How We Verify
Coupon Codes

🔗 Where Our Codes Come From

Not all coupon codes are equal — and not all sources are trustworthy. At FatSaver, we apply a strict priority order to where we source codes, starting with the most reliable and working down.

• 1
  Direct from the merchant

  When a brand’s affiliate manager shares an exclusive code with us directly. We maintain active affiliate partnerships with 5,000+ stores through Awin, Impact, CJ Affiliate, Rakuten Advertising, ShareASale, and direct relationships.

  ✓ Highest reliability
• 2
  Public merchant promotions

  Codes a brand publishes directly on their own homepage, email newsletters, or social channels. We monitor store pages to capture these at the source.

  ✓ Brand-confirmed
• 3
  Editor-tested public codes

  Codes our editorial team has personally tried at checkout and confirmed they apply a real discount to the order total before we publish them.

  ✓ Human-tested
• 4
  Community-reported codes

  Codes shared by our readers via our Submit a Deal page. Every community submission is verified by an editor before it goes live — we never auto-publish reader submissions.

  ✓ Editor-reviewed before publish

🧪 Our Testing Process

For every code we publish, our editorial team runs through the same five-step verification process. No shortcuts, no exceptions.

📅 What “Last Verified” Actually Means

When you see “Last verified: April 28, 2026” on a code listing, that’s the actual date one of our editors re-tested the code — or we received a confirmed user report that it worked successfully at checkout.

We never auto-update these dates. Some coupon sites use automated scripts to refresh verification dates without anyone actually testing the code. At FatSaver, every date reflects a real human test. If the date is older, it simply means the code hasn’t needed re-testing recently — it passed our last check and no failure reports have come in.

⚡ What Happens When a Code Stops Working

Codes expire — that’s unavoidable. What matters is how fast we respond. Here’s our policy:

The moment we receive a “didn’t work” report via our Report button or Contact page — or our scheduled re-test fails — we immediately mark the code as expired and remove it from the active listings. We aim to act within 24 hours of any report.

Expired codes are archived in our database but never displayed as active. This means you’ll never see a code on FatSaver that we know has stopped working. If a code appears live on our site, it passed its last test.

For flash deals and time-sensitive offers, our team monitors expiry dates proactively and pulls listings before the deadline rather than waiting for user reports.

🛡️ Why You Can Trust This

Our editorial team operates independently from our commercial partnerships. Here’s what that means in practice:

A brand cannot pay us to feature a code higher in results, mark a non-working code as “verified,” or remove negative information. Affiliate commissions come exclusively from helping you complete a purchase you already wanted to make — not from editorial placement decisions.

We earn money when you find a working deal and complete a purchase. That creates a direct alignment between our incentives and your interests: if we show you bad codes, you stop using us. Our business only works if our codes actually work.

This is the same editorial model used by consumer publishing organisations like Consumer Reports and the editorial teams at major publications — commercial relationships exist, but they don’t influence individual editorial decisions.