How cashback tracking works
Understanding the pipeline is the difference between reliable cashback and mystery losses. Five stages, each with a failure mode you can avoid.
The pipelinelink
- 1Click: your signed-in click-through on a deal page mints a tracked visit tied to your account (it appears in /clicks).
- 2Purchase: you buy on the merchant site during that visit.
- 3Report: the merchant’s network reports the transaction against your tracked visit.
- 4Confirm: the transaction sits pending until the merchant confirms it — usually after their return/cancellation window.
- 5Credit: on confirmation, the cashback credits your wallet and appears in /earnings.
Where attribution breaks (avoid these)link
- check_circleSigned-out clicks — no identity, no credit, unrecoverable.
- check_circleLeaving and coming back later via a different route — the purchase attributes to the last referrer, which may no longer be you. Re-click through the deal before buying.
- check_circleCoupon codes from other sites applied at checkout — many merchants re-attribute the sale to the coupon’s source.
- check_circleAd blockers / privacy modes that strip tracking parameters on the way to the merchant.