards

As the name implied, Cashcrate awarded cash to its members. A $20 balance was required in order to request a check or a PayPal payment. Payments took around 3-4 weeks to receive. Cashcrate had a Payment Wall gallery where members could upload images of checks and PayPal payments to prove that they really have been paid.

Community Features

Cashcrate came to be in 2002 and had over 2 million members worldwide. Thousands of dollars’ worth of checks were issued monthly (you could view these in their 'Gallery' on their website).

As per the note in red above, Cashcrate discontinued their GPT program in April of 2019. The information pertaining to their GPT program and the reviews listed below are no longer current.

Cashcrate Alternatives

If you were a member of Cashcrate, or are looking for legitimate programs to earn cash and rewards, there are hundreds of websites to choose from. A good starting point is to consult our Top Rated Survey Sites (as decided by actual survey takers) and the Top Rated GPT Sites. Alternatively, here are a few program suggestions you may wish to explore. PrizeRebel is surveys-centric, offers PayPal cash, gift cards and more. Branded Surveys offers online surveys, a great referral program, and more. Tellwut is a fun community where you can take surveys, create surveys and answer daily polls for gift cards.

CashCrate Reviews (28)

5 Star Reviews (11) 39.3
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4 Star Reviews (4) 14.3
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3 Star Reviews (4) 14.3
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2 Star Reviews (3) 10.7
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1 Star Reviews (6) 21.4
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Great Site

January 7, 2018 by Frank from United States

I decided to say my final goodbye with Cashcrate. Two times I did not receive payment from them.

Update: My apologies to Cashcrate. My payment was a little late, and on top of that they sent me my missing payment from four years ago. Was not expecting that, but it's nice getting a late Christmas present :) Thank you Cashcrate.

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CashCrate responded to this review on January 4, 2018

Frank,

We tried reaching out to you about this on Facebook and asked you to submit a support request regarding this so we can communicate with you directly. We also want to verify your payment information with you, to make sure the email address you entered on your account is your correct and current PayPal email address. We checked our support database and do not see a request from you yet this week. You've been a long term member and made a lot of money with us and we want to make this right for you.

Part of the issue may be that you closed/removed your account before the last payment was issued.

Please take a moment to submit a request via the Contact Us link on our site as we cannot provide specific account details via Facebook or Survey Police. We've been paying our members for over a decade and want to make sure you get paid as well.

Thanks.


Update Jan 4: Frank, thank you for replying on Facebook today that you did receive your last PayPal payment. Payments ran a little later because of the holiday: Note: If the 1st falls on a weekend or holiday, payments may go out on the next business day. As for the 2nd missing payment (check) from 4 years ago, unfortunately we are unable to verify payments that old with out bank, but please reach out to us and we'll see what we can do.
Ultimate way to make money from Cash Crate

August 22, 2017 by Myunghwan from South Korea

Cashcrate is a really good method to earn money from home. If you put some more effort than just taking surveys, you will earn really decent amount of extra income like $500 to $1,000 monthly(or even more depending on how you do). Referral program in the site is a good example of how to make good money just at your computer desk at home. When you get a referral referred by you, you will get a instant $1 referral fee. And the one referred by you reaches its first $10, the referral will get another referral bonus $3. It's not even all. You will CONSISTENTLY 20% to 30% of all your DIRECT referrals and your INDIRECT referrals for LIFE.
Direct referral means referrals who were referred directly by you. Indirect referral means referrals referred by referrals who were referred by you. So Simply speaking, it has 2-tier multi level earning system. the more you refer the more consistent PASSIVE income automatically credited to you every month.

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CashCrate responded to this review on August 22, 2017

Thank you for the nice post and we're glad to hear you are enjoying our site. We appreciate you taking the time to leave us a review.

At CashCrate, we actually have a one level referral program ( https://www.cashcrate.com/blog/features/referral-levels-explained/ ). You start by earning a 20% referral commission, and that commission can increase as you add more referrals.

As for the bonuses, all members start with the $3 bonus: Members receive a $3.00 bonus when a referral from any country makes their first $10.00. When you reach Silver, the $1 referral bonus option becomes available: $1.00 when a referral in the USA, Canada, or the UK completes their first survey or cash offer. At the Silver Level, you can choose one bonus or the other.
Pretty good

February 10, 2019 by Marko from Serbia

Very good. Pretty satisfied with this site. The GPT Program had help me a lot

One of best! Nearly flawless.

July 18, 2018 by Tommy from United States

I joined Cashcrate back in 2013. After doing some research and learning how it all works I started making decent money on surveys. I even developed a passion to blog about sites like Cashcrate. Their staff is very friendly and always does an awesome job. They even have live out-of-pocket trivia contests on occasion where they just pay people money for answering trivia questions. They also celebrate your milestones with you. For example, a couple years back I had just earned $2,000 all time with Cashcrate. They created a blog post on their site on my behalf and they let me write about how I got there. How well you do really depends on the effort you put in to learn it and complete the actual surveys. Some people call the email submit offers surveys and anyone who has done this as long as I have know those aren't real surveys because the real surveys do pay and then there are the contests every month just for completing the most REAL surveys found on the "Surveys" and "Best Surveys" tab. In September 2015, I earned $517 and won 3rd place in the contest that month. A few months later, I referred a lady who took first place the month he joined! Not only did she come away with over $400 but I earned $100 in commission just for her performance. It's a beautiful thing to feel good about making money in your sleep because or referrals are making money as well. It's a great experience when you actually put the time in to learn it. The one thing that does make it difficult when it comes to promoting and getting referrals is that their computing system for the stats doesn't work like it used to and I know they are trying to get that fixed.The numbers are miss-categorized and it's hard to show off the payment history when I make posts because the "survey" column says I earned "zero" and that might scare off a potential referral into thinking I am not really making money doing surveys even though I am and it's categorized in a different column. That's the only thing that bugs me. An accurate stat system would make obtaining referrals a lot easier. Overall thought, I have enjoyed the experience and I have earned my elite badge, the highest honor and this month I am in the top 20 of the contest and approaching the $3,000 milestone with over $2,915 earned so that is kind of exciting! =]

Worth it !

November 21, 2015 by prag from United Kingdom

I've been a user for about a year and started off thinking I barely got $20 dollars a month but if you do the "offer" surveys too, you can make much MUCH more.

I made around $70 last month and will do again this month which is great pocket change for a struggling student.

Do give it a go and referrals always help too!