How status decisions are made
Coupon Verification Methodology
See the source hierarchy, status labels and evidence rules CouponWarden uses before displaying merchant offers.
Draft template · owner/legal fields must be confirmed before publication.
Source priority
- Official promotion or offer pages
- Official help-center articles
- Official promotion and membership terms
- Official landing pages
- Authorized partner sources when necessary
- Reputable secondary sources only for discovery or corroboration
Status labels
- Active: evidence supports a current generally available promotion.
- Targeted: account, audience, payment, geography or another eligibility condition applies.
- Expired: evidence supports that the promotion is no longer current.
- Unverified: a claim exists, but current evidence is not strong enough to display it as current.
No-code offers
Some promotions are applied by an eligible landing page, account, membership or cart rather than a public code. In those cases, code: null is the correct data value.
Checkout testing
CouponWarden does not claim that an offer was tested at checkout unless a human actually performed and documented that test. Source verification and checkout testing are separate claims.
Freshness
Last checked records a real research attempt. Last successful verification records a completed verification. Article dateModified changes only for material editorial or offer-state changes.