Re-checked on 3 October 2026 against each brand's own pages. Beutea is still the best first visit in Singapore, a sign-up pack of two vouchers (50% off and a Buy-1-Free-1), and its homepage now runs Buy 3 Get 1 Free every Wednesday; its 30% off on Grab ended on 30 September. CHAGEE gives CHA Explorer members 15% off every Wednesday and sells its teabags at FairPrice at S$12 for eight. R&B Tea still prints the maths (a free drink every 6 stamps, 1 stamp per S$4.50), HEYTEA and CHICHA San Chen have nothing dated running, and Mixue is still the cheapest cup at S$1.50.
Same drinks, same malls, and the 1-for-1 that every bubble tea roundup still leads with was pulled years ago.
> Quick view: the best first cup is Beutea's sign-up pack, a 50% off voucher plus a Buy-1-Free-1. CHAGEE now hands Explorer members 15% off every Wednesday, not three named ones. Cheapest cup on the island: Mixue at S$1.50. And CHICHA San Chen publishes no 1-for-1 at all.
Beutea is the newest name here and the most generous at the counter.WELCOME PACK: its BEUTEA Club rewards card, published on the brand's own Singapore site, gives every new sign-up two vouchers, one 50% off and one Buy-1-Free-1, both credited to the app when you register.EVERY WEDNESDAY: Beutea's own homepage banner now runs Buy 3, Get 1 Free every Wednesday, in store and in the app, and the free drink is the lowest priced of the four. Unlike CHAGEE's Wednesday 15%, it needs no tier, so it works from your first visit.POINTS AND TIERS: after that you earn 1 point per S$1 spent, with 100 points worth S$2 off and 200 points worth S$5 off, and you climb from Tea Greenie to Tea Pro at 10 cups, Tea Master at 30 and Tea Elite at 50. The earn rate steps 1x, 1.5x, 2x, 3x per dollar, Tea Master adds 300 points for S$8 off and Tea Elite adds 400 points for S$12 off. At Tea Elite the birthday reward grows from one 50% voucher to two 50% vouchers plus two Buy-1-Free-1s.FINE PRINT: an order paid with a discount voucher does not count toward your next tier, so spend the welcome vouchers on cups you were buying anyway instead of racing for Tea Pro. The 30% off its five most-ordered drinks on Grab ran from 17 to 30 September 2026 and has ended, with nothing announced to replace it. Year-round, Beutea also takes 10% off any drink when you bring your own tumbler, running since 21 May 2026 with no announced end date.OUTLETS: eleven on Beutea's own store list: Aperia Mall, Bugis Junction, City Square Mall, iMall Marine Parade, Junction 8, Mapletree Business City, Northpoint City, One Raffles Place, Sembawang MRT, Tampines MRT and Tiong Bahru Plaza.BEST FOR: anyone who has not tried Beutea, and groups of four on a Wednesday. Go with friends so the free cups actually get drunk.
New-member welcome pack in the BEUTEA app: one 50% off voucher and one Buy-1-Free-1 voucher, then 1 point per S$1 (100 points = S$2 off); Buy 3 Get 1 Free every Wednesday, in store and in the app (free cup is the lowest priced of the four); 10% off year-round when you bring your own tumbler
CHAGEE rebuilt its membership on 29 July 2026, and the part every other guide gets wrong is the best part. The launch ran a 20% off Members' Day on three named Wednesdays (29 July, 5 and 12 August 2026), which is where the 'check the app for the next date' advice comes from. CHAGEE's own help centre, updated on 16 September 2026, and the rewards Terms and Conditions now say something simpler: CHA Explorer members and above receive one 15% off voucher EVERY Wednesday, with the 20% treated as a limited-time upgrade on top. Getting there takes 10 cups. Before that, registering gets you one 30% off voucher (selected drinks, and the campaign page words it as one Large cup), then a New User Stamp Collection card that CHAGEE's terms name but do not itemise: the campaign page runs a second 30% voucher after your 3rd cup, a surprise gift at 5 and a full Buy-1-Free-1 drink voucher at 8, so treat those three as campaign values rather than terms you can hold CHAGEE to. The part almost nobody prints is what each tier itself pays out. CHAGEE's rewards Terms and Conditions, the version in force since 15 July 2026, give a one-off level-up voucher every time you move up: 30% off at CHA Seeker, 50% off at CHA Explorer, 80% off at CHA Pioneer and 100% off, meaning a free drink, at CHA Master. Each is issued once per member per tier and is lost if unused. Explorer also unlocks a monthly 8% off second cup voucher (10% at CHA Pioneer, 40 cups; 12% at CHA Master, 80 cups), a complimentary birthday drink and a 50% off cake voucher (75% at Pioneer, free cake at Master). Two birthday perks almost nobody lists sit alongside those: a merchandise voucher at 15%, 30% or 50% off by tier, and a Tea Leaves multiplier voucher worth 2x, 3x or 4x. One line is new in the 18 September 2026 version of the terms: the exclusive CHA Master merchandise is redeemable only from 1 November 2026, and only for members who tiered up on or after 18 September 2026. Watch two rules: complimentary or fully discounted drinks earn no cups, and Tea Leaves are calculated on what you actually pay after the discount. On merchandise, July's Bes-Tea Brew Crew plushie bundle has been overtaken. Since 4 September 2026 CHAGEE has run The Little Prince x Matcha Series bundles: two matcha drinks with a Crown Headband from S$12.40, two with a Stardust Luggage Tag from S$14.40, or one with a Green Wonder Tumbler from S$28.20, with the drinks chosen from the Signature Matcha Latte range. Alongside it, Pet Adventure Camp runs to 30 October 2026, a Paws Tumbler Bundle at S$36.90 for a large drink plus a Tabby or Highland Terrier tumbler, and a S$19.90 Paws toiletry bag sold only at the Orchard Mandarin Gallery pop-up. Read all of those as merchandise bundles rather than discounts. The matcha bundles are not sold at Bukit Panjang Plaza, Hougang Mall, Jem or that pop-up, and prices differ at RWS WEAVE, Changi Airport T2 and Pagoda House. CHAGEE runs no promotions page of its own, so those bundle prices come from the campaign listings rather than from CHAGEE. There is also now a way to drink CHAGEE tea without paying a cup price. Since 17 September 2026 FairPrice has stocked CHAGEE teabags, which we read off FairPrice's own store listing at S$12 for eight individually packed 3g bags across five blends: Boya Juexian Jasmine, Huatian Peach Oolong, Guifu Lanxiang Osmanthus Oolong, Xingshi Chunshan Longjing Green and Wanli Mulan Ceylon Black. That is S$1.50 a teabag, so a milk tea made at home lands near S$1.90 once you add milk and sugar, against roughly S$6 for the same tea over the counter. Stock varies by FairPrice outlet.BEST FOR: anyone who drinks CHAGEE more than once a month. A 15% voucher every single Wednesday compounds faster than any one-off sign-up gift here.
15% off voucher every Wednesday for CHA Explorer members and above (10 cups); published level-up vouchers of 30% / 50% / 80% / 100% off at Seeker, Explorer, Pioneer and Master; The Little Prince matcha bundles from S$12.40 and the Pet Adventure Camp Paws Tumbler Bundle at S$36.90, both running from 4 Sep 2026; CHAGEE teabags at FairPrice, S$12 for 8 x 3g, from 17 Sep 2026
R&B Tea's membership page does the thing almost no chain does: it publishes the exchange rate. One stamp is S$4.50 spent, six stamps gets a free drink of your choice, and that is the only reward in this guide that needs no code, no nominated day and no app beyond joining. On R&B's own prices that works out to roughly S$27 of tea for a free cup, or about 17% back if you drink the cheaper end of the menu. The chain's Large Fresh Milk Teas start at S$4.90, still the lowest large-cup price of any mainstream milk-tea chain here, and the Bam Bam brown-sugar drinks are what most people come for. One thing we have removed: the S$7.90 TeaLuxe Tumbler (usual price S$12.90) and free Fur Pal keychain that ran from 25 May 2026 is no longer on R&B's homepage banner, its Latest Happenings page or its membership page, so treat it as finished unless a specific store still has stock.BEST FOR: everyday drinkers who want value without hunting for codes, and anyone who would rather earn a free cup than chase a percentage.
Members' reward: a free drink of your choice every 6 stamps, 1 stamp per S$4.50 spent; Large Fresh Milk Teas from S$4.90
PlayMade is the pearl specialist, known for hand-made toppings like its brown-sugar pearls, aloe vera and the golden boba it built a following on. The everyday hack: order self-pickup in the PlayMade app between 3pm and 5pm and enter code TEATIME for 10% off. It has run since June 2026 with no announced end date. Two catches, and a third worth knowing. It is self-pickup only; PlayMade lists it at selected outlets (Westgate and Jurong Point), so check eligibility in-app rather than assuming your usual store counts; and the code is published in the app rather than on playmade.com, which carries no promotions page at all. PlayMade's own TEATIME campaign artwork does spell the terms out: valid for self pick-up orders at PlayMade Westgate and Jurong Point only, orders placed between 3PM and 5PM only, enter TEATIME at checkout. Treat it as live but confirm at checkout, because an in-app code can be pulled without notice. There is a second PlayMade code that PlayMade does not publish either, but SAFRA does, on its own merchant page: PMSAFRA5 gives SAFRA members and Servicemen (11B) 5% off food and drinks through the PlayMade app. It is half the discount, but it works all day, at any outlet, and on delivery as well as self-pickup, where TEATIME is 3pm to 5pm, self-pickup and Westgate or Jurong Point only. SAFRA's terms say it cannot be combined with other promotions, so the two do not stack: use TEATIME if you can make the window and the outlet, PMSAFRA5 the rest of the time. PlayMade's 1-for-1 Taiwan milk tea taste test ran 29 August to 5 September 2026 and has ended.BEST FOR: regulars near a participating outlet who can time an order for the afternoon window, and SAFRA members ordering anywhere else.
10% off app self-pickup daily 3-5pm at selected outlets (Westgate, Jurong Point), ongoing since June 2026 with no announced end date; SAFRA members and 11B get 5% off all day at any outlet with code PMSAFRA5, not stackable
Code: TEATIME
KOI The is the original for a lot of Singaporeans: consistent milk tea, chewy golden pearls and the macchiato foam top. Its fruit-forward Ume (plum) series carries an app deal, code KOIUME29 in the KOI The SG app for 10% off any Ume drink, toppings excluded, while redemptions last. It has run since 17 April 2026. The same caveat as PlayMade applies and it matters more here because the code is now five months old: KOI publishes it in the app, not on koithe.com, whose news page carries corporate posts only, the most recent from June 2026, and no promotions of any kind, so we could not re-confirm it from KOI's own website in September either. The app also runs a Leaf loyalty system, 1 Leaf per S$1 spent, redeemable for toppings and drinks, so the discount stacks with points on your account. Around 50 outlets, the widest network in this guide.BEST FOR: KOI regulars and anyone who likes a fruity, less sweet cup. Enter the code at checkout and if it has lapsed you will know before you pay.
10% off any Ume (plum) drink via the KOI The SG app, toppings excluded, while redemptions last (running since 17 April 2026)
Code: KOIUME29
HEYTEA's run of opening promotions has ended, and nothing has been announced to replace it. The PLQ Mall store at 10 Paya Lebar Road, #01-16, closed its final phase on 13 September 2026, and the reopened ION Orchard store at Basement 4, #B4-29, 2 Orchard Turn finished its last week on 20 September 2026, the free oil wax tote bag with any in-store drink, 100 a day. Both stores now trade at standard pricing. HEYTEA publishes no Singapore promotions page, and its 1-for-1s are outlet-opening events rather than a schedule, so the next one arrives with the next new or refreshed store. One trap to avoid while you wait: the widely shared HEYTEA Marina Bay Sands Buy-1-Get-1-Free, 19 to 25 September with an SG-exclusive fridge magnet, is from 2025, not this year, and it still surfaces in search every September. What is left is year-round and worth having anyway: new GO HEYTEA app members get a welcome voucher plus points toward free drinks. Menu prices at ION give you the base cost to compare against: Coconut Mango Bloom S$5.90, Supreme Brown Sugar Bobo Milk Tea S$6.50, Very Grape Cheezeo S$9.50. The Tampines 1 store trades on at 10 Tampines Central 1, #01-16, 10am to 10pm daily.BEST FOR: anyone who wants the tea rather than a deal, and anyone willing to join the app and wait for the next store opening.
No dated promotion running: the ION Orchard opening week (free oil wax tote bag) closed on 20 Sep 2026 and HEYTEA has announced nothing to follow it. Year-round: a GO HEYTEA app welcome voucher plus points toward free drinks
Mixue does not really run promos because it does not need to. Its whole model is permanently low prices, though one number has moved and most guides never updated it: the Signature King Cone that Mixue launched in Singapore at S$1 rose to S$1.50 on 25 November 2024, which the chain put down to raw-material costs, and it has held there since. At S$1.50 it is still the cheapest cone from any chain here, and most drinks (lemonades, milk teas, fruit teas) stay under S$3.50 with no membership, no code and no app. That makes Mixue the answer to 'cheapest bubble tea in Singapore' on standing prices, though a first-visit voucher at Beutea will beat it for one order. Quality is simple and cheerful rather than premium, and the Snow King mascot cups are a hit with kids. Outlets keep spreading across heartland malls and MRT stations.BEST FOR: families, students and anyone who wants a cheap cold drink or cone on a hot day without thinking about deals at all.
Singapore's lowest standing prices: Signature King Cone S$1.50 (raised from S$1 on 25 Nov 2024), most drinks under S$3.50, no membership needed
CHICHA San Chen is still the best cup in this guide: hand-shaken teas brewed on its own patented equipment, with cleaner, more tea-forward flavours (the Oolong and the God's Tea Latte have a cult following) at around S$5 to S$7 a cup. What it no longer has is anything you can claim on day one. We checked three of CHICHA's own surfaces on 27 August 2026, the sign-up page on its rewards portal, the membership Terms and Conditions issued by Yu Kee Two Pte Ltd behind it, and the Rewards block on chichasanchen.com.sg. All three describe a points programme only: 1 point per S$1 spent, points valid for 12 months, redeemable against later transactions. None mentions a welcome 1-for-1 or a stamp card, and CHICHA publishes no public promo code the way PlayMade and KOI do. The sign-up 1-for-1 that fills search results, and that earlier versions of this guide ranked first, traces to a local blog post from July 2021 that has been copied forward ever since. Its real pattern is a couple of short, steep second-cup promotions a year on its own Instagram: 60% off the second drink for SG60 on 8 and 9 August 2025, 70% off the second drink for its 7th anniversary from 18 to 22 May 2026 at every outlet except Jewel Changi Airport. Nothing ran for SG61. The pattern is alive and it now runs through the app as well: a members-only 10% off the Black Ruby Creation ran from 8 to 22 September 2026 at participating stores, again with Jewel Changi Airport left out, claimed by logging in to use the voucher rather than by typing a code. So the move is to join the rewards programme and watch the app and the Instagram, not to hunt for a discount code that does not exist. Thirty-two outlets on its own store list, and note there is no ION Orchard shop: the closest Orchard-area stores are 313@Somerset, Plaza Singapura and Wheelock Place.BEST FOR: tea drinkers who will pay full price for the best cup, and anyone who wants to watch its Instagram for the next anniversary promotion.
No sign-up 1-for-1 and no public promo code: members earn 1 point per S$1 spent, valid 12 months, redeemable on later orders; short members-only voucher runs appear in the app instead, most recently 10% off Black Ruby Creation, 8-22 Sep 2026
| Brand | Best deal right now | How to claim |
|---|---|---|
| Beutea | Welcome pack of TWO vouchers: 50% off and Buy-1-Free-1; plus Buy 3 Get 1 Free every Wednesday | Sign up in the BEUTEA app; Wednesday deal in store or in the app |
| CHAGEE | 15% off every Wednesday (CHA Explorer, 10 cups); level-up vouchers 30% / 50% / 80% / 100% off; teabags S$12 for 8 at FairPrice | CHAGEE app, or any FairPrice |
| R&B Tea | Free drink every 6 stamps, 1 stamp per S$4.50 spent | Join the membership, walk in |
| PlayMade | 10% off app self-pickup, daily 3-5pm; or 5% off all day for SAFRA and 11B | App code TEATIME, or PMSAFRA5 |
| KOI The | 10% off Ume (plum) drinks | App code KOIUME29 |
| HEYTEA | Nothing dated running: the ION Orchard opening week closed 20 Sep. App welcome voucher only | GO HEYTEA app |
| Mixue | Cheapest standing prices: King Cone S$1.50, most drinks under S$3.50 | Walk in, no membership |
| CHICHA San Chen | No 1-for-1 and no promo code: points only. Short members-only vouchers appear in the app instead | Rewards sign-up, then watch the app |
There is no single answer, because "cheapest" means different things depending on whether you are buying one cup or two hundred.
A voucher here means something you hold in an account before you order, not a code you type. Four chains issue them and each issues a different kind.
Two rules cut across all of them. A voucher-paid order does not count toward your next Beutea tier, and a complimentary or fully discounted CHAGEE drink earns neither cups nor Tea Leaves. So the vouchers are worth most on drinks you were buying anyway, and worth least when you use them to chase a tier.
Yes, and none of them is the one most roundups point at.
If what you want is milk tea specifically rather than fruit tea or ice cream, the value sits in different places.
They pay out on different timelines, so claim them in the right order.
Beutea pays immediately. Two vouchers land when you register, and the Buy-1-Free-1 alone is worth a full cup. Nothing has to be accumulated first. The limit is that it is once per account, and the vouchers themselves do not count toward your next tier.
CHAGEE pays if you come back. Registration gets you one 30% off voucher, which on a S$6 cup is under S$2. The real rewards are further up: another 30% voucher at 3 cups, a gift at 5, a Buy-1-Free-1 at 8, and at 10 cups a 50% off level-up voucher plus the weekly 15% Members' Day voucher, a monthly 8% off second cup, a birthday drink and a 50% off cake voucher. Further still, 40 cups pays an 80% off voucher and 80 cups a free drink.
So: claim Beutea's pack first because it costs nothing to hold, then start building the CHAGEE ladder with the cups you were going to buy anyway. Complimentary and fully discounted drinks earn no CHAGEE cups, so a free cup does not move you up a tier.
App codes like TEATIME and KOIUME29 run "while redemptions last" and can be pulled without notice. Neither brand publishes them on its website: PlayMade's site has no promotions page at all, and KOI's news page carries corporate posts only, the most recent from June 2026, with no promotions of any kind, so we could not re-confirm either from an official page in September and we have flagged that in both entries rather than quietly asserting they still work. PlayMade's own TEATIME campaign artwork does at least print the terms in full: self pick-up at Westgate and Jurong Point only, 3PM to 5PM only. Standing menu prices move too: Mixue's Signature King Cone went from S$1 to S$1.50 in November 2024 and a lot of "cheapest bubble tea" listings have never caught up. Always confirm the live deal in the brand's official app before you order, and check outlet eligibility, because PlayMade's TEATIME is limited to Westgate and Jurong Point and CHAGEE's plushie bundle is excluded from Grab pickup and delivery.
*Every deal, code and price above was re-checked on 20 September 2026 (Beutea's homepage, R&B Tea's membership page and every brand link again on 3 October 2026) against each brand's own rewards page, help centre, membership terms, merchant page or store directory, and we say so in each entry when a claim could only be verified in-app. Beutea's welcome pack, tier ladder and birthday rewards are read off the BEUTEA Club card published on beutea.world/sg, and the five most-ordered drinks and the Wednesday Buy 3 Get 1 Free are read off Beutea's own homepage banners. The CHAGEE teabag price and pack size are read off FairPrice's own product listing. CHAGEE's Members' Day help article was last updated on 16 September 2026 and the CHAGEE Rewards Programme terms on 18 September 2026. Mixue's King Cone price change is per Mothership, The Online Citizen, AsiaOne and MustShareNews (November 2024). HEYTEA's PLQ and ION Orchard opening schedules, both now finished, are from the brand's own opening announcements as reported by Eatbook, SGDtips and EverydayOnSales, because HEYTEA publishes no Singapore promotions page. Beutea's Grab run and CHICHA San Chen's Black Ruby member voucher are likewise from deal-tracker listings rather than a brand page we can link you to, because neither brand publishes a promotions page. CHAGEE's September merchandise bundles and their excluded outlets are quoted from the campaign listings, again because CHAGEE publishes no promotions page of its own. CHAGEE's tier gates, level-up vouchers, Members' Day, monthly perks and Tea Leaves rules are quoted from the CHAGEE Rewards Programme terms in force since 15 July 2026. PlayMade's PMSAFRA5 is quoted from SAFRA's own PlayMade merchant page. Terms are set by the brands and can change without notice.*
For a first visit, Beutea. Its own BEUTEA Club rewards card gives new members a welcome pack of two vouchers rather than one: a 50% off voucher and a Buy-1-Free-1, credited when you register in the BEUTEA app, with 11 Singapore outlets from Tiong Bahru Plaza to Sembawang MRT, and on Wednesdays its homepage adds Buy 3 Get 1 Free. If you drink from the same chain often, CHAGEE beats it over time, and its best perk is no longer date-locked: CHAGEE's help centre and rewards terms now give CHA Explorer members (10 cups) and above a 15% off voucher every Wednesday, on top of a sign-up ladder that runs 30% off, a second 30% voucher at 3 cups, a gift at 5 and a full Buy-1-Free-1 voucher at 8. For no-app value, R&B Tea gives a free drink of your choice every 6 stamps, and a stamp is S$4.50 spent. One correction worth knowing: CHICHA San Chen's sign-up 1-for-1, which most guides still list as the best deal in the category, is not published anywhere by CHICHA today.
No to all three, as far as CHICHA San Chen itself publishes. We checked three of its own surfaces on 27 August 2026: the rewards portal's sign-up page, the membership Terms and Conditions behind it (issued by Yu Kee Two Pte Ltd, which operates CHICHA in Singapore) and the Rewards block on chichasanchen.com.sg. All three describe a points programme, earning 1 point per S$1 spent with points valid for 12 months and redeemable against later transactions. None of them mentions a 1-for-1 welcome drink or a stamp card. The 1-for-1 claim that fills search results traces to a local blog post from July 2021, and it has been copied forward ever since. There is also no public CHICHA promo code, unlike PlayMade's TEATIME or KOI's KOIUME29, so treat any 'CHICHA discount code' on a coupon aggregator as invented. On National Day: nothing ran for SG61 in 2026. The 60% off your second drink people remember was SG60, on 8 and 9 August 2025, and the 70% off second drink was the 7th-anniversary promotion from 18 to 22 May 2026 at every outlet except Jewel Changi Airport. CHICHA's pattern is a couple of short, steep second-cup promotions a year announced on its own Instagram with little notice, plus short members-only vouchers in the app: the most recent was 10% off the Black Ruby Creation from 8 to 22 September 2026 at participating stores, Jewel Changi Airport again excluded, claimed by logging in rather than by typing a code. So there is sometimes a discount, just never one waiting for you on the day you sign up.
Two codes are worth saving, and both are entered inside the brand's own app rather than at the counter: TEATIME gives 10% off PlayMade self-pickup orders placed between 3pm and 5pm daily at selected outlets (Westgate and Jurong Point), and KOIUME29 gives 10% off any Ume (plum) drink in the KOI The SG app, toppings excluded, while redemptions last. Both have run since mid-2026, both are published in-app rather than on the brands' websites, so check they are still live at checkout before you count on them. Everything else in this guide is claimed by account, not by code: Beutea's 50% off and Buy-1-Free-1 land in the app when you register, CHAGEE's Wednesday 15%, sign-up 30% and 8-cup Buy-1-Free-1 all sit in the CHAGEE app, and R&B's stamps are tied to your membership. Only R&B's shelf prices and Mixue need nothing at all. CHICHA San Chen publishes no code of any kind.
Mixue, on standing prices, but not at the price it is famous for. The Signature King Cone that made Mixue's name at S$1 was raised to S$1.50 on 25 November 2024 and has stayed there, so any listing still quoting S$1 is out of date. Most Mixue drinks (milk teas, fruit teas, lemonades) stay under S$3.50, with no membership and no code. Among the 'proper' milk-tea chains, R&B Tea is next cheapest with Large Fresh Milk Teas from S$4.90, and its 6-stamp free drink effectively takes about S$4.50 off every S$27 you spend. On effective price after a deal, though, a first-visit voucher beats both for one order: Beutea's welcome Buy-1-Free-1 halves two cups, and its 50% off voucher takes another cup down by half, which on a roughly S$6 drink is the cheapest good cup you will buy all year. The catch is that it is once per account. Cheapest habit: Mixue. Cheapest single good cup: a sign-up voucher.
On tea, CHICHA San Chen. On what you pay, CHAGEE, and it is not close in 2026. CHICHA brews on its own patented equipment and its Oolong and God's Tea Latte are the most tea-forward cups in this guide, but its rewards portal, its membership terms and its own website all describe a points programme only: 1 point per S$1 spent, valid 12 months, redeemable on later orders. There is no sign-up 1-for-1 and no public promo code, whatever the roundups say. CHAGEE publishes the fullest rewards scheme of any bubble tea chain here. Its terms, in force since 15 July 2026, gate tiers at 10, 40 and 80 cups earned in a rolling 365 days, and pay a level-up voucher at each one: 30% off at CHA Seeker, 50% at CHA Explorer, 80% at CHA Pioneer and a free drink at CHA Master. From CHA Explorer you also get a 15% off voucher every Wednesday, a monthly 8% off second cup, and on your birthday a free drink plus a 50% off cake voucher. So: go to CHICHA for the cup, go to CHAGEE for the bill. If you only drink bubble tea a few times a year, neither scheme will pay you much and Beutea's two sign-up vouchers are worth more than both.
No chain in this guide publishes a student discount, and we checked each brand's own site on 6 September 2026. What does exist is a membership discount, and one organisation discount. The membership route is the real one: CHAGEE, Beutea, R&B Tea and HEYTEA all give more to a registered account than to a walk-in, and joining is free in every case. The cheapest way in is Beutea, whose two sign-up vouchers arrive before you have spent anything. The organisation discount is PlayMade's PMSAFRA5, published on SAFRA's own merchant page: SAFRA members and Servicemen (11B) get 5% off food and drinks in the PlayMade app, on self-pickup or delivery, at any outlet. SAFRA's terms say it cannot be combined with other promotions, so you cannot stack it with PlayMade's TEATIME 10%. If you are a student and want the lowest price rather than a discount, the answer is Mixue, where most drinks are under S$3.50 with no card, no app and no membership.
The 1-for-1 days are over at both stores, but the freebies are not. HEYTEA's newest Singapore store is at PLQ Mall, 10 Paya Lebar Road, #01-16 on Level 1, which the mall's own directory confirms. Its Buy-1-Get-1-Free days ran 21 to 23 August 2026, the guaranteed-win lucky draw closed on 30 August, the canvas bag for the first 200 customers closed on 6 September, and the last phase is running now: buy two drinks at the counter between 7 and 13 September 2026 for one ice-cream voucher, capped at 1,000. That is in-store counter orders only, one per transaction, and it ends on 13 September. The ION Orchard outlet is the one to plan around after that. It reopened at Basement 4, #B4-29, 2 Orchard Turn on 28 August 2026 with its own 1-for-1 on 28 to 30 August, a sticker sheet giveaway before it and a fridge magnet with every drink during it, then a canvas bag for the first 200 customers from 7 to 13 September, and from 14 to 20 September 2026 a free oil wax tote bag with any in-store drink purchase, limited to 100 bags a day while stocks last. The earlier Tampines 1 opening promotion (Buy-1-Get-1-Free 6 to 8 July, second cup at 50% off 9 to 12 July 2026) has ended and that store trades on at 10 Tampines Central 1, #01-16, 10am to 10pm. Outside the openings, HEYTEA's standing saving is the GO HEYTEA app welcome voucher plus points on every order.
