How submissions are reviewed

What happens when you press submit

1. 1. Automatic checks, at the door

   Prohibited categories, link shorteners that hide where they go, contact details in the description, and a minimum length and word count. These are fixed rules, applied identically to everyone, and nothing gets past them.

2. 2. A review of the listing itself

   Whether the tip actually tells a reader something, whether the link belongs to the brand, whether the offer matches what the brand does. Most submissions get a decision in seconds.

3. 3. A person, when it's genuinely unclear

   Anything the automated review isn't confident about goes to a human — as does every brand that isn't on useInvites yet. Being sent to a person is not a rejection.

What the review checks

Each of these is judged on its own. The two marked must passmean the listing is wrong rather than weak — a link that goes somewhere else, or an offer that isn’t this brand’s. The rest send it to a person.

• Pro tip substance

  sent to a person if unclear

  Contains at least one specific a reader can act on: a condition (e.g. 'make a card payment'), a timeframe (e.g. 'within 30 days'), a named step, a requirement, or a practical tip. Mentioning the reward alongside conditions is fine — the conditions themselves are the substance.

  Nothing but vague encouragement ('great app, sign up!'). After stripping adjectives, no condition, step, or timeframe remains. Use 'unsure' if marginal.

• Brand match

  must pass

  The offer described plausibly belongs to this brand's actual product.

  The offer clearly belongs to a different company or product than the brand it was filed under. Adjacent products from the same company are 'unsure', not 'fail'.

• Link authenticity

  must pass

  The link plausibly belongs to this brand's referral programme. Tracking parameters and referral subdomains are normal and are not a failure.

  The link's domain is unrelated to the brand, or the destination is deliberately obscured.

• Offer currency

  sent to a person if unclear

  No stated end date, or a stated end date still in the future.

  States an end date that has already passed.

• Language quality

  sent to a person if unclear

  Comprehensible to a general reader. Non-native but clear English passes — judge comprehensibility, never dialect or accent.

  Machine-translated, incoherent, or garbled to the point that a reader cannot extract the meaning.

• Substantive duplication

  sent to a person if unclear

  Says something the brand's existing live tips do not already say.

  Near-identical in substance to an existing live tip for the same brand, differing only in the code.

• Brand reputability

  sent to a person if unclear

  The brand is a well-known, established company with a real referral programme. Examples: Uber, Monzo, Airbnb, DoorDash, Revolut, Cash App, Binance. If you recognise it as a real, operating company, it passes.

  The brand name is unrecognisable, appears fictitious, is associated with known scams, or has no verifiable online presence. Niche but legitimate brands are 'unsure', not 'fail'.

The written description