Coupons & Deals Policy: Your Trust, Our Priority

At ShoppingWays.com, we know that saving money should be simple and not a frustrating trial and error experience. If you've ever entered five different codes at checkout only to see the dreaded "invalid coupon" message, you're likely all-too-familiar with the disappointment. This happens all too often with coupon sites that publish hundreds of codes without verification. Obviously, we have chosen a different strategy. Every coupon you see on ShoppingWays is verified before it is published. Our promise is simple: the codes we provide must work, the deals must be valid, and the savings must be real. Your trust is too valuable for us to risk.

The importance of Verification

The online coupon community is a whole lot of noise. Many of the sites use a "spray and pray" approach to coupons, posting thousands of codes in hopes that even a few will work. Typically you just end up wasting time, creating checkout frustration, or you may miss an opportunity for a true savings that is buried beneath all of the junk. We understand your time is precious. That is why at ShoppingWays we strive for verification first. When you are ready to purchase you don't want to mess around try broken codes. It is our goal that 95%+ of the codes that we share will work on the first attempt. Our approach will save you time, eliminate frustration and allow you to feel confident that you are getting the best deal available.

How We Source Our Deals:

Every coupon or offer posted on our site comes as a result of an established and dependable source built on relationships built in the industry! We deal directly with more than 500 major retailers and growing brands to provide you with exclusive offers. Through many of these relationships, we are privy to earlier modes of communications about upcoming seasonal sales, flash sales, special presence for our readers, or unique discount codes created just for our readers!

Our direct relationships with brands are only part of the picture. We are also part of premium affiliate networks like CJ Affiliate, ShareASale, and Impact Radius. These affiliate networks allow us to access promotions with the enterprise-level retailers we all know and love, discounted deals from boutique retailers, and typically do not see promotions exclusive to each network, like software or professional services. While we capitalize on our direct relationships with brands, we also monitor official communications issued by brands' newsletters, press releases, or real-time information on social networking platforms. Whether it is identifying subscriber-only deals, flash sales with little time to purchase, or promotions connected to product launches and holidays, we keep our ears to the grindstone so you do not have to.

Our Coupon Verification Process:

One of the distinguishing factors about ShoppingWays is that every coupon we distribute is vetted by a real person prior to becoming live. Our deal curation review team runs every code across various devices, browsers and checkout experiences. We make sure that the coupons work on all platforms and payment types, no matter if you shop on a desktop, mobile or tablet device.

We also verify where the deals are available geographically. We not only check to see that deals can be utilized in the U.S., but also check to see if discounts only apply in certain regions or countries. We put the coupon through all stages of a shopping cart experience and check for exclusions on specific products, so there are no last minute surprises because of fine print. Of course, functionality is only half the effort. We also check to see if there is any real value in the coupon we provide. This would mean we compare discounts that may not be more recent against historical pricing, consider shipping fees or taxes that could potentially offset a given value of a discount, and look to see if the promotion gives any competitive value in the marketplace.

Keeping Deals Updated

Coupons are short-lived! To keep our database updated, we check promotions and adjust the content daily. Our team checks all expired and changed offers each morning and adds any new codes we discover overnight. We check social media and flash sales in the afternoon, and use our evenings for preparing to update the next day and planning promotions for upcoming seasons.

In addition to daily updates we do weekly deep audits! This is where we examine the entire database, look at the performance of the codes, and touch base with merchants to maintain our relationships. For peak shopping seasons like Black Friday or back-to-school we prep early to ensure we have the best exclusive deals for readers.

Our real-time monitoring systems also let us know immediately when merchants pull or alter promotions. When reader feedback is also factored in, it allows expired or bad codes to be removed very quickly (usually hours).

Managing Expired Coupons

Expired deals are handled seriously. If a promotion is nearing expiration we will let readers know ahead of time, and most often will work with merchants to extend or replace the offer. After a deal expires, we remove a code in two hours or less so that our site can remain clean and fresh.However, we do keep expired coupons in private archives. We analyze seasonal trends, price histories, and anticipated savings patterns. This allows us to aid readers in understanding when to buy and when to wait.

Our Commitment to Transparency:

Above all, we are dedicated to honesty. We do not publish fake codes, place holder codes or fabrications. We fully disclose our business relationships and our success rates will be available for you to evaluate. If we make a mistake, we own it, we fix it, and we use it as a lesson for improvement. We value quality over quantity. Meaning, we would rather provide you with a limited set of trustworthy high-value deals, then bombard you with unreliable codes in the hundreds. Every decision we make is based on usefulness to you, rather than short-term commission maximization.

Why ShoppingWays?

Our coupons are not automatically validated by using an automated coupon aggregator, they are human-verified coupon codes. Since we have direct partnerships with retailers, we give you access to deals that you cannot find anywhere else! More importantly, our reader-first philosophy means that saving our readers money and time will always come before our own profits. We are continuously improving, we are investing in better verification tools, building on partnerships, and carefully listening to readers. This is how we are able to continue improving a coupon experience built on trust, reliability, and real savings.

Contact & Support

If you ever have an issue, want to recommend a development or simply ask a question about a deal? Contact us anytime at our contact page, and we will always respond with honesty and urgency. At ShoppingWays.com, we respect your trust. When you come to our site we want you to be comfortable knowing that every deal you see has been verified, tested and shared with one common motivation: so that you can save a few bucks and avoid the pain.