How This Site Makes Money from Sponsors and Affiliate Links
Field Service Software Compare is built to earn money from sponsorship, with one labeled sponsor per category. No vendor pays for inclusion, position or wording, and at launch the site has no sponsors and no affiliate links.
Sponsorship
Each category, such as HVAC software, can have one sponsor. On pages for that category, the sponsor appears in a block labeled “Sponsor”, outside any ranking table and never inside it. When a category has no active sponsor, nothing is shown.
What a sponsor gets
- A block labeled “Sponsor” with its name and a link, on pages for its category.
What a sponsor does not get
- A place in any ranking table because of the sponsorship.
- Any say in which vendors appear or in their order. The order is set by yearly cost, as our methodology explains.
- Any say in what we write about it or any other vendor, or in how a price is labeled.
The code that orders vendors never reads sponsor or affiliate data, and a test checks that changing that data changes neither the order nor the wording of any page. Sponsoring a category describes the offer.
Affiliate links
An affiliate link is a tracked link to a vendor’s site. If you follow one and become a paying customer, the vendor pays a commission to the site.
We have built affiliate links into the site, but every one is switched off. Every link to a vendor’s site is a plain link.
If we switch one on:
- the link is labeled and carries
rel="sponsored", which tells search engines it is a paid link - a disclosure appears on the page above the first such link
- it does not change which vendors appear, their order or what we say about them
What the site does not do
The site has no lead forms, no display advertising and no email sign-up. We count visits with Cloudflare Web Analytics, which does not use cookies.
About us says who owns the site. How we estimate prices explains the rules every estimate follows, sponsor or not.