Why discount codes disappear from coupon sites

A discount code doesn’t stop appearing on Fyndare because a coupon site let you down. Some offers leave because the store’s own feed dropped them, or because they crossed a date the store itself stated. Others leave because Fyndare applies its own retirement rules: no real end date and 30 days with no change in the feed, or a code or title that named a date, season or year that had already passed. Today the site rereads each store’s feed every four hours and records what changed since the last read; during the month below, it was read once a night instead.

Fyndare calls that record the event ledger. It opened on July 6, 2026, so what follows covers the time since then, not years of history. From the ledger’s opening onward, an offer gets a row for the moment the sync first recorded it. There are four ways the ledger records an offer from a store’s feed leaving: expired, vanished, stale, and seasonal. A fifth, withdrawn, is only for an offer Fyndare entered by hand and later took down. Each offer counts once, under the first way it left. One that vanished, came back, and later expired still counts as vanished, and one that came back and was still listed at the end of a window counts as vanished too.

What the ledger shows for one month

Of 502 offers Fyndare first recorded between August 1, 2026 and August 31, 2026 (every offer in Fyndare’s event ledger, except those from Awin’s feed), here is what the ledger had recorded about them by September 1, 2026:

• 4 had expired: the store's own feed had stated an end date, and that date passed.
• 264 had vanished: the offer left the feed before any end date the store had stated, or with none stated at all.

The remaining 234 had no recorded exit by September 1, 2026. That isn’t a claim they’re still live today, only that this one-month window hadn’t recorded an exit for them yet.

One store supplied 171 of those 502 offers (34%), so the month’s figures lean heavily on how that one store’s feed behaved.

What this means for the next code you try

None of the four exits is about a shopper’s mistake or a coupon site making something up. Two happen on the feed’s side (an offer dropped from it, or a date it stated passing), and two are Fyndare’s own retirement rules for a code or title that stopped looking current. The gap between an offer actually ending and any of the four getting recorded is exactly why a store page’s synced date, not a badge, is the honest way to judge a code before you copy it.