For cashback & deals
Cashback and Coupon
Affiliate Programs
With Verified Codes and Feeds You Can Automate
Connect your coupon portal, cashback platform, extension or deal channel to software, SaaS and e-commerce campaigns — with codes that are checked, feeds you can automate, and a brief that tells you up front whether incentive traffic is accepted.
- Codes verified, not just listed
- Sub ID carries your user ID back
- Acceptance stated per campaign
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Verified only
Active promo codes
Expired and unofficial codes are disallowed network-wide, not merely discouraged.
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Vanity codes
Coupon-level attribution
A code tied to your account credits you even when no tracking link was clicked.
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API feed
Automated deal import
Pull live promotions, discounts, landing URLs and expiry dates instead of hand-editing.
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High AOV
Software & SaaS baskets
Annual licenses and B2B plans carry larger orders than general retail.
Built for deal traffic
Built for High-Volume Deal Aggregators
Attribution and tooling that assume the buyer arrives with a code, not with a cookie.
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Exclusive and vanity promo codes
Branded discount codes issued against your publisher account, so a conversion is credited to you even when the buyer typed the code straight into checkout and never touched a tracking link.
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Automated offer feeds
Pull active promotions, discount values, destination URLs and expiry dates through the Scaleo API on a schedule you set, so your listings stop drifting out of date between manual updates.
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Attribution that survives the cart
Server-to-server postbacks fire from our side, not the browser's, so extension and toolbar conversions still report when the cookie is gone. Extensions must ask the user first — covert parameter injection is banned network-wide.
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Codes that actually work
Promo codes on this network have to be active and official; expired or invented vouchers are a policy breach, not an inconvenience. Fewer dead codes is the difference between a portal readers return to and one they stop trusting.
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Baskets worth a discount
B2B software, annual SaaS passes and digital products carry higher order values than general retail, which is what makes a percentage payout worth the placement.
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Payouts you call, not a calendar
On request from $10, with no cycle to wait out, and validation terms written in the brief — which matters when you are fronting user cashback before the advertiser clears it.
Incentive traffic is opened per campaign, not network-wide. Cashback, points and reward clicks are blocked by default and enabled only where the advertiser has tagged the campaign for them, and coupon placements need the brand's written sign-off. You see which is which in the brief before you apply — the full rules are in the campaign guidelines and how compliance is enforced.
Before you apply
What Decides Whether You Can Run a Campaign
Access to cashback affiliate programs is set per campaign, not per network, and every line that decides it sits on the brief before you apply. These are the eight a deal platform reads first.
| Line on the brief | What it decides for a deal platform | Where you see it |
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| Incentive tag | Whether cashback, points and rewarded clicks count at all. On an untagged campaign they are invalidated, not paid at a lower rate. | Traffic section of the brief |
| Coupon sign-off | Whether you may list a code at all. Coupon and deal placements need the brand's written sign-off. | Brief, per campaign |
| Vanity code | Whether a code can be issued against your account, so a checkout where nobody clicked a link still credits you. | Agreed per campaign |
| Allowed sources | Which of your properties may run it. A portal, a wallet, an extension and a channel are four separate answers. | Traffic checklist |
| Paid search | Whether you may bid at all. Brand names, trademarks and misspelled domains are refused network-wide unless a campaign explicitly permits them. | Traffic checklist |
| Countries | Which markets count. A conversion from an unlisted country is rejected rather than repriced. | Country list |
| Validation rules | What gets taken back later: refunds, cancelled orders, and traffic that fails review. | Brief and advertiser terms |
| Hold period | How long an approved conversion waits before it can be paid — the number that decides when a user's rebate is safe to release. | Brief, before you apply |
Read the incentive tag and the hold period first: one decides whether the conversion counts, the other decides when you can pay your user. The live index, filterable by vertical, model and region, is on browse campaigns, and the checklist that applies to every publisher type is on affiliate programs, compared.
Formats
Monetize Any Deal and Discount Format
Four ways discount traffic reaches a checkout, and how each one is wired up.
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Coupon and voucher portals
High-intent searchers arriving on "promo code for X" who already know what they want to buy.
How it integrates Vanity codes, reveal-on-click coupon cards, and direct tracking links per listing.
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Cashback and rewards platforms
A registered user base earning a percentage or a fixed reward back on each qualifying purchase.
How it integrates Postbacks carrying your own user ID in a sub ID, so a wallet can be credited the moment the sale clears.
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Shopping browser extensions
Checkout assistants that surface an applicable code while the buyer is looking at the cart.
How it integrates Scheduled feed pulls plus cookieless S2S attribution — with the user's consent obtained up front.
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Deal communities and channels
Telegram groups, Discord servers and social channels posting flash sales and software bargains.
How it integrates Short deep links per post, so each drop reports separately instead of pooling into one number.
Where discounts convert
Best Categories for Discount and Cashback Audiences
Four categories whose buyers look for a code before they check out.
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Software & antivirus
The most seasonal category on the network. License renewals cluster around Black Friday and the new year, and discount depth in those windows is what moves a shopper who was already going to buy something.
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B2B SaaS subscriptions
Annual plans carry the margin that lets an advertiser fund a real code. A discount is often what converts a trial user who had been putting the decision off, rather than winning a new one outright.
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E-commerce & digital goods
Electronics, courses and digital tools, where the same buyer comes back. Commission is usually a share of basket value confirmed after the return window, so approved amounts settle later here than elsewhere.
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VPN & privacy services
Long-running search interest and an audience that expects to find a code before subscribing. Multi-year plans are common, which puts the order value well above a monthly signup.
The whole catalog, with the payout model on each, is on offer categories. What a payout model means in practice is on payout models.
The money
Paying Users Before the Advertiser Pays You
A rebate is a promise made on a sale that has not cleared. Four things decide how much you can promise and when it is safe to release.
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Your margin
The rebate comes out of the same commission
Whatever you hand back to the user is subtracted from the payout on that sale. The rate you advertise is a decision about your own margin, not a number the advertiser sets for you.
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Pending
A conversion arrives unearned
It lands as pending while the advertiser sits inside the hold period, which guards against refunds and cancelled orders. The end date sits next to the conversion.
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Reversal
A cleared sale can still come back
A refunded order or traffic that fails review reverses the commission, with the reason and the campaign shown. A rebate you already released is not recoverable from the user, so releasing early is a risk you are carrying yourself.
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Payment
Then it leaves when you ask
Cleared balances go out when you request them, from $10 up, at any tier — but on the day they clear the advertiser's hold, not on the day the sale happened.
How earnings clear covers pending, approved, held and paid; the payment schedule covers the minimum, the methods and the request; and the tier ladder, which moves your bonus rate rather than your payment timing, is on the loyalty program.
Integration
Automate Your Coupon Content
Three integration points do the work a person would otherwise do by hand: two feeds that keep your listings current, and one callback that tells you a sale happened. Everything you pass on the click comes back on the conversion.
- Offers feed Live campaign data Campaign name, destination URL, payout model, allowed GEOs and whether incentive traffic is accepted — refreshed on your own schedule.
- Coupon feed Active codes and expiry Current discount codes with their value, terms and end date, so a listing can retire itself instead of waiting for a reader to report a dead code.
- Postback Real-time conversions A server-to-server call the moment a sale is recorded, carrying back the sub ID values you sent — your own user ID among them, which is what credits a cashback wallet.
Endpoint paths and your API key live in the dashboard once the account is approved — they are not printed here, because a stale signature on a marketing page is a failed first integration. Link anatomy and the five sub ID slots are on tracking links.
What comes back
- Campaign name and destination URL
- Payout model and current rate
- Allowed GEOs and traffic rules
- Whether incentive traffic is accepted
- Active codes, values and expiry dates
- Your sub IDs, returned on conversion
Six fields is what a listing needs to publish itself and retire itself without anyone editing a page.
Worth repeating
A code is only a deal if the advertiser said it could be one. Every brief states which incentive traffic it takes, before you build the page.
The rules are in the campaign guidelines, and how compliance is enforced covers what happens when a placement runs outside them.
Getting started
Launch Deal Campaigns in Four Steps
From application to first payout, with what the review checks stated up front.
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Register your platform
Sign up as a publisher and describe the property — coupon portal, cashback app, extension or channel. Incentive traffic has to be declared here, because that is what campaign access is matched against.
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Get your sources approved
A person reviews the platform and the traffic behind it. Extensions are checked for one thing in particular: that the user is asked before anything is applied.
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Connect the feed or take the codes
Wire up the offers and coupon feeds through the API, or request vanity codes per campaign and place them by hand. Both attribute to the same account.
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Distribute and get paid
Publish the deals, watch conversions land against your sub IDs in real time, and withdraw on the schedule your tier unlocks.
How approval works walks through the review in full, and the payment schedule covers thresholds, hold periods and when money actually lands — the number that decides how you fund user cashback.
Approval
What the Review Opens, and What Pulls a Placement
Nothing here is specific to your size. It is specific to your publisher type — a deal platform is judged on where its codes come from and whether its users know what is happening.
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What a reviewer opens
- The live portal, wallet, extension or channel — a parked domain or an empty profile is not a source
- The consent screen, if you run an extension: the user has to be asked before anything is applied
- Where your codes come from, because only official, active codes may be listed
- Every traffic type you intend to promote from, declared up front
- Any past ban, disclosed by you rather than found by us
- One login. Duplicate accounts get merged or closed
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What pulls a placement afterwards
- Expired or invented codes left live on a listing
- Incentive traffic sent to a campaign that carries no incentive tag
- Bidding on an advertiser's brand, trademark or misspelled domain
- An extension that injects an affiliate parameter without asking
- Traffic from a source that is not on your application
- Conversions the advertiser flags as self-referred
The first rung is a pause and a notice saying what was found; conversions from the placement are invalidated; repeated or fraudulent breaches end the account. The whole ladder is written out in the campaign guidelines, so nothing on it arrives as a surprise.
Questions
FAQ for Cashback & Coupon Platforms
What deal operators ask before they wire a feed into their own product.
Do you support vanity promo codes tied to my account?
Yes. Where an advertiser offers coupon-level attribution, a code can be issued against your publisher account so the sale is credited to you even if the buyer never clicked your tracking link. It is agreed per campaign rather than granted network-wide, and the campaign brief says whether it is available.
Which campaigns actually accept cashback and coupon traffic?
The ones the advertiser has explicitly tagged for it. Incentive traffic is blocked by default across the network and opened per campaign, so the brief tells you before you apply whether your traffic type qualifies. That is deliberately restrictive, and it is why approved conversions from this channel stay approved.
Can we pull active deals automatically?
Yes. The Scaleo API exposes campaign details, tracking links, current promo codes and expiry dates, so your listings can refresh themselves on a schedule. The exact endpoints and your API key are in your publisher dashboard once the account is approved.
How do postbacks work for a cashback wallet?
When a purchase is recorded, our server calls yours with the sub ID values you passed on the click. Put your own user ID in one of the five sub ID slots and the postback hands it straight back, which is what lets you credit the right wallet without reconciling a report by hand.
Are there restrictions on browser extension traffic?
Two. It is allowed only on campaigns that accept it, like all incentive traffic. And the extension has to act with the user's knowledge — anything that injects an affiliate parameter silently is prohibited under our campaign guidelines, whatever the campaign says.
Which cashback and coupon affiliate programs pay the most?
No rate is published on this site, because rates are set per campaign by the advertiser and change. Compare four lines instead: whether the campaign is tagged for incentive traffic at all, what the commission is calculated on, which conversions its validation rules reverse, and how long the hold runs. A smaller percentage that clears reliably beats a larger one that is invalidated for traffic type.
Does my coupon site need existing traffic to be approved?
A reviewer opens the property, so it has to exist and have real listings, real categories and a working flow — a parked domain or an empty profile is not a source. There is no published traffic minimum; what is checked is that the platform is real, the codes come from somewhere legitimate and the traffic types you declare match what you actually run.
Can I bid on a brand name plus “coupon” or “promo code”?
Not by default. Bidding on advertiser brand names, trademarks or misspelled domains is prohibited network-wide, and that includes brand-plus-modifier keywords. A campaign can permit it explicitly; unless the brief says so, treat it as refused.
When is it safe to release a user's cashback?
Once the conversion is approved and the hold period on that campaign has finished. Before then the sale can still be refunded or the traffic can fail review, and the commission is reversed with the reason shown. Releasing a rebate earlier is a float you are funding yourself, which is why the hold length on the brief is worth reading before you set your payout rules.
Can I run a cashback wallet and a coupon portal from one account?
Yes, and you should — duplicate accounts get merged or closed. Declare both properties when you apply, because campaign access is matched against the traffic types on your profile rather than against the domain.
Do you accept deal channels on Telegram or Discord?
Yes, as a declared source. The same two conditions apply as everywhere else: the campaign has to accept incentive traffic, and the placement has to be one you told us about. Use a separate sub ID per drop so each post reports on its own instead of pooling into one line.
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