How we disclose and handle affiliate links

In accordance with the Federal Trade Commission's guidelines on endorsements and testimonials, StackVersus discloses that some of the links on this website are affiliate links. If you click one of these links and subsequently sign up for or purchase the software, StackVersus may earn a commission from the vendor. This comes at no additional cost to you — the price you pay is the same whether or not you use our link.

Which links are affiliate links

Any button or link that routes through stackversus.com/go/[software] is a tracked outbound link and may be an affiliate link, depending on whether that vendor currently has an active affiliate arrangement with us. Where a vendor has no affiliate program, or we have not yet been accepted into one, that same link simply goes to the vendor's official website with no commission attached. We do not distinguish these two cases visually on the page, because it would not change our recommendation either way — see below.

Commissions do not influence our scoring

Every product on StackVersus is scored against the same fixed set of criteria — features present, pricing transparency, free-plan availability, and fit for the scenarios we cover — before any affiliate relationship is considered. Whether a vendor pays us a commission, how large that commission is, and whether a vendor participates in an affiliate program at all have no bearing on which product we recommend as the better fit, the order products appear in, or the language used to describe them. A vendor cannot pay for a better verdict, a higher score, or removal of a negative point.

Our full scoring methodology, including how verdicts are reached and how we prevent commercial relationships from leaking into editorial content, is documented on our editorial guidelines page.

Link attributes

All outbound affiliate links on this site carry rel="sponsored nofollow" attributes, and our /go/ redirect paths are excluded from search engine crawling via robots.txt. This keeps sponsored outbound links clearly marked to search engines, consistent with Google's guidance on qualifying affiliate and sponsored links.

Questions

If you have any questions about this disclosure or a specific link on the site, please reach out through our contact page.