How we verify promo codes

The short version: a code only earns a green “working” badge on Clipper after a real person applies it at a real checkout and files the receipt. Codes we found but haven't proven are labeled untried. Codes that failed go to a published graveyard instead of quietly disappearing. And when a proof gets old, the label says so — a code last proven 70 days ago will tell you it may have expired, because pretending otherwise would be lying with a green checkmark.

Where codes come from

Our agents hunt continuously: newsletters we subscribe to with our own inboxes, brands' own pages, and live searches run at the moment you paste a product link. Every code enters the vault as untried — found is not the same as working, and we never blur that line.

What counts as proof

A checkout. A crew member carries the code to the store's actual cart, applies it, and records the outcome — pass or fail, and the measured discount if it passed. That record is the receipt. Each code's page shows its receipt count and the date of its last successful proof. One receipt from last week beats ten claims of “verified today” from sites that tested nothing.

Freshness, honestly labeled

Codes expire without notice, so proof decays. Our labels reflect it: proven within 3 weeks reads as fresh; within two months it still shows the proof date; past that, the green drops entirely and the label switches to last proven N days ago — may have expired, verify at checkout. We'd rather admit uncertainty than sell you a stale checkmark.

The graveyard is data

Dead codes stay published, marked dead, with the date they died. Most coupon sites hide failures because a wall of “working” codes converts better. We publish ours because the graveyard is how you know the green badges mean something.

What we refuse to do

We don't run bots against store checkouts — automated cart-stuffing violates the terms most shops set, and a verification you got by breaking the rules isn't trust, it's liability. We don't print codes we haven't seen work just to pad a page. We don't claim “verified today” on anything a human didn't verify. And our outbound links never overwrite another site's affiliate credit — if you arrived from someone else's recommendation, their tag rides through untouched.

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