How PFR earns from the extension

Referral fees

Firms pay PFR a referral fee when you use a PFR code or link. Firms pay us different referral fees. The fee never changes a ranking, a review or which code the extension shows first.

For firms PFR doesn’t list, the codes come from the firm’s own pages. PFR earns nothing from those codes.

Using a PFR code never raises your price. Where a code works, it lowers it; confirm the final price at the firm’s checkout.

A code goes in only when you click

The extension puts a code into a checkout only after you click Try codes in the panel or Apply the best code in the popup. There is no auto-apply setting, and it never adds a code, a referral link or a cookie in the background.

Closing the panel, choosing Not now or dismissing it adds nothing. If no code works, nothing is added and you pay the full price.

The best code wins, even when it isn’t PFR’s

PFR tries each code on the page and keeps the one with the lowest total. When a firm’s own code, or one you typed, saves more, that code stays and PFR earns nothing on it.

On an exact tie, the code you typed stays in the field. The panel says “best of the codes tried”, never “best price”, and codes you type are never saved or shared.

Standing down on referral links

If you reached a checkout through another site’s referral link — a creator, a community or another comparison site — PFR stands down, the same way for everyone: the panel stays closed, the toolbar button shows no count and PFR suggests no codes.

If you open PFR yourself on that checkout, you still see the plan’s rules. You can choose Show codes anyway; a notice then explains that applying a code can change which site the firm credits. You can turn that option off in the extension’s settings.

Creators’ and private codes

PFR doesn’t republish private or creator codes. A firm can confirm whether a listed code works, or ask for a private code to be removed, and PFR checks each request.