Where our money comes from, and whether we earn commission

How is this site funded?

Scorura is funded by commission. When you press “Visit site” and sign up to a service, that company pays us a commission. This is our planned source of income, and it goes in the first line because a reader deserves to know it before reading a single score.

The commission comes from the company, not from you: you pay nothing extra for arriving through us. We run no advertising, sell no space inside the ranking, and take no payment for publishing.

Have any commissions started yet?

Not yet. There is no commission agreement in place with any service on this site, and no company has paid us for being listed or for where it sits.

The relationship table on the disclosure page says so service by service, generated from the same record that decides who pays us, so it cannot lag a day behind the truth.

What do we refuse?

Commission is the only thing we accept from a company. Here is what we refuse, written down before anyone offers it:

• Money for a review, for a position in the ranking, or for a higher score.
• Sponsored articles or sponsored content inside reviews, lists or guides.
• A free account or special treatment in exchange for coverage.
• Removing, softening or delaying a review for money.
• A paid link inside written text, or licensing a badge for a fee.
• A larger commission in exchange for moving a service up the ranking.

What changes the day the first agreement starts?

Nothing tempts us today, because nobody pays us yet. The test starts the day somebody does, so the commitments are written down before that happens rather than after:

• We name the service and the date the agreement started in the relationship table on the disclosure page, and the change appears in the changelog the same day.
• Rank still comes from the score, and the score from the published criteria alone. Any position we place ourselves carries a label saying so on its card.
• Commissions in this market differ widely from one company to the next, and that gap, not the existence of a commission, is where bias enters. So no figure a company can move by raising its commission enters the score.
• We do not revisit a score because of an agreement, and we do not delay publishing a weakness for one.
• If a company asks us to change a score, a rank or a sentence to keep an agreement, we publish the request and end the agreement.

When does a visit button appear?

Commission can only come from a service that has a visit button, and a visit button only appears under a rule. It is the same rule published on the disclosure and methodology pages:

• Every service on the list carries a visit link, whatever its score.
• The link goes to the company’s own page, with no referral identifier while no commission agreement exists.
• The score decides nobody’s link; it tells you what we found on their pages.

What can commission not change?

The score, the rank, whether a visit button appears, and the weakness stated on every entry: commission moves none of them.

The visit button follows a published rule, which means a service that pays us can end up with no button at all if it does not clear the threshold. The rule costs us money by construction.

Why write all this down?

Because a promise is worth nothing in a market where everyone claims independence. The only difference a reader can check is that the rule was written before the case, the figure carries its source, and the change is logged with its date.

And because independent publishing funded by commission is a hard business: people who tried it honestly before us ended up behind sites that pay for things we will not pay for. This may not work. Any change to how we are funded will be written on this page and in the changelog with its date, rather than happening quietly.

Where are the full details?

And if you want the detail company by company — who has a button, who we have a commercial relationship with, and how the link works technically — the disclosure page lays it out in tables generated from the configuration itself:

Link disclosure: what happens when you press “Visit site”