How we verify discount codes

Every code on this site goes through the same pipeline before you see it, and keeps going through it afterwards. Right now that means 56 firms tracked and 75 active codes. Codes read off a firm's site or emails carry the date they were last re-checked; our own codes, which the firms issued to us, carry the label “No end date published” (or their published end date) instead. Here is the whole process, including its limits.

Where codes come from

Official firm emails. We are subscribed to the newsletters of the firms we track. When a firm emails a promo to its own list, that is the strongest evidence a code is real — those codes get the 📧 Email-verified badge.
The firm's own website. Banners, checkout pages, and announcement bars on the firm's official domain.
Our own partner codes. Codes issued to us directly by firms we partner with. These are verified by the firm itself when issued.

What we do not use: coupon aggregators, forum rumours, or influencer codes cross-posted at ten firms at once. If a code's only source is another coupon site, it does not get listed.

The re-check cycle

We re-check the code list on a rolling cycle, oldest codes first. A code checked in the last 30 days shows that date on its card; a code with no date is one the cycle has not reached for a while:

New official firm emails are scanned for fresh promo codes.
Codes with a known expiry date are dropped at the first rebuild after they lapse; the codes page hides them on the day.
Codes that disappear from a firm's site and emails are flagged and pruned.
One firm per cycle also gets a deep audit: its pricing and rules on this site are compared line-by-line against its official pages.

The "verified" date stamped on firm pages and in the site header is generated at build time from this data — it is the real date of the last verification pass, not a marketing timestamp.

What a deep audit actually changes

That last bullet is the one that does the most work, so here are three examples of what it produced — including the times it corrected us against our own commercial interest.

Instant Funding (26 Aug 2026) — three of the five One-Phase Clarity sizes had quietly gone up: $25K $219 → $259, $50K $399 → $439, $100K $779 → $799. We had been quoting stale, too-cheap prices for eleven days. Corrected upward.
Audacity Capital (12 Aug 2026) — their 250M code was listed here at 35% off when the firm had cut it to 25%. We were overstating a discount by ten percentage points in our own favour. Corrected downward the same day.
Top One Trader (26 Aug 2026) — the Instant Prime $10K account had been repriced from $158 to $223. Every other price on that firm — 28 of them, plus five activation fees — was still exact.

Two of those three moved a price against the reader's interest, and we published them anyway. A comparison site that only ever finds good news about its partners is not auditing anything. The dates above are the firm's own pages as we read them, and every correction is timestamped in the firm's entry.

What the badges mean

📧 Email-verified — sourced from the firm's own promotional email. Strongest signal.
EVERGREEN — a standing code with no expiry date, re-checked on the same rolling cycle.
Expires … — a time-limited campaign; the date shown is the firm's own deadline, and the code is removed after it.

The honest limits

We do not complete a purchase at 56 checkouts every day — no coupon site does, whatever they claim. A firm can kill a code mid-campaign without telling anyone, so a code can be dead until our cycle next reaches it. If a code fails for you, tell us — reports get checked and fixed in the next cycle.

Affiliate disclosure

Some codes are our own partner codes and some links are affiliate links (marked rel="sponsored"). We earn a commission if you sign up through them; you pay the same price. Where we have our own code with a firm, we lead with it and may leave out that firm's other codes; for other firms we list the firm's own public codes. Affiliate agreements also set listing order: firms we have one with are listed first — see the about page for the full policy.