Merchants raise rates for limited periods, often around events like Black Friday, Cyber Monday, or category sale days. The upsized rate applies to purchases made while the promotion is live and tracked through a normal activation.
Upsized rates follow the same lifecycle as regular cashback: tracked, pending, confirmed, withdrawable. The live rate on the merchant page is the authoritative number at any moment.
Related terms
- Cashback rate: The cashback rate is the percentage of the qualifying purchase amount a merchant offers back through ShopBack, and it varies by store and product category.
- Cashback: Cashback is a percentage of a purchase amount returned to the shopper as real money, not points or store credit, paid out after the merchant confirms the order is final.
Back to the glossary or read how cashback works for the full lifecycle.
Sources
This term describes how the ShopBack product itself works, so it is documented against ShopBack's own official properties, checked on 2026-08-12.