PayPal Honey Extension: Coupons, Rewards and Price Tracking

Honey is one of the best-known shopping extensions. Owned by PayPal, it tries promo codes for you at checkout and pays rewards at participating stores. Before installing it, it helps to understand both what it does and how it makes money.

What Honey does

• Coupon search at checkout: On supported sites, Honey looks for digital coupons and promo codes and applies them to your cart with one click.
• Rewards: At participating stores you can earn rewards on purchases.
• Droplist: Add an item and Honey tracks its price, emailing you if it detects a drop.
• Amazon seller comparison: Honey compares sellers for the same product, taking shipping and your Prime status into account, with price history tools.

How it is funded

Honey’s store listing says merchants may pay it affiliate commissions when you shop, and that it shares those commissions with users as rewards. In other words, the extension earns money when it is involved in a purchase. Using it means agreeing to Honey’s terms at joinhoney.com.

Data the listing discloses

The Chrome Web Store privacy section says Honey handles personally identifiable information, financial and payment information, location, web history, user activity and website content. The listing also notes that it uses Google Analytics for usage statistics. Read the privacy policy if any of this matters to you.

Installing it

1. Click Download to open Honey on the Chrome Web Store.
2. Add it to Chrome and sign in or create a Honey account if you want rewards.
3. At checkout on a supported store, open Honey to look for codes.

For pure price history on Amazon, Keepa is an alternative; for cash back, see Rakuten.