How We Verify Coupons
What “verified” means on this site
A code is marked verified when a member of our team has taken it through the merchant’s own checkout and confirmed the discount applied to the order total. We record the date that happened. If a code has never been through that process, it is labelled unverified rather than given a date it did not earn.
The check itself
- We add a qualifying item to the cart on the merchant’s live site.
- We enter the code at the promo field and read the recalculated total.
- We record what the code actually did — a percentage, a fixed amount, a free trial extension, or nothing.
- We note any restriction the checkout reveals: minimum spend, first-order only, excluded product lines, plan tiers, region locks.
- We write the result and the date to the coupon record.
How often we recheck
Codes on our most-visited merchant pages are rechecked on a rolling basis, prioritised by traffic and by how many readers have told us a code failed. Software and subscription merchants change promotional pricing more often than physical-goods retailers, so those pages come round faster.
When a code stops working
Every coupon has a Did it work? control. Reports that a code failed are counted and shown as a success rate once there is enough data to be meaningful — we do not publish a percentage derived from one or two votes. When failure reports cluster, the code is pulled from the active list and moved to the expired section, where it stays visible so you can see we removed it rather than quietly deleting it.
What we do not do
We do not auto-generate codes. We do not publish scraped code lists we have not looked at. We do not restamp a page with today’s date to make old information look fresh — the date you see is the date the check happened.
Tell us when we get it wrong
If a code on this site failed for you, use the feedback control on the coupon or email computechguide@gmail.com. Corrections are the fastest way this site improves.
Maintained by Kristin Wong. Last updated 3 August 2026.