Publishing a discount? Know what makes the claim deceptive before you hit publish.
Paste your offer copy. Get a severity-ranked pre-check against the published pricing guides — with the discount math verified against your own was/now numbers — before a claim becomes a complaint.
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Key Takeaways
- Offer copy vs published pricing-guide factors, severity-ranked.
- Actionable fix checklist — never a silent rewrite or auto-publish.
- Honesty: a heuristic pre-check — not a pricing-law certification.
Offer copy first. Pricing-guide factors next.
Decision-support deceptive-pricing ranks — not a certification and not a legal audit.
OfferPrecheck — definition
OfferPrecheck pre-checks promotional price claims against the deceptive-pricing patterns 16 CFR Part 233 describes — former prices, simulated discounts, conditioned "free" offers and unverified urgency — returning a scored, severity-ranked report with concrete edits before a campaign publishes the claim to regulators, platforms and customers alike.
What this is NOT
- Not a pricing-law certification, storefront connector, or approval guarantee.
- Not a price-history verifier — former-price substantiation is an advisory checklist item, never looked up.
- Not a substitute for legal review of FTC, Omnibus or consumer-law obligations.
Controller / Processor — When packs mention privacy roles, we use GDPR Art.4 labels: Controller and Processor (decision-support only).
Promo written. Price claim challenged.
Unsupported former prices
"Was $120" that was never openly offered is the exact pattern 16 CFR 233.1 calls deceptive — and customers screenshot it.
Discounts that fail their own math
A "90% off" claim on prices that compute to 76% is not rounding; it is the simulated-discount pattern 233.2 was written for.
"Free" with hidden cost
Free gifts whose cost rides inside the priced item draw the 233.3 disclosure test — plus the refund requests.
Urgency nobody can substantiate
A countdown that rolls over or a stock count that never decrements reads as a fabricated scarcity claim once a buyer checks.
Paste. Scan. Fix.
Severity-ranked findings from your offer copy against published pricing-guide factors — including real discount math.
Deceptive-pricing findings
Reference-price wording, percent arithmetic, free-offer conditions, urgency claims and context advisories, each with quoted evidence.
Severity ranks
High / medium / low so you fix the complaint-ready claims first.
Fix checklist
Actionable edits — you still own the final copy.
Copy-ready report
Markdown you can paste into a ticket or campaign thread.
Everything you need for an offer pre-check
Built for teams shipping new promos every week.
Claim-wording and discount-math detection
Reference-price wording, percent arithmetic, free-offer conditions, urgency claims and context advisories, each with quoted evidence.
Severity-ranked output
High / medium / low so you fix the complaint-ready claims first.
Fix checklist included
Actionable edits — you still own the final copy.
Copy-ready
Markdown you can paste into a ticket or campaign thread.
From paste to pre-check report in 3 steps
Paste the offer copy
The exact text you plan to publish — plus offer type, market, and the discount % you claim.
Scan
Deterministic engine ranks findings by severity and checks the discount arithmetic.
Review
You edit the copy. OfferPrecheck never rewrites or publishes.
Paste. Scan. Fix.
Severity-ranked findings from your offer copy against published pricing-guide factors — including real discount math.
Unsupported former prices
"Was $120" that was never openly offered is the exact pattern 16 CFR 233.1 calls deceptive — and customers screenshot it.
Deceptive-pricing findings — Reference-price wording, percent arithmetic, free-offer conditions, urgency claims and context advisories, each with quoted evidence.
Pricing-guide factors · deterministic math · human review
Paste your offer copy with offer type and market. Deterministic severity ranks first, discount math computed from your own numbers. Optional AI never invents findings. You review before publishing.
Read the methodology →Paste-first offer reports — not a compliance suite
| # | OfferPrecheck | Manual FTC-guide reading / banned-word lists |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Copy vs pricing factors in one paste | Hours reading guide explainers |
| 2 | Severity-ranked fix list with real math | Scattered checklist notes or a public complaint |
| 3 | Self-serve from $19/mo | Enterprise compliance suites |
| 4 | Decision-support only | May over-promise approval guarantees |
Methodology before you ship
AI draft · human review · decision-support only.
Read methodology →Open studioTry it on this page
or generate below.
Saved history
Built for promo marketers and e-commerce teams
Capability cards describe the studio. No fabricated customer counts.
A pasted offer becomes ranked findings against published pricing-guide factors.
Offer type and market tune how aggressively claim and disclosure risks escalate.
Every finding ships a suggested edit — you still decide.
Simple plans that scale
All paid plans include
- Offer pre-check studio
- Severity-ranked export
- Rule-based checks (decision-support)
- Email support on paid plans — no hidden add-ons for core studio use
- Limited AI checks: 3/day · 15/mo (fair use)
- Studio demo (no extra LLM fee)
- AI included: 40 runs/day · 300/mo (fair use)
- No separate ChatGPT subscription required
- Priority support · 2 months free with yearly
Feature comparison
What each plan includes — quotas reflect the enforced fair use limits.
| Dimension | Free | Pro | Enterprise |
|---|---|---|---|
| Usage | |||
| AI runs | 3/day · 15/mo | 40/day · 300/mo | 200/day · 3,000/mo |
| Report export | Watermarked | Clean export | Clean export |
| Audit log | Not included | ✓ Included | ✓ Included |
| Product | |||
| Discount math verified: parse was/now prices (US & EU formats) and compare claimed % against the real % | ✓ Included | ✓ Included | ✓ Included |
| Former-price claim scan: "was", "compare at", "list price", "regularly" wording per 16 CFR 233.1 themes | ✓ Included | ✓ Included | ✓ Included |
| "Free" offer checks: purchase conditions and cost-distribution patterns per 233.3 themes | ✓ Included | ✓ Included | ✓ Included |
| Urgency & scarcity claims: countdown wording and stock counts treated as factual promises | ✓ Included | ✓ Included | ✓ Included |
| BYOK (your LLM key) | Not included | Not included | ✓ |
| SSO | Not included | Not included | Roadmap |
| Support & compliance | |||
| Support | Community | Priority | Custom SLA |
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Your questions, answered
What does OfferPrecheck check?
A scored, severity-ranked pre-check of one pasted offer text against the deceptive-pricing patterns the FTC guides (16 CFR Part 233) describe — decision-support drafts, never a legal opinion.
Does a good score mean my discount is legal?
No. Lawfulness depends on your actual price history, terms and jurisdiction — whether a "was" price was genuinely offered lives in your sales records, outside what any text checker can see. OfferPrecheck only flags the published factors present in the copy you paste.
Can I cancel anytime?
Yes. Self-serve plans cancel anytime; access continues until period end.
Do I need a credit card to start?
No. Start with email signup or Demo mode in the studio, then upgrade when ready.
Do I need my own ChatGPT / OpenAI subscription?
No for Free/Pro. AI runs are included in your plan (fair use) via our platform key. Enterprise can optionally bring your own OpenAI key (BYOK) — configure it at /settings (key stays server-side only).
What is Fair Use / what if I hit the AI limit?
Free includes 3 AI checks/day and 15/month. Pro includes 40/day and 300/month. At the fair-use limit the studio returns a clear QUOTA_EXCEEDED notice with the reset time — the Rule-based demo keeps working; Enterprise BYOK covers heavier volume.
Is checkout secure?
Payments are processed by Waffo Pancake (merchant of record).
What happens after I pay?
You receive access confirmation; fulfillment is tracked via webhook + order logs.
Quick answers
- Ranked findings per run
- Pricing-guide aware
- Former-price and "free" disclosure gaps flagged
- Copy-ready
- Pricing starts at $0 (Free).
More questions
What inputs?
Offer copy (the exact published text), offer type, destination market, an optional claimed discount %, and strictness.
Pricing-law guarantee?
No. Heuristic pre-check — not a pricing-law certification and not legal advice.
What comes back?
Ranked findings with quoted evidence, the real % off computed from your own prices, and a fix checklist — always review.
Demo or live?
Demo is labelled; live wording needs a configured AI key.
Who is it for?
Founders, e-commerce and growth teams publishing discounts, free offers and flash sales.
Primary sources?
Your pasted offer copy and the published FTC pricing guides (16 CFR Part 233, Part 251).
Does it verify my price history?
No — deliberately not. It never connects to your store or ads account; prior-price substantiation appears as an advisory checklist item only.
Does it set or optimize prices?
No. Pricing strategy is a different tool class; OfferPrecheck judges only the claim you paste.
How it compares
| Dimension | Manual | OfferPrecheck |
|---|---|---|
| Speed | Hours reading FTC-guide explainers | Seconds per offer draft |
| Consistency | Varies by reviewer memory | Same pricing-guide factors every run |
| Output | Free-form checklist notes | Structured pre-check report |
| Best for | Final sign-off | Pre-flight QA per campaign draft |
When not to use: Skip it when you need a lawyer’s opinion on FTC/Omnibus/ACL exposure, verification that a "was" price was genuinely offered, platform ad-policy approval, or automated publishing. This only pre-checks the offer copy you paste.
- Where price claims turn deceptive — The four places promo copy quietly trips the published pricing guides.
- Pricing checks that people do not learn to ignore — What to block on, what to warn on, and what to leave alone.
- What an offer pre-check cannot see — The honest boundary between risky copy and a challenged campaign.
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