94.7%
Code verification rate
The highest independently audited accuracy in the coupon space. Codes verified at publish time may still expire without notice.
Live verification
Last verified 14 seconds ago · refreshes every 60s
Behind every working code, a 62‑person team that checks it twice — every sixty seconds.
Addicted to Deals is the only deal publisher that publishes its verification pipeline publicly. Below is the exact discipline our editors and crawlers follow between the moment a code lands in our queue and the moment you paste it at checkout — the same discipline that produced our independently audited 94.7% accuracy rate.
- 94.7% audited accuracy
- 18,400+ retailers scanned
- 60s refresh cadence
Chapter 01
The 60‑second verification pipeline
Every code on Addicted to Deals passes through five stages before it can earn a verified badge. Here's what actually happens between the crawler spotting a price drop and a shopper pasting it at checkout.
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Crawl
Our in-house crawler scans 18,400+ retailer sites every 60 seconds and flags any new code, price drop, or cashback window within two minutes of going live at the source.
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Verify
A human verification editor — one of 62 full-time staff plus a 14-person community moderator network — actually tests the code in a sandbox checkout. We log the date, discount, exclusions, and any minimum-spend terms.
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Publish
The code is published with a verified timestamp, a community vote widget, and a clear statement of what's excluded. Shoppers see exactly what the code does and where it stops working.
Transparent disclosure -
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Flag
Our 2.1M verified DealHunter community can vote a code down within minutes. Any code with more than three downvotes in an hour is automatically re-routed to a human reviewer.
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Retire
Codes expire — often without notice. The crawler checks every active code every 60 seconds and rotates dead codes out of the feed automatically, so you never waste a checkout on a stale link.
60s retirement loop
Proprietary IP
The Cashback Stack Engine™
Most deal sites show you one number — the discount on a single code. Addicted to Deals shows you the projected total savings after every layer is applied, in a single line.
Example transaction · Outdoor jacket · $184.00 list
- Paper coupon (verified 22s ago)−$24.00
- Card rewards (issuer-level, USAA Member)−$6.40
- Cashback (logged ATO member)−$5.50
- Stacked tax adjustment (auto)−$2.10
Projected savings
$38.00
Every line is sourced, dated, and explained. If we can't verify a layer, we don't claim it — and the engine flags it as "estimated" so you know what to trust at checkout.
Founder's note
“If you've ever pasted a promo code at checkout, watched the discount disappear, and felt stupid — that feeling is why this company exists. We started Addicted to Deals in 2011 because I, personally, had wasted too many Saturdays on dead codes from sites that didn't care whether they worked. Every editor on this team has the same job description I wrote on day one: never publish a code you wouldn't use yourself, and never let an hour pass without checking that it still works.”
By the numbers
Independently audited, not self‑reported.
Every number below was measured by a third party, not by us. The press citations are unsponsored editorial coverage we did not pay for.
14.8M
Monthly unique visitors
Verified audience reach across desktop and mobile in the United States, with growing UK and AU traffic.
4.7/5
Shopper trust rating
Across 38,400+ verified reviews, rated "Excellent" by Trustpilot's community moderation framework.
$4.7M
Cashback paid per month
Average monthly cashback processed and paid to verified ATO members across the U.S., U.K., and AU.
Newsletter
The Daily Drop reaches 1.2M subscribers with a 41% average open rate — well above the 21% retail-publisher benchmark.
Catalog
612,000+ active promo codes across 18,400+ retailers as of April 2025. Shoppers using a featured code save $28.40 per transaction on average (2024 post-purchase survey, n=84,300).
Featured in
- The New York Times · Wirecutter
- CNBC
- Forbes
- BuzzFeed
- PCMag · "Top 10 Deal Site" 2023
- Loyalty & Awards 2023Best Consumer Savings Platform · UK
- Performance Marketing AwardsShortlisted · Best Coupon/Cashback Publisher · 2022 & 2024
- Trustpilot "Excellent"4.7/5 across 38,400+ reviews
Now you know how it works.
Go get the discount.
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