@Sajid @Srinivas Reddy @Parveshgarg
I opened this 10k account in October and received the offer by mid February. I opened this account as there were gift card offers as welcome benefits.
I'm not 100% sure if you're going to get the offer by following what I've done but definitely worth giving a shot.
I can only share what I've followed according to my personal logic, totally upto you whether to try or not.
1. Maintain AMB at any cost whether it is 10k or 25k. Not to fall short on it, no matter what.
2. Make this your primary account. Do all of your transactions from this account only. I even ignored all the offers on my other bank cards and used this account only.
3. Use your debit card as much as possible. If you have Kotak 811 account add money in it with your IDFC debit card just to make debit card transactions. Make sure the payment page is with merchant name as PAYU and not KOTAK MAHINDRA BANK. (Logic behind it is - whenever I used my SBI debit card I earned rewards for the PAYU transactions only.)
4. If Possible - Link your Zerodha account with IDFC. (IDFC 3 in 1 Account) All you need to do is send a POA to Zerodha Bangalore address.
(I used to have small amount of investments, but mostly I just used this to add money from this account to Zerodha trading account and then withdrawing back into IDFC account.)
5. Salary Credit- Do NEFT transfers every month on a same date (Try for 1st) with fixed amount (At least 40k). You can ask any of your friends to do this transfer from his account.
Fun fact: The NEFT transactions my friend made to my account were of 40k and my pre-approved card limit was the same, so maybe a key-point.
6. There's a in-app my finance section. So Keep updating your transactions with suitable categories remark. Like for the Salary credit transactions, Zerodha transactions as investments etc.
Apart from this, I was maintaining my CIBIL > 770. I don't know whether this plays any kinda role here as I've seen a lot of people getting pre-approved offers without having any credit history.
Though, Flipkart Pay Later & Ola Money Postpaid+ might definitely help as it is IDFC powered. You'll surely going to get approved for both if you're having descent CIBIL score.
I guess ignoring other offers and transacting through this account only finally paid off cause I've earned more than 3000₹ worth of rewards and benefits within the first two statements only.
My card was generated within 2 mins.