Avoiding cashback transactions not tracking

August 6, 2008

Claiming cashback from your purchases is an extremely simple process and 99% of transactions track without problems. However, from time to time, problems will occur on a very infrequent basis. Note that these occurencies are very rare - otherwise advertising on the internet wouldn’t work! But here are just a few steps you can take to be extra sure.

Clear out your Cookies.
It is possible that you visited the online retailer in the past by following a link from an advert or other Cashback Site. To ensure that the retailer rewards the Cashback Site for the sale and not another site that won’t give you cashback, it is a very good idea to clean out your cookies
Turn off your popup blocker
Some online retailers use popups as part of their method of tracking. The majority don’t but it’s worth disabling your blocker just in case.
Check that nothing else will prevent tracking
If you have some other systems on your computer designed to block advertisements or prevent tracking cookies, you should check that it won’t stop the sale being tracked
Go to the Cashback Site
Log into your preferred cashback site and find the online shop you want to use.
Click through and buy
Click through to the online shop and buy the product(s) you want. If there are any transaction numbers mentioned then be sure to make a note of them so that you can quote them if the Cashback Site has to put in a manual claim for your Cashback