Cashback

Love is in the air with Valentine's Day looming. You may be amorous newlyweds, or sick of the sight of each other after 30 years of, er, domestic bliss, yet when it comes to MoneySaving it often pays to join forces.

Cashback app Shopitize has suspended a number of its users' accounts as part of a crackdown on potential "fraudulent activity" – leaving many insisting they've been wrongly targeted and one user claiming he's lost access to £600 of cashback intended to fund his family Christmas.

Santander has ditched its cashback-paying 123 credit card for new customers, replacing it with the new lower-paying All in One card.

Users of the Topcashback website have less than two months to swap their earnings for Tesco Clubcard points before the payout option is withdrawn, amid wide-ranging changes to the supermarket's loyalty scheme.

Your purse or wallet is a key to speedily unlocking £100s of savings. So get it out, and open it up. I'm going to show you how to examine all the main items you keep in there, to check they're the right ones and you're correctly tooled up. If not you can likely save £100s or more.

Shoppers using cashback site Quidco to max their gains when buying online can now earn rewards on top of cashback, but you have to actively opt in to get them.

Nationwide debit and credit card customers can now earn between 1% and 35% cashback both in-store and online at selected retailers, bars, restaurants, travel, and accommodation websites.

Shoppers using cashback sites to max their gains when buying online should beware that some retailers offer different cashback rates to different customers on the very same deal.