How We Verify Coupons

Most coupon sites will not tell you where their codes come from. Here is
exactly how TroveCoupon works, including the parts that are not flattering.

Where the codes come from

We run an automated system that collects publicly available promo codes for
the brands we cover, records what each code claims to do, and stores the expiry
date when the brand publishes one. No code on this site is invented by us, and we
never pad a page with made-up offers to make a brand look busier than it is.

How often we re-check

Codes are re-checked on a schedule, not once and forgotten. Every brand page
carries a “Last verified” date, and that date is real — it is
the timestamp of the last time our system actually refreshed that page. We do not
reset it every morning to look active, which is a common trick.

When a code stops being available, it comes off the page at the next check.
When a brand has no working codes at all, we take the whole page down instead of
leaving an empty table for you to scroll through.

What “verified” honestly means — and what it does not

It means the code was collected from a real source and was still listed as
available at our last check. It does not mean a human tested it
in a live cart minutes before you arrived. No coupon site can honestly claim that
across thousands of brands, and any site that does is lying to you.

Codes can and do fail. The usual reasons: a minimum spend you have not met,
new-customer-only terms, a region restriction, or excluded sale items. That is
why we list several codes per brand and print the conditions next to each one.

How we rank the codes on a page

Biggest verifiable discount first, then offers that need no code. We do
not sell placement. A brand cannot pay us to sit at the top of a
page, to have a dead code left up, or to have a rival taken down.

What we deliberately do not show you

You will not find “87% success rate”, “used 3,412 times today”, star ratings,
or a countdown timer on this site. We do not measure any of those things, so
printing them would be fabrication. The only signals we show are ones we can
actually observe: how many codes are live, when we last checked, and when a code
expires.

How we make money, in one sentence

If you use one of our links and buy something, the brand may pay us a
commission — your price is unchanged, and the commission never buys a brand better
placement. Full details in our Affiliate
Disclosure.

Found a dead code?

Tell us on the Contact page. Reader reports catch the
cases our automated checks miss, and they are the fastest way to get a bad code
pulled.