We earn commissions. Here is exactly how it works — and why it does not affect what we recommend.
SoftFolioz earns affiliate commissions when you click our links and make a purchase. This is how we fund our independent operation. These commissions never influence our rankings, scores, or verdicts. A tool we earn nothing from regularly outranks tools we earn from.
An affiliate link is a tracking link that tells a vendor you came from SoftFolioz. When you make a purchase through that link, the vendor pays us a commission — typically a percentage of the sale or a flat fee. This costs you nothing extra. The price you pay is the same whether you use our link or navigate directly to the vendor's website.
Affiliate commissions are the primary way independent review publications like SoftFolioz fund their operations without charging readers or accepting sponsored content. We prefer this model because it aligns our incentives with yours: we earn more when we send you to good products that you actually buy and keep.
We do not give preferential treatment to products we earn affiliate commissions from. A tool that pays us a higher commission does not rank higher because of it. Our editorial process evaluates tools on their actual merits — pricing, features, usability, reliability, and value — not on the size of the commission we earn.
We disclose at the article level via our standard disclosure statement, which appears on every review and comparison article that contains affiliate links. The disclosure reads:
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No. We review software based on reader demand, category importance, and our own editorial judgement. Vendors cannot pay to be included in a comparison, pay to be excluded from one, or pay to change our verdict.
No. Commission rates are not a factor in how we score or rank products. Our editorial process evaluates tools on their actual merits — pricing, features, usability, reliability, and value.
We disclose at the article level via our standard disclosure statement, which appears on every review and comparison article that contains affiliate links. If you prefer not to use our affiliate links, you can always navigate directly to the vendor's website.
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