How we work, in enough detail to hold us to it

Sourcing

Factual claims on this site come from primary sources wherever one exists. For product mechanics, that means the platform’s own documentation. For brand rules — region locks, expiry, what a balance can pay for — it means the brand’s published terms, not a marketplace’s summary of them. Where the two disagree, we go with the brand, because they are the party who will honour or refuse the code.

For regulatory claims we use the regulator. When we say an exchange holds a particular licence, the licence number appears on the page and links to the register where you can confirm it. We do not repeat a company’s description of its own compliance status without checking it.

For legal and tax material we cite the authority directly: the IRS, HMRC, the ATO, the FCA, AUSTRAC, SEC Nigeria, FIU-IND, and we say plainly that we are not advisers and that thresholds change.

Pricing and markups

Markup figures are expressed as ranges rather than precise numbers, deliberately. Platforms price per brand, per region and per denomination, and those prices move. A page claiming a specific platform charges exactly 3.2% is describing one product on one day and presenting it as a property of the business.

Our method is the one we recommend to readers: take the crypto amount at final checkout, divide by the coin’s spot price from an exchange, compare to face value, add the network fee, subtract any rewards. We run it across multiple brands and platforms and publish the observed range.

We are explicit that this is a snapshot. That is why our fees guide teaches the calculation rather than just publishing a table — the method stays valid when our numbers go stale.

How ratings work

Platform reviews carry a rating out of five. It is assigned by the same person who wrote the assessment, reflects the reasoning in the body text, and is not an aggregate of anybody else’s scores. We do not publish aggregate ratings, because we do not collect user reviews and inventing a sample size would be dishonest.

Five criteria carry the weight: catalogue coverage in real markets, pricing relative to competitors on comparable products, settlement options and their cost, account and verification requirements, and rewards where they exist.

A rating means what the review says it means. If a platform scores 3.5 and the text explains it is excellent at one job and poor at another, the number is a summary of that sentence, not a verdict on the company.

Commercial relationships

Some outbound links on this site are commercial. They carry rel="nofollow noopener sponsored" in the page source, which you can verify in any browser’s view source.

Here is the specific list of what is not available for purchase:

• A rating, or any change to one
• A position in a comparison or a ranking
• Removal or softening of a negative conclusion
• Editorial review of copy before it publishes
• A recommendation in a guide where the product does not fit
• Publication of supplied text as our own

We think a policy is only meaningful if you can test it, so: our platform comparison refuses to name an overall winner and explains that no platform won consistently in our own price checks. Our guide on buying crypto with a gift card tells readers the thing they searched for does not exist on regulated venues. Our promo codes page explains why we will not publish a code list even though one would rank well. None of those are pages written to convert.

The formal version of all this: the affiliate disclosure, the advice disclaimer and the limits on our liability — sits in our terms of use.

Authorship

Content is produced by the CryptoPromo.deals research team and published under the site’s name. We do not invent author personas, fabricate credentials, or attach stock photographs to made-up experts — a practice common enough in this sector to be worth naming.

Where a page describes first-hand experience: a purchase we made, a fee we paid, a mistake we made — that experience is ours and it happened. Where we are summarising published information rather than testing it, we say so.

What we cover and what we avoid

We cover the mechanics of spending and receiving cryptocurrency: gift cards, vouchers, prepaid cards, platform comparisons, fees, regional rules, verification requirements and the consumer protection framework around all of it.

We avoid price predictions, token recommendations, trading strategies, yield products and anything that would constitute investment advice. Not because those topics are uninteresting, but because we are not licensed to give that advice and readers cannot easily tell the difference between a licensed opinion and an unlicensed one.

Corrections

We correct factual errors promptly and note substantive corrections on the page. Send the URL, the specific claim, and a source we can check, to contact@cryptopromo.deals. We verify independently before changing anything — including when the correction comes from the company being written about.

Every page carries a review date. That date means a human re-read the page and checked the claims that were checkable, not that a script touched the file.