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 54 firms tracked and 91 active codes, each carrying the date it was last re-checked. Here is the whole process, including its limits.

Where codes come from

  1. 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 โ€” those codes get the ๐Ÿ“ง Email-verified badge.
  2. The firm's own website. Banners, checkout pages, and announcement bars on the firm's official domain.
  3. Our own partner codes. Codes issued to us directly by firms we partner with. These are verified by the firm itself when issued, and typically carry the largest discount the firm allows.

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. Every code carries its own check date, shown on the card, so you never have to take the cycle on trust:

The "verified" date stamped on firm pages and in the site header is generated at build time from this data โ€” 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 is what it produced in the last two weeks โ€” including the times it corrected us against our own commercial interest.

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

The honest limits

We do not complete a purchase at 58 checkouts every day โ€” no coupon site does, whatever they claim. A firm can kill a code mid-campaign without telling anyone, so a code can be dead for up to a few hours before our cycle catches it. If a code fails for you, tell us โ€” 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 or less. This never affects whether a code gets listed or how firms rank โ€” see the about page for the full policy.

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