Defence Discount Service

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About this app

The Defence Discount Service app is the official Ministry of Defence discount service for the UK Armed Forces community.

Designed for serving personnel and veterans, the app gives you easy access to thousands of discounts across online retailers and high street brands. Whether you are shopping locally or online, you can quickly find, save and use offers that matter to you.

Save money with discounts for Armed Forces members

As a member of the Defence Discount Service, you can access a wide range of offers including:
• Retail, travel, food and leisure discounts
• Online and in-store offers from trusted brands
• Special promotions, campaigns and limited time deals

Everything is designed to be simple, fast and easy to use.

Key features

• Search
Quickly find offers by keyword, brand or category in one place.

• Near Me
Discover local discounts wherever you are, shown on an interactive map or list view.

• Defence Privilege Card
Apply for your Defence Privilege Card directly in the app. If you already have one, your virtual card is available in-app and accepted by many retailers.

• Ways to save
Stay up to date with featured offers, special campaigns and exclusive deals.

• Browser Extension
Save money when you shop online with the Defence Discount Service Browser Extension, applying discounts at checkout so you never miss a deal.* (*This feature is currently unavailable. The Defence Discount Service app uses the AccessibilityService API to support its Browser Extension feature. The AccessibilityService API is enabled only with the user’s explicit consent and is used solely to detect when online shopping is taking place, allowing the app to show the relevant Defence Discount Service discounts on offer. Video example: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/6CxRJzpfvVY) 

Who can join the Defence Discount Service

You can become a member if you are part of the Defence community, including:
• Serving Armed Forces personnel
• Reserve Forces
• Armed Forces veterans
• Spouses and partners of serving personnel
• MoD civil servants
• Bereaved family members
• War and service widow(er)s
• Cadet Forces aged 16 and over
• NATO forces serving in the UK
• Built for the Armed Forces community

This app has been built with feedback from our members to make it easier to find offers and get the most value from the service. You can report issues or share ideas directly through the app, helping us continue to improve.

If you are part of the Defence community, download the Defence Discount Service app today and start saving.

Defence Discount Service
Supporting the Armed Forces community across the UK.

Ratings and reviews

This app used to be great, but now the functionality is awful. I can't select any offer, half the companies fail to load, I can't get most of the codes to work either. There used to also be a savings section, so you could track what you have saved, completely taken away. I have to go on the website just to be able to use the codes, as that works and I can still navigate the website well, it's just this app that makes the process nearly impossible.

Not as good as the website and buggy! The app hardly functions. It doesn't show the same offers that's ok the website. Keeps showing spring offers in autumn and expired offers. On my Samsung, you can search for offers but clicking on them does nothing. the strange thing is, for 2 years the app worked fine, it's only the last few months there have been issues. I will uninstall the app and just bookmark the website in a web browser. hopefully it gets fixed.

offers are always out of date. Always the same ones for Virgin holidays that expired in April etc. As for searching for local businesses etc it's a waste of time. It's easier just to ask at the till if they do Defence Discount. Edited to add a few more stars after a younger person with more technical savvy than me had a dig around my settings etc and discovered it wasn't being allowed to update by my phone. Things are better now and it's updating as it should.

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