Best credit card to use at Brinks Home.
Brinks Home sells professionally monitored home-security systems: panels, sensors, and cameras installed DIY or professionally, paired with a monthly monitoring plan under one of the oldest names in the security business. Equipment purchases and monitoring bills come through brinkshome.com and code as security services rather than a utility.
Picks without a tag earn at Brinks Home both in-store and online. Watch for theOnline onlytag — those bonuses only apply on brinkshome.com.
- #13.5%5x points
- #2Blue Cash EverydayOnline onlyAmerican Express3% on online shopping (up to $6,000/year, then 1%)U.S. online retail purchases3%
- #33%
- #4Bank of America3% on online shopping if you select it as a bonus category (up to $2,500/quarter, then 1%)3% in choice category (gas, online shopping, dining, travel, drugstores, home improvement); cap is combined with groceries/wholesale-club row3%
- #5Bank of America3% on online shopping if you select it as a bonus category (up to $2,500/quarter, then 1%)3% in choice category (gas, online shopping, dining, travel, drugstores, home improvement); cap is combined with groceries/wholesale-club row3%
- #6American Express2x points on home improvement (up to $2,000,000/year, then 1%)U.S. construction material and hardware suppliers; up to $2 million per calendar year across all 2x purchases, then 1x2.4%2x points
- #72.1%3x points
- #8Hilton Honors American Express SurpassOnline onlyAmerican Express4x points on online shoppingEligible U.S. online retail purchases2.0%4x points
- #92%
- #102%
- #112%
- #12First Electronic Bank2% flat-rate cashbackTiers of 2%, 2.5%, 3%, or 4% based on assets held on Coinbase; tiers above 2% are capped at $10,000 in eligible purchases per month, then 2%. Requires Coinbase One membership.2%
- #13Elan Financial Services2% flat-rate cashbackWhen deposited into an eligible Fidelity account2%
- #14American Express2% flat-rate cashbackUnlimited 2% cash back on eligible purchases2%
- #152%
- #162%
- #17Navy Federal2% flat-rate cashbackIssued on the cashRewards application when approved for a credit limit of $5,000 or more; lower limits receive cashRewards at 1.5%2%
- #18PenFed Credit Union2% flat-rate cashback2% with PenFed Honors Advantage (current or former military, or a PenFed Access America checking account); 1.5% otherwise2%
- #192%
- #202%
Neither equipment nor monitoring reliably lands in a bonus category, so the practical play is a flat 2 percent card on the monthly plan, or putting the upfront equipment package on a card you are working toward a signup bonus on; security bundles are an easy few hundred dollars of qualifying spend.
Last updated October 23, 2026