Grocery Coupon Guide

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Finding Great Coupons - Internet Printable Coupons

Online printable coupons can be a great source of coupons, if your local retailers accept them. There are two types of Internet coupon sites: the coupon publishers, or clearing houses, and the manufacturer product sites/email links.

Both types of sites provide coupons online for specific products. The coupons are printed directly from your computer using a standard printer, paper, and toner/ink cartridge. In general, the user must create an account, and download and install coupon printing software (Active X script). Each publisher has their own software, with subsequent security and privacy issues.

Coupons printed have unique coding to the individual who printed it. Most sources utilize Digital FSI encoding, within the Coupons.com information system. Information is collected and analyzed based on the coupons printed, and when, if, and where they are redeemed. There is a limit on the number of times a coupon may be printed, and each coupon printed is coded with a unique identifier to the individual account it was printed from. They may not be copied, reproduced, or transferred. To do so is considered fraud, and it is traceable back to the original account holder for each coupon.

Coupon Publishing Sites

These sites are typically created and maintained by the same companies that print the Sunday inserts. They offer a similar variety of coupons, frequently on the same products. They should be considered as a printable newspaper insert. Any difficulties with printing or redeeming the coupons are addressed directly to the publisher, not the manufacturer. The trade-off between the cost of printing (paper, toner, supplies) needs to be considered against potential savings from the coupons.

It should be noted that as with those Sunday inserts, each publishing site offers a different selection of coupons, depending upon your locale, shopping habits, and even the site you are using to access their coupon database.

The major sites for “online insert database coupons” are:

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