How We Source and Update Coupons

GangaCoupons lists discount codes and offers for hundreds of online stores. This page explains where those codes come from, how often they change, what we check before publishing one, and — just as important — what we do not claim about them.

Where the codes come from

Every code on the site comes from one of two places:

  • The brand’s own affiliate programme. Brands publish their current public offers through affiliate networks. We work with Impact, Awin, Admitad and Rakuten, and we read each brand’s offers straight from the programme it runs there.
  • The brand’s own website and promotions. Sale pages, banners, festival offers and public landing pages run by the brand itself.

We do not buy code lists, and we do not copy a merchant’s product descriptions onto our pages. Where a page describes a store, that description is written here.

How often the pages are updated

  • Coupon data is collected and updated automatically from the affiliate feeds. That is what keeps codes current across hundreds of stores at once.
  • A person checks what changed before it goes on the page.
  • Stores with active, changing offers are checked most often; every store page is worked through on a rolling schedule.
  • The last updated date on a page is the day a coupon on that page actually changed. It is not today’s date printed automatically, so if a store’s offers have not moved in a month, the date says so.

What we check before a code is published

  • The brand or its programme still lists the code.
  • The end date, where the brand states one. Codes with no stated end date are shown without one rather than with a made-up date.
  • The link goes to the brand’s own website.
  • Codes that name a past year, duplicates and dead entries are removed.

What we do not claim

You will not see “100% working”, “verified 10 minutes ago” or a countdown timer on this site. Those lines are easy to print and they mean nothing: a public code can stop working at any moment, because the brand pulled it, capped how many times it can be used, or limited it to new customers.

What we can honestly say is that the codes on a page were listed by the brand or its programme when the page was last updated, and that the page says when that was.

Where we have actually put a code through a real checkout, we say so on that page and show what happened, including the codes that failed. On our OMTech Laser page, for instance, three codes went through a real cart on the same day: two took 5% off and one was rejected at checkout. The one that failed is still in the table, with the screenshots, because you would have hit it anyway.

How we use automation

Collecting and updating coupon data is automated. The writing is not: the page text on this site is written by people, and where a draft is produced with our own tooling, a real author edits or rewrites it before it is published. We do not publish pages nobody has read.

Expired and broken codes

  • Expired codes are removed from a page rather than left at the bottom.
  • If a code is rejected at checkout, try the next one on the page — and check the terms first. Most failures are a minimum spend, a new-customer-only rule, or a category the offer excludes.
  • If a code is dead, tell us and we will take it down.

How we are paid

When you use a link on this site, the store may pay us a commission. It costs you nothing and it does not change the price you pay. It also does not decide which codes appear or in what order: discount codes come before deals, and the offers a shopper can actually use come first. We list a brand’s best public code even when it earns us nothing.

Something wrong on a page?

Tell us — a dead code, a wrong expiry date or a store we have got out of date. It is the fastest way this site gets better.