CardBuddy
PayPal sandbox

A year of agent purchases, with and without CardBuddy

The same shopping agent, the same cards and the same purchases. One pays with the default card every time; the other uses CardBuddy.

More rewards with CardBuddy–
Without CardBuddy–
With CardBuddy–
Agent mistakes that got paid–

Rewards by category

Where the extra comes from. Where the bars match, the default card was already the best.

CategorySpendCardBuddy pays withRewardsDefaultCardBuddy

Three mistakes the agent made

What happenedAmountWithout CardBuddyWith CardBuddy

How this was worked out

Reproducible with node sim/simulate.mjs. The full method is in docs/SIMULATION.md.