Affiliate Disclosure

ShelfAudit earns commission when a reader follows certain outbound links and later becomes a paying customer. This page says plainly which links those are and what rules we hold ourselves to, because a site about pricing honesty that was vague about its own funding would be difficult to take seriously.

Which links

Any link that goes to /go/ followed by a name is a partner link. They are marked in the page markup as sponsored and are excluded from search-engine crawling. Every other outbound link — Shopify's help centre, its developer documentation, independent rate sheets — is a plain reference and earns us nothing.

What it costs you

Nothing. Commission is paid by the vendor out of its own margin. You pay the same price whether you arrive through a link here, through a search result, or by typing the address yourself.

The rules

• A rating is never adjusted for commercial reasons. The published verdict is the verdict.
• The drawbacks section is written before the pros, and never shortened because a programme is lucrative.
• Where the honest advice is not to buy — Starter below about $1,143 a month in sales, for instance — we say that, in the same page as the link.
• No tracking URL is ever pasted into an article. Links point at a redirect on this domain, so what a link does is always inspectable.
• We do not accept payment for reviews, for placement, or for a rating.

Why we still run them

Research costs time. Checking a fee schedule against four sources, recomputing crossover points and re-verifying it all when a price moves is the work, and affiliate commission is the least intrusive way we have found to fund it — no advertising, no paywall, no sponsored posts. If that arrangement ever conflicts with telling you the truth about a price, the price wins. That is the whole basis of the Shopify review.