How we source discount codes

Every listing on Discount-Code.com comes from a source you can open: the merchant's own pages or a named third party that published the code. We show who reported it, what they said it does, the conditions they stated and when we last checked.

What we publish

Reported discount codes — the exact code text as the source printed it, with the benefit in the source's own units. A code named SAVE15 is not assumed to be 15% or $15; we use whatever the source states.
Other ways to save — official signup offers, rewards, referral and student, military or healthcare programs, free-shipping thresholds and automatic sales. These have no code to copy, so we link the merchant page that explains them.
Policies that affect a discount — shipping, returns and rules such as "one code per order", quoted from the merchant where we could read them.

What the labels mean

Label	Meaning
Merchant advertised	The store itself publishes the offer on its own website.
Reported by [publisher]	A named coupon site published the code. Their words such as "verified" are their claim, not ours.
Shared by [creator]	A creator or ambassador published the code publicly (for example in a video description).
Shopper reported	An attributable public post by a shopper, with its date.
Search-indexed report	We could only see the code in a search-engine extract, not on the page itself. These are shown as history, not current.
Checkout not tested	We reviewed the source, not a real cart. A code can still fail for your order because of eligibility, exclusions, minimum spend or because the merchant ended it.

Dates and expiry

Source checked is when we last confirmed the source still shows the offer. First observed is when we first recorded it. Re-reading an old report does not make it new.
Expires appears only when the source states a deadline. Otherwise we say Expiry not published rather than inventing a month-end date.
A listing leaves the current section the moment a stated deadline passes, or when we haven't re-confirmed its source within our review window — 7 days for merchant pages and 3 days for third-party reports. Older listings move to a separate history section and never count as current codes.

What we don't do

We don't guess codes or generate variations (seeing WELCOME10 doesn't mean WELCOME20 exists).
We don't publish personal, single-use or account-bound codes.
We don't show fake success rates, fake shopper activity, countdown timers or review stars.
We don't hide codes behind pop-ups, sign-ups or forced clicks to a store.
We don't bypass logins, paywalls or bot protections to read a source.

Review before publication

We use software, including AI tools, to help find sources and organize what they say. Software can make mistakes, so a person reviews each new or changed fact against its source before it appears on a store page, and every published fact keeps a link to the source it came from.

Automated web searches (not reviewed)

When you search for a store we don't have a reviewed page for, we may run an automated web search with an AI model to find codes and offers that other sites have published. The results appear on a separate page marked Not reviewed, not on a store page.

We keep an offer only if the search returned the page it came from, and every offer links that page.
Codes are shown as the source printed them. We drop offers the source marks as ended.
Nobody on our team has checked these results, and the AI can make mistakes. Check the source and your cart before you rely on one.
These pages show the date of the search and can appear in search engines, always labelled as automated and unreviewed. When someone opens one that is more than a week old, we run the search again. Once we publish a reviewed page for the store, it replaces the automated one.

Corrections

Every listing has a Report an issue button. Reports go to a private review queue — they don't automatically change a label — and we recheck the source. Merchants can send corrections or official offers through our contact page.

Money

We may earn a commission when you buy through some links. Commission never decides which listings appear, their order or their labels. Read the affiliate disclosure.