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Certainly, your membership on our Buy4schools site is free, and we will not demand anything from you directly or indirectly for utilising our website. We have no plans to charge our customers in the future either.
Once you are logged in to our site, you are automatically linked to our network of retailer shops online and you are then identified by our partner shops, thus tracking your purchase becomes possible.
If you are not logged into our site, our partners will not pay us for your purchases and we cannot pay you any Cashback. Therefore, you have to log in to our site every time you want to make a purchase and earn Cashback through us.
Certainly, we help our members by providing continuous support to get cashback and utilise our free service, nevertheless, if you wish to terminate your membership, you can do this anytime by just sending us a support ticket.
Our terms and conditions clearly assert that an individual can have only one account; therefore, it is not possible for you to have more than one account. The online merchants who have partnered with us have done so under the explicit understanding that they will provide service to only one account per person registered with us. Any violation of our terms and conditions in this regard will lead to suspension of the account without any prior notice.
Just enter your email-id and get your new password by clicking "Reset password" button under "FORGOT YOUR PASSWORD?" and we will send you a new password to your email.
Log in to our site and click on my account button on the top of every page to check your account.
The status displaying in your account indicates the stage your transaction is in.
Pending: The merchant has tracked your transaction but not yet validated it. Merchants usually report a transaction as pending at first, before they check your payment details, returns etc.
Approved: The merchant has approved the transaction and Cashback has been added to your account.
Reversed/Failed: The merchant has reported to us that they will not pay for this transaction (goods returned, payment failed etc). Sometimes merchants can reverse or fail transactions if their terms are not being complied with, or they suspect fraud. If you think a transaction has been failed by the merchant inadvertently, please submit a ticket with all the necessary details of the transaction. We will contact the merchant and ask them to investigate this.
Paid: We have paid you the cashback through BACS.
We offer cashback on the purchases you make from the online shops while linked through our site. Therefore, you cannot make use of our links externally and still expect to get cashback.
You should complete the transaction wholly online, while you are logged into our site. If you finish the purchase over phone or by any other means, the retailer may not be able to track the transaction or even decline it.
To make sure you get the cashback, please login to our site and utilise our links to finish the purchase. We will not be able to do much about their decisions regarding cashback payments if you do not finish the transaction while logged on to our site.
Once you are logged into our site, your links to our partner online shops are automatically tracked, so much so you are guaranteed of earning your cashback on your purchases by just logging in and you do not require any special settings or software on your system for this. However, some basic steps make tracking better if followed.
1. It is compulsory, before you proceed to make any purchase that you must log in to Buy4schools and click on the links for the retailers from our site.
2. You must enable cookies on your browser; it is nothing too difficult to do so. Most computers and internet browsers under normal settings do have them enabled.
3. Do remember our site is a cashback site, therefore, in order to ensure that your purchase is fully tracked you must finish your whole transaction in the same session. If you make the purchase over the phone or from other websites, you will not receive any cash back from Buy4schools.
4. In the event of your shopping on other online site, you must ensure that clear all cookies before you log on to our site. In some rare cases, it is also possible that other websites can plant cookies or software on your computer, which may lead to the commission being paid to them instead! (We have had only one or two incidents of these so far amidst tens of thousands of transactions).
To enable cookies, Please visit http://www.google.com/cookies.html and follow the instructions given.
You need not be too troubled if your cashback credit does not show up in your account within a day or two. Once a purchase is made through our site the partner merchants will need to process the payment of commissions and then forward the commission to us. Then on, within a day or two we will credit your account. Due to the reason that some of the merchants process transactions in batches and report to us only a few times a month, there may be some delay in tracking the payment, so please wait for a week or two before deciding that the transaction has not been tracked.
If your account is not updated within this period and the cash back does not show, please send us a support ticket and furnish us with as much details as you can about the purchase (order number, date, membership number, merchant etc.) which will help our merchants to investigate quickly. We will chase up with the retailer concerned and do our best to get your cashback as soon as possible for the purchase.
All you have to do is to send us your support request. Along with the support request, you have to furnish necessary details regarding your purchases such as order number, date, membership number, merchant etc. We will do the rest and keep you updated on the progress.
You will understand that the purchase details are essential to track the purchase with the merchant concerned to investigate why the cashback was credited. It is not easy for the merchants to investigate or track your transaction. Therefore, they will not take any query from us, if we do not furnish the details of the purchase.
At least you need the minimum requisites like name of the merchant, product you bought, price, date and order number/membership number/reference number. Please keep the receipt or some paperwork safely or search for the email they sent you when you purchased the product with the details. Sometimes, it will help call the merchant and ask for the details, in case, you have lost it.
There are thousands of transactions happening everyday without any problems. We update your daily account everyday as soon as we hear from the merchant. If the cashback is not displaying in your account even after your purchase, it means that either it is still too early or the merchant has not reported to us yet. Sometimes, very rarely the transaction may not be tracked.
The general reasons for purchases not being tracked are
1. Our member was not logged into our site. He should not have used our links to make purchases.
2. A member may not have cookies enabled in their browser or have some other security settings averting the tracking.
3. The retailers will not pay if the purchase was completed over the phone, or by any other means, apart from utilising our links. The purchase should be made entirely online.
4. If merchants have issues with tracking links, we provide them with all the necessary details of the order they will verify it and generally pay the cashback. Under these circumstances, we will do our best to help you in getting your cashback by getting in touch with the relevant merchants.
Yes, as you will understand it is impossible to chase up any missing transactions that are too old. Therefore, if you have any missing transaction you must report this to us within 2 months. Simply submit a ticket to our helpdesk with all the relevant details of your transaction and we will chase it up with the merchant concerned.
Cashback is paid to the members through BACS on or around the 7th of the succeeding month.
To become eligible to get Cashback you must first accrue the threshold limit of £10; but if you prefer to accumulate it further and wait for it to grow, you can do so, provided you update your profile accordingly.
In order to make it easy for us to serve you better, we have set £10 as the threshold limit. This enables us to offer you the best deals, reduce administration costs, promotions, marketing costs etc.
Once you start making your purchases through our site, you will experience our true service in the form of your Cashback getting bigger and bigger. Moreover, you will realize that this limit is easily attainable.
Payments are sent through BACS. You also need to fill in your valid UK address so we may prevent people from outside the UK (mis)using our site.
All you have to do is just submit a ticket at our Help Desk. We will respond to your query within 24 hours on weekdays.
Anyone who is a UK resident and over the age of 18 is entitled to become a member on Buy4schools.
Our site is entirely safe and protected .You need not have any concerns about this. As a policy, we do not seek information about your credit cards or bank accounts. For whatever information you do furnish us with, we make sure that the data is handled carefully and will never be shared with anybody except under orders in accordance with the law.
We are registered under the Data Protection Act 1998 and are bound by its regulations.
Please note that this site is open only for people residing in the UK who are aged over 18. Only one account is allowed per person. We are provided with reliable security systems for detecting misuse or suspicious activities. If we track anyone violating our Terms and Conditions in anyway, the account of the member will be suspended without any prior notice and no cashback will be paid to them.
In most cases, our systems will automatically suspend members, found to be involved in suspicious activities. Please understand that we have to do this to protect the interest of our members and our online merchant partners.
We will never seek any of your credit card or financial details, since we do not take any payments from you. You only need to provide your valid address to ensure you reside in UK. We will however require your BACS details to pay you. After clicking on the retailer's link on our site, you will leave our site and make your purchase directly from the retailer.
You pay the same price either way, but if you use a special offer or voucher code on our website for purchasing goods, you may find it cheaper than buying directly from the retailers. Retailers never ask you to pay additional charges for shopping through our site. We give you the latest offers, exclusive deals, and fabulous Discount voucher codes besides EXTRA cashback.
We will negotiate more cashback and cheaper deals with the retailers, as the purchasing power of our members grow. You do the same online shopping, but with same or even better prices along with EXTRA cashback. It is as simple as that!
There is absolutely NO catch! Online retailers pay commissions to websites for introducing customers. We share the commission with you, paying it in the form of cashback, instead of keeping it with ourselves as most websites and shopping directories do. Remember that you will not be charged either by us or by the retailer for using the links on our site.
Certainly, our site is completely free to use and we will not charge you directly or indirectly, anytime for using our website.
- Login our site using your registered email id and password.
- To locate the merchant you are looking for you can search using the category listing on the left side or use the search box on the top right corner.
- Click on the merchant link to! go directly to the merchant's website and shop with them in the usual manner
- In 2 to 7 days, your cashback will be showing as "Pending" in your Buy4schools account.
- In two to three months the transaction will be validated and reported to us as by the merchant, and we will update your account accordingly.
- You can login our site and click on "My Account" to see the amount and status of your cashback.
- Once your approved funds cross your threshold limit, you will be paid by BACS. Please ensure that your profile page is filled in correctly and completely. Simply login and click on "My Profile" link to update your details.
We offer cashback on every purchase you make depending upon the amount of commission paid to us by the online shop that are linked to our site. Registration with our site is completely free. Initially, you will have to earn a minimum cashback amount of £10, which is the threshold limit, after which, the accumulated cashback will be sent to you through BACS.
Cashback will show in your account, once the transaction is tracked by the online merchant from whom the purchase was made. Reporting normally takes 24 hours to a week or two, because the merchants have their own time scales for processing the transactions and releasing the commission due to us. Some merchants process transactions in batches and report only once or twice a month, but it is quite unusual.
You can be assured that there will be little or no delay on our part in crediting your cashback no sooner we receive the commission from the online seller.
There is no minimum purchase that you need to make for receiving cashback. Cashback is credited to your account right from your first purchase onwards. However, you need to have a minimum account balance of £10.00 as cashback, before it is paid to you.
This happens when our partner retailers have analyzed the sale/lead and decided not to pay us. This could be due to one of the following reasons:
1. You have returned the goods or cancelled the services during the returns period.
2. Your transaction was not fully completed online.
3. Your credit/debit card was rejected.
4. You did not satisfy the conditions of the merchant.
Only a few merchants have conditions. In these cases, we will describe the merchant description or put on view a "conditions" link where you can look at the conditions attached to the offer. Please note that gaming and betting merchants can decline or fail transactions if they suspect the user has registered only to get the cashback and not play on their site.
There is no limitation for the cashback you receive. The more you purchase through our site, the more you can earn. Sometimes you can also earn cashback by going in free trials, applying for quotations etc.
Of course, we provide you the link and the codes on Buy4schools. Make use of the code as instructed. Please note that the merchants may not track transactions to Buy4schools, and therefore you may not be paid if you utilise any discount or voucher codes found elsewhere.
Initially, after you make a purchase, our partner merchants confirm the transaction to us as "pending" and this will be the initial status of all the purchases until the merchant confirms it. The retailers wait until the returns period etc., make sure the purchase wasn't returned, payment cleared etc., and then report to us as "approved" which we will update in your account.
Sometimes the transactions "fail" or "reverse" when people fail applications or return their products etc. Under these circumstances, we will also fail or reverse the cash back in your account. Please note our thousands of partner retailers have various timescales to approve transactions. Retailers normally take between a few days to about 6 weeks or so in some cases to approve transactions. We make very little delays from our end in reporting.
If your transaction shows as "failed" or "reversed" it means the merchant has failed the transaction and refused to pay the commission. The common reasons for the merchants to fail transactions are:
1.Your order was not valid (i.e., invalid or incorrect details etc.)
2. The goods were returned/order cancelled during the returns period.
3. You did not adhere to the terms of the offer or purchase. Please read the conditions and the merchant description carefully on our site before making a purchase.
This is very vital for free offers and gambling merchants. Rarely, merchants fail transactions if they suspect fraud or misuse. If you suspect that the merchant may have failed the transaction inadvertently (which is quite rare), please submit a support ticket to us with the required details of the purchase (order number/reference number/membership number, date, product, price etc.) explaining why it should not have been failed.
We will immediately get in touch with the merchant and request them to probe, but please note that the merchant’s decision would be final under any circumstance.
It is highly unlikely that the cashback shown is incorrect, except that the merchant has furnished necessary details of the purchase. Some merchants will only pay commission on purchase amounts excluding VAT and some may not take in postage or delivery costs in the amount they use to calculate the commission on. In order to pacify the customer some merchants will shell out a token amount such as 1 pound although this is uncommon.
It is also possible that Merchants can also change their commission rates from time to time. We update our site as soon as we are informed of these changes, so please check our site for the latest cashback rates, we display from time to time.
In accordance with the changing market conditions, Merchants can also change their cashback rate and terms & conditions. As they change their terms & conditions, we update those on our site accordingly. Always check out the latest terms on our cashback shopping directory for clarifications.
Please ensure you are using the same email id and password that you used to register with us. You will also need to make sure the spelling and format are correct. For security reasons all non UK IPs are blocked from accessing our site, therefor you will not be able to login to our site from outside the UK.
Please make sure that cookies are enabled on your browser and try to login again. If you still cannot login please go to www.buy4schools.co.uk and type your email id in the space provided (under Login help) then click on "Send me a New Password". Your password will be reset and sent immediately to your inbox. If your new password is not in your inbox please check your Spam folder. To avoid your mails from being spam blocked please add our email id support@buy4schools.co.uk to your approved list of contacts. This will ensure that our emails reach your inbox.
Please submit a support ticket and we will manually reset your password and email it to you.