How we check codes
What "typed by hand" means: the checkout test every code passes before it enters the loop.
“Typed by hand” is printed on every card. This page says what that involves, every weekday morning.
Before a person sees it
We pull the day’s offers from retailers’ affiliate programme feeds and discard anything that is not a real discount for a US shopper: foreign-currency offers, restricted categories, duplicates, and plain links dressed up as codes.
The checkout test
A person opens the retailer’s site, adds an item to the basket and types the code. If the discount does not show, the code does not enter the loop. Titles are rewritten so they say what the saving actually is.
The card
The retailer’s end date is printed on the card, or “no end date given” if there is none. The main condition — minimum spend, exclusions, new customers only — is written in one line under the offer.
Leaving the loop
On its end date an offer leaves every live list. It sits in a labelled “recently expired” area for a few days so you can see what changed, then it is deleted. A code you report as dead is re-typed the same day and pulled if it has stopped working.
What we never print: ratings, “verified” badges, usage counts, or prices we have not seen ourselves.