How it works
The mechanics, not the pitch
Eligibility detection
Perqora doesn't verify enrollment through a third-party service. Instead, when you enter your school or email domain, it matches your domain against a directory of known school email domains (for example a .edu suffix, or a school's specific domain) and shows benefits whose eligibility hints line up. This is a hint for you, not a gate: it narrows the list to what's likely relevant, it doesn't verify your enrollment with the provider. Every benefit still requires you to confirm eligibility on the provider's own site when you claim it.
Benefit types
Every listing carries one of nine benefit types, shown as a small label on the row instead of buried in the description.
- Free
- No cost to you, no student pricing tier involved, just free.
- Discount
- A percentage or flat amount off the regular price, applied at checkout or sign-up.
- Credit
- Account credit toward usage, most common with cloud and infrastructure providers.
- Free trial
- A time-limited free period on a product that is normally paid, converts to paid after.
- Education pricing
- A standing lower price tier for students and educators, not a temporary promotion.
- Student pricing
- A student-specific price, usually verified against a .edu email or student ID.
- University provided
- Provided through your school directly (a site license, a lab account), not the vendor.
- Conditional
- Depends on something beyond just being a student, a major, a course, a region, a cohort.
- Region specific
- Only available in specific countries or regions, check the listing before counting on it.
Verification statuses
A benefit moves through these states over time. Nothing stays "verified" forever by default, confidence decays until someone rechecks it.
Someone confirmed the offer against the provider's live page recently, and it still matches what's listed.
Seeded from a real, known program but not yet independently reconfirmed, or it's been long enough since the last check that it needs a fresh look.
It was verified once, but enough time has passed (or a signal came in) that the terms may no longer be accurate. Check the provider's page before relying on it.
Community submissions
Anyone can submit a benefit they know about. A submission never publishes automatically. It lands in a review queue as "pending," a maintainer checks the provider's page directly, and only then does it either become a listing (starting at "needs review" the same as any seeded benefit) or get rejected or sent back for more information. This is the same gate every benefit in the catalog went through, community-sourced or not.