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Affiliate Disclosure

Current commercial relationships of MSP Shortlist, how compensated links would be labeled, and how editorial facts stay separate from compensation.

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Current state

This publication currently uses ordinary, untracked links to official provider websites. There are no compensated links, referral tracking codes or paid placements on this site. The directory is alphabetical, not a performance or payment ranking.

This page changes before anything else does: if a commercial relationship is ever approved, this disclosure is updated first, and the affected links receive visible labels at the same time.

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How the site may earn in the future

The models under consideration are referral and affiliate arrangements, where the site would receive compensation if a reader follows a labeled link to a provider and becomes a customer. Any such arrangement would be supported by written terms before the first compensated link goes live - no compensated claim or link is activated from an oral understanding.

What compensation would never change

  • Facts - provider records are built from sourced evidence with checked dates; compensation does not edit a record, remove an unknown or soften a limitation.
  • Inclusion and order - directory inclusion is editorial and order is alphabetical; neither is for sale.
  • Comparisons and fit guidance - verdict logic names its evidence rows; a commercial relationship with one side changes the label on a link, not the content of a row.
  • Unmonetized providers - providers with no commercial relationship receive identical factual treatment, identical directory presence and working official links. A provider does not need a relationship with this site to be listed, compared or linked.

The separation is structural: editorial records and commercial relationships are maintained in separate registers, and the research methodology applies the same rules to both groups.

If and when a relationship is approved: the affected link is marked as compensated, a visible disclosure appears near the first commercial link on the page, and the link carries the rel="sponsored nofollow" attribute. Neutral official links to the same provider remain available alongside any compensated path. Pages without compensated links carry no commercial labels - the current ordinary links are not compensated paths on this site.

About "at no cost to you" claims

This site makes no claim about whether following an affiliate link affects the price you pay unless and until that is verified in the specific program's written terms. If you see no such statement next to a link, do not assume either way - ask the provider.

Questions

To ask about a commercial relationship, or to report a link that appears mislabeled, use the contact page. Factual corrections follow the correction route described there.