Author: Richard Yang

Founded in 2002 by Craig Cassatta, As you can tell from the logo and web design, Mr.Rebates is an early player in the market that offered consumers ways to save money via cash back while shopping online. In the years followed they have added thousands of stores, supplied various of deals and coupons, added new innovative shopping features and awarded millions of dollars in cash back to their savvy members.

Giving Assistant, as literally, is not the typical cash back portal as other players, this portal gives you an opportunity to automatically donate any cash back you earned for charity purpose. Founded in 2013, Giving Assistant has raised nearly 6 million dollars donation for good purpose.

BeFrugal.com, literally a cash back site that helps you with a frugal life started in 2009, no BeFrugal supports over 5,000 stores which including 500 largest stores in U.S. BeFrugal boosts that they gives out all the purchasing commission to the customer thanks to their good relationship building with retailers and they provides the highest cash back rate compared with other competitors.

TopCashback was founded in 2005 in United Kingdom and expanded their business to United States in 2011. They support cash back retailers majorly from U.K (considering the good relationship they’d built in U.K market), but they also support the major retailers in U.S.
As stated in their brand, they tend to offer higher cash back rate compared to other competitors in the market, it is worthy to check around from time to time on TopCashBack, frequent campaigns offers double or triple cash back rates which helps you to save a bunch!

Rakuten previously known as ebates.com, it is one of the largest affiliate marketing players in the cashback industry.
Rakuten allows you to earn 1% to 40% cash back from shopping online at a variety of retailers. The rewards are known as Big Fat Payments, which are paid out quarterly by check or PayPal.