Priya Desai

Priya Desai founded Deal Diary and edits everything published on it. She covers cashback apps, shopping portals, price tracking and retailer sale timing, which is to say the tactics for never paying full price on something you were going to buy anyway. She started the site because the genuinely useful money-saving advice was buried under hustle culture and affiliate spam, and someone had to write the version that just tells you the number, including the payout minimum and the hold period.

As the site’s editor she is also the reason for one of its more annoying habits: the payout minimum, the hold period and the exclusion go in the guide next to the advertised rate rather than in a footnote. If the fine print undercuts an offer, it stays in, including when the offer is one we are paid for.

Start with how to stack cashback apps for the single highest-value idea on the site, or how to get money back after you have already paid if you would rather recover money than earn it. She does not cover groceries or meal planning, which are Hannah’s, or coupons and freebies, which are Renee’s.

18 guides on Deal Diary. Every guide is reviewed and edited before it publishes, and our sourcing and corrections standards are set out on the about page.