Affiliate Disclosure

Last updated: September 19, 2026

In plain English: some of the links on CorpsXtra are affiliate links. If you click one and buy something, we may earn a small commission — at no additional cost to you. That’s part of how this site pays its bills. It does not change our recommendations, and it does not buy favorable coverage.

What is an affiliate link?

An affiliate link is a URL that carries a tracking code identifying CorpsXtra as the referring publisher. When you click one of these links and complete a qualifying purchase, the merchant pays us a commission — typically a percentage of the sale, occasionally a flat fee. You pay the same price you would have paid if you had navigated to the merchant directly. Our commission comes out of the merchant’s marketing budget, not your wallet.

We do not use link cloaking services that hide the true destination of an outbound link. When you hover over a link on CorpsXtra, the URL you see in your browser’s status bar is the actual URL the link goes to, with the tracking parameter appended. This is a deliberate policy choice on our part, both because it’s better for you as a reader and because it’s required by several of the affiliate networks we work with.

Which links are affiliate links?

Any outbound link to a software vendor, tool, service, or product we review, compare, or recommend may be an affiliate link. Not every outbound link is — some point to primary sources, official documentation, independent research, government filings, or third-party analyses that we cite for context or evidence.

When we recommend a specific tool or service, we prefer to link to it through our affiliate relationship if one exists, because the commission funds the time we spend testing, writing, and updating the site. If we recommend something we do not have an affiliate relationship with, we still link to it directly — because the recommendation is the point, not the payout.

Affiliate programs we participate in

Programs we participate in include but are not limited to: Amazon Associates, Impact, PartnerStack, ShareASale, Rakuten Advertising, CJ Affiliate (formerly Commission Junction), FlexOffers, Awin, and direct affiliate programs run by the companies we cover. This list changes over time; we add new programs as we find products worth recommending and drop old ones when the products no longer meet our editorial standard or the merchant changes its terms in ways we don’t agree with.

Amazon Associates specifically requires the following statement, so here it is: “As an Amazon Associate, CorpsXtra earns from qualifying purchases.”

Editorial independence

Our editorial standards come before affiliate revenue. Concretely, this means:

• We do not accept payment in exchange for a positive review or higher ranking on a list.
• Vendors do not preview our reviews before publication and cannot request edits after publication except to correct factual errors we then verify ourselves.
• We disclose material relationships — paid tests, free access, sponsored posts — at the top of any post where they exist, in language a reasonable reader would understand.
• We are willing to give a product a negative review even when it pays us a commission. If a tool has real weaknesses, we say so. Readers trust us to be straight, and that trust is worth more than any single commission.
• Where a category has clearly better and worse options, we say which is better and why — even when the “worse” option pays a higher commission.

Sponsored content

Sponsored posts — posts a vendor has paid for — are marked “Sponsored” at the top of the page, in a colored label that’s hard to miss. Sponsored posts are held to the same factual standards as editorial posts (we won’t print things we know to be false), but they are advertising. They exist in a separate lane from our editorial coverage of the same vendor, and we make that separation as obvious as we can.

We currently accept a small number of sponsored posts per quarter, and we turn down more than we accept. If you’re a vendor interested in sponsoring, see our Contact page.

How we test products before recommending them

For reviews and comparisons, we sign up for a free trial or paid account, use the tool for real work, and take notes. We prefer to test tools on real problems rather than synthetic benchmarks, because a real problem is what our readers will use the tool for. Where we have not personally used a product, we say so — usually because the tool is priced above what a small publisher can justify, in which case we make our best assessment from documentation, customer interviews, and public reviews, and flag that we haven’t used it ourselves.

FTC compliance

This site follows the U.S. Federal Trade Commission’s Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising (16 CFR Part 255), which govern how publishers must disclose material connections to advertisers. Our goal is to make our commercial relationships clear, conspicuous, and unavoidable — hence the small disclosure box that sits at the top of every post that contains affiliate links, and this comprehensive page.

If any of this is unclear, or you spot a link you think should have been disclosed and wasn’t, email felix@corpsxtra.com. We take reader complaints about disclosure seriously and will fix them fast.

Cookies from affiliate networks

Affiliate links use cookies to attribute purchases to the referring publisher. When you click an affiliate link on our site, the merchant or their affiliate network sets a cookie in your browser that identifies CorpsXtra as the referrer. If you complete a purchase within the cookie’s attribution window (typically 24 hours to 30 days depending on the program), we get credit for the referral. Clearing your cookies before completing a purchase will remove that attribution and we will not earn a commission. This does not affect the price you pay.

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Thank you

If you buy something through a link on this site, thank you. That money is what makes it possible for us to keep writing without ads, paywalls, or engagement-optimized garbage.