Where the money comes from.

How a commission happens.

Some of the buttons on this site, usually labelled "Start free trial" or "Get started" are affiliate links. When you click one, the vendor sets a small tracking cookie. If you go on to subscribe within their tracking window, the vendor pays Claripick a referral fee.

The fee comes out of the vendor's own marketing budget. Your price stays exactly the same as it would be if you typed the URL directly. If anything, you sometimes get a better trial, because the vendor knows where you came from.

What we will not do.

• ◆ Move a score, because a vendor pays better. Every product is held to the same six-category rubric, and the rubric is published.
• ◆ Soften a "not for you if..." section. If a tool is a bad fit for a particular reader, we say so out loud even when that costs us a click.
• ◆ Hide bad reviews. The negative bits go right next to the positive ones, in every review, including the ones that pay us the most.
• ◆ Take vendor edits. We do not pre-share drafts. The vendor sees the page when you do.
• ◆ Run sponsored content disguised as editorial. If we ever publish sponsored content, it will be physically separate, unmissably labelled, and it will not affect any review score.

Who we earn commission from.

We currently have referral arrangements with HubSpot, Salesforce, Pipedrive, Zoho, Monday.com, ClickUp, Asana, ActiveCampaign, Klaviyo, Mailchimp, Intercom, Freshdesk, BambooHR, Gusto, Rippling, QuickBooks, Xero, Jira and Zendesk.

Where we review a product and have no commercial relationship with the vendor and that does happen the review is built the same way as everything else. We are not going to pretend a tool is good or bad based on whether there is a referral fee on the table.

Sponsored content.

We do not currently run sponsored content. If we ever do, it will be marked with a Sponsored badge at the top of the article, sit on a separate URL pattern, and will never appear in a roundup or comparison alongside editorial reviews. Sponsored placement does not buy a higher score on any other page.

FTC compliance.

Claripick complies with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission's guidelines on endorsements and affiliate disclosures. Every page that contains affiliate links carries a clear disclosure, in plain English, before any link is clickable. Where required, individual affiliate links are tagged with rel="sponsored nofollow".