How we make money
Short version: if you sign up for a tool through a link on this site, the vendor usually pays us a referral fee. It costs you nothing extra and it doesn't change the rankings.
The model
TradeStack Review is free to read and reader-supported through affiliate commissions. Several of the vendors we review — including Jobber, Housecall Pro and Workiz — run affiliate programs. When you start a trial or subscribe through one of our links, they pay us a one-time or recurring referral fee. The price you pay is exactly the same as going direct.
What this does and doesn't affect
- It does not affect your price. Our links carry the same pricing as the vendor's own site.
- It does not set the ranking. The order on every page comes from our testing. Some tools we recommend highly — like certain quote-only or enterprise tools — pay us little or nothing.
- We include tools that don't pay us when they're the right answer (ServiceTitan and FieldPulse, for example).
- Affiliate links are marked and we note the relationship on every page that uses them.
What we don't do
We don't take payment to change a ranking, we don't publish vendor-written reviews as our own, and we're not owned by or affiliated with any of the companies we cover. If a tool gets worse, its ranking drops, commission or not.
How affiliate links are marked
Every outbound vendor link that can earn us a fee is tagged rel="sponsored" in the page code, which is the signal search engines ask for, and each roundup carries a disclosure paragraph above the picks and a note beside every affiliate button. Links to our own guides, such as what field service software really costs, earn nothing.
How often we re-check
Pricing is the thing most likely to go stale, so we re-check every vendor's published pricing page monthly and date the check on each page. Quote-only tools stay marked "quote required" until the vendor publishes a number; we do not guess.
Corrections and independence
If you spot an out-of-date price or a claim that does not hold up, use the contact page and we will verify and fix it on the page. Vendors get the same channel and no more: they cannot preview a review, approve a ranking or buy a spot in the roundup. More on who we are and how we test is on the about page.
Found something off?
If a price is out of date or a claim looks wrong, tell us and we'll fix it. Contact us here.