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Guide to Promo Code Monitoring

Promo Code Monitoring is the process of monitoring your promo codes in all the selected regions. This is used for managing the risk around partners promoting expired or unauthorized promo codes and allows for remediation with those partners. To provide comprehensive coverage, impact.com searches 30+ browser extensions, 15+ code sites, and discount subreddits to find your promo codes.

Create and manage policies

Policies allow you to automate both monitoring and remediation of your promo codes online. If impact.com finds any partners promoting promo codes selected in a policy, the platform will automatically create a violation and send a violation email to that partner.

Before you begin:

  • You must add promo codes to your impact.com program. See Create a Promo Code for more information.

  • Verify that your package includes Promo Code Monitoring. See Upgrade Promo Code Monitoring if you need to add this feature.

  • Confirm your account's promo code monitoring limit, as the number of codes you can track depends on your plan.

  1. In the left navigation menu, select [Protect] v2 [Protect]Monitoring → Policies.

  2. In the upper-right corner, select Create Policy.

  3. Select Promo Code MonitoringGet Started.

  4. Input a Policy Name

  5. Select the Violations that apply:

    Automatically create a violation if a contracted partner promotes a promo code that is:

    Expired — If a partner promotes an expired promo code, a violation is created.

    Not Authorized — If a partner promotes a promo code they're not authorized to, a violation is created.

    Close violations if a promo code is taken down by a partner

    If the partner removes the violating promo code, impact.com will automatically close the violation.

    Automatically send partners who have not completed violations reminder emails

    If a partner hasn't completed the action required to clear the violation, they'll receive automated emails from impact.com reminding them.

    Archive all ads older than 7 days

    Select this option to mark ads older than 7 days as archived on the Monitoring screen. This helps tidy your view. Open violations, however, will not be archived.

  6. Select Next.

  7. On the Manage Promo Codes screen, select the checkboxes for the promo codes you wantto include in this policy.

  8. At the top of the list, select Include to include the selected promo code(s). A checkmark will appear in the promo code line item under the Included column.

  9. When all desired promo codes are included, select Next.

  10. On the Policy Summary screen, review your policy name and included promo codes. If everything looks good, select Save.

Manage policies

  1. To view current policies, navigate to [Protect] v2 [Protect] → Monitoring → Policies.

    • Existing promo code policies appear here.

  2. To modify an existing policy, hover over it and select Edit.

    • Modify the selected promo code policy's name and any included promo codes.

  3. To deactivate, activate, delete, or view the results of an existing policy, hover over it and select [More] vNext [More].

    • De-Activate / Activate: Deactivate (or activate) the promo code policy, indicated by the Status column. When activated, impact.com searches for the included promo codes online. When deactivated, impact.com doesn't actively look for the included promo codes online.

    • Delete: Delete the policy entirely and free up any used promo code slots.

    • View Results: View the results associated with the policy.

Note: Deactivated promo code policies still count toward your total number of monitored promo codes — you must delete the policy to reuse these slots for new promo codes.

Learn more

See the articles below for more information about reviewing specific promo codes, logging violations, or for more insights into the data that impact.com finds on the promo codes included in your policies.

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