orite thanks   i flagged my TNB bills for normal 6% cashback. also avoided L&L supp card promo too. 

sms alert and pin/swipe method are related? 

I don't think it's related though. Cause come Jan 1st, all cards will mandate PIN.
In fact, some merchants told me they were asked to practice PIN and Pay from customer since June this year.

add-on

I recently added supp card for my dad (existing customer with casa but no pbe)

as stated above, need to walk in branch. but registered my mobile number (dad don't use mobile phone)

register pbe via atm. keep failing, error code 107.

then only found out 1 unique mobile number per pbe account. wtf

went back again to change mobile number. this time didnt go atm for temp id/password. staff issued me temp envelope on the spot.

5) you can put your own mobile number (principal's) for supp card. this is important if you're the only one managing all supp cards' online spending (hint: TAC) or SMS alert.

6) you can put your own email address (principal's) for supp card. this is important to receive eStatement (introduced last month, particularly useful for you to receive supp card's statement if you cant access their PBe account).

7) for 5 & 6 above, each supp card holds its own contact details (mobile number & email address), irrespective to the supp individual's PBe details (their own mobile number or email address). you can't see these in their PBe, only from calling CS to find out, which leads me to below

8) you can set independent mobile number, email address, credit limit (CL) and SMS notification threshold (default RM500) for each supp card. now here's the tricky part that happened to me: application form doesnt allow you to put RM1 sms notification threshold. I purposely put a big remark there, [RM1.00].  This is a hit-or-miss problem. for my principal card, the staff recorded it immediately. for both my supp cards, the staff didnt bother at all. need to call CS back to change the SMS threshold to RM1. no questions asked and straightforward. while you're on-call with CS, verify back the supp card's recorded mobile number/email address/SMS threshold. do this to each supp card. less headache later.

When did your card get approved, and when did your supp make the qualifying spend? If you provide us the dates we can compare with ours. Yours may be later batch.

Yes - Correct. PBB generally doesn't generate partial statements (i.e. less than 1 month).

This is quite annoying, because it means that you may lose out on cashback in the first month. However, I recall that some forummers wrote in to appeal and managed to get cashback (I think).

For me, my 2 new supp cards are still waiting for their first statement (in December), even though they got their cards in October.

Yes, in your case you will get cashback because you have 2 statement cycles. The problem that most "first statement" people have is this:

For example - Received card on 10 October, but no statement generated on 1 November. First statement generated on 1 December. The cashback for 10 October to 1 December is only RM50. If a statement had been generated on 1 November and 1 December, then you would get RM50 x 2.

From experience, I know that there are various situations. When I called PBB CS, their standard answer is that no statement is generated for periods less than a month. However, 2 of my supplementary cards got their first statement covering less than a month (like you). Perhaps they have a certain cut off date (e.g. no statement if less than 2 weeks?) - I'm not sure?

Thats troublesome, so i need to bring my mother to pb branch to open a pbe account, using her own hp number, request the temporary pin same time.
bro sorry, u mention we call fill in a form so that the cs can add supplementary acc under our PBe? is it?
do i need to bring along my mother?

I was the principle, i supp to my wife, card came to my house, i took card + my ic without wife to OUG branch, it's done in the branch in the morning, by evening, I can see the supp card in my pbe.
cybpsych, on the other hand, had his supp card registered with his supp pbe account, but he tried to move the supp card to his own pbe and failed.

Just Excel (Inc summary page of amounts due, statement dates, due dates, with individual sheets for each card). But I've got 26 cards to manage and was careless this round, as I've got serious pregnancy brain (baby due next month) and a little slower than usual. Cancelled quite a few cards in the past few weeks to tidy up finances before baby is born. Then I'll start reapplying and managing things better during maternity leave .