Is there any way to prevent influencer promo codes from ending up on discount sharing sites like Honey or Deal Spotr?
Hi, @SusieCGS !
Your question is a great one!
Regrettably, there is no foolproof method to prevent influencer promo codes from being shared on discount sharing sites such as Honey or Deal Spotr. These sites utilize automated tools to crawl the internet for discount codes, and they may detect influencer codes that are publicly shared.
In order to minimize this, I would suggest setting the discount codes with some limits, for example;
Limiting to one use per customer and setting an expiration date as shown below
Another thing you can try is to contact Honey and Deal Spotr support and request that they delist your website. You can contact Honey support here and Deal Spotr at this link here.
If you’re looking for a way to protect your promo codes and prevent them from being shared on discount sites, you can check out Promo Pirates here in our app store. This app provides a range of features to help you protect your promo codes. With Promo Pirates, you can ensure that your promo codes are only used by the intended recipients and prevent them from being shared on discount sites.
Let me know if you have any questions about the points above. Speaking of discount codes, you might find this blog called 18 Discount Code Ideas and Tips for 2023 here helpful for your store!
Hey Susie,
Our app, Veeper, has a product called Coupon Blocker which stops coupon extensions from leaking and auto-injecting codes at your checkout in real-time. We also have a product called Coupon Scanner which scans every discount site daily and alerts you of when codes end up on the sites.
What usually breaks first here is not the discount engine itself, it is code governance.
If some codes are meant to stay private or influencer-only, the cleanup I would do is:
- separate truly public codes from private or campaign-only codes
- rotate or disable the ones that should not keep circulating
- shorten expiry and tighten limits on future campaign codes
- suppress the known-safe public codes so they stop creating noise later
The hard part is that most stores do not have a clean operating layer for “this code is public” vs “this code should never spread.”
That is the exact workflow I am building around with CodeShield. If useful, I can share the promo leak audit checklist we use to review this kind of mess.
There isn’t really a great way to get around this. But you can protect your margins when you’re running sales by rejecting the use of discount codes / influencer promo codes.
With Dollarlabs Ultimate Discounts, you can reject codes based on patterns / from specific list of codes as well.
I’ve attached a link to our helpdesk article on this topic for further reading if you’re interested.
Many of our customers already use this feature to great effect.