Affiliate disclosure

Mintcanopy may earn a commission if you use a tagged link and later pay the vendor. The score on a review does not move because a link pays, and a page with no paid link says so.

When a link pays

Some links to reviewed products are affiliate links. If you buy or subscribe after using one, the vendor may pay Mintcanopy a commission. The commission is a percent of the subscription or a fixed bounty. It is not added to your price. You pay the vendor's posted price. The review does not know, at the moment you read it, whether you will click.

What the payment cannot do

It cannot change a score. It cannot delete the paragraph about who should skip the product. It cannot move a product above another in its category. It cannot choose the example numbers in a fee walk. Those numbers are the arithmetic of the percent on the screen. A vendor who asks for a draft is told no. A vendor who asks for a factual correction, with the fee screen to prove it, is edited and the date of the edit is left on the page.

Pages that do not pay

A review with no affiliate program, or a review where we declined the link, is still scored. The absence of a commission is not a penalty. If you cannot tell whether a specific link is tagged, treat it as tagged and read the fee table anyway. The table is the part that has to be true without us.

A factual correction is not a negotiation

If the percent on the page is stale, send the screen. We change the number and leave the date. If you want the score higher because you pay a commission, the answer is no, and it is the same no when you do not pay a commission. The order of cards is the order of the checks. A bounty does not buy the top. A review with no program is scored anyway.

Mintcanopy does not add a markup to your price. You pay the vendor what the vendor charges. The commission, if any, comes out of their side.

A $49 subscription, in dollars

Suppose Folio Lens pays a 20 percent commission on the first year of a $49 monthly plan. The reader pays $49 a month, which is $588 in the year. The commission is $117.60, paid by the vendor, not added to the reader's invoice. The 4.5 on the review was written from Item 1A and the source line. It would stay if the commission were zero. It would stay if the commission were twice that. What it cannot do is move Folio Lens above a product that had a better source line, and it cannot delete the paraphrase about "material." Mintcanopy does not add a markup. If you cannot find the sentence that survives without the $117.60, the page is an ad.

Some reviews have no program. Quarry may or may not pay on a given month. The 4.1 does not wait on that answer. Absence of a bounty is not a penalty, and a bounty is not a bonus. When a link is tagged, the review says so. When you cannot tell, treat it as tagged and read the fee table anyway.

What we would print if the rate changed

The worked example is a 20 percent commission on the first year of $49 a month, which is $117.60 on $588. If the vendor's program is 10 percent, the commission is $58.80 and the reader's price is still $588. If the program is a flat $40 bounty, the reader's price is still $588. None of those figures moves the 4.5. Mintcanopy will change the example if we cite a live rate, and we will date the change. We will not change the score in the same edit. A reader should be able to see that the two edits are different events. The disclosure is the rate. The review is the filing.

The reader's invoice does not change

At $49 a month the reader pays $588 in a year whether the commission is 20 percent ($117.60), 10 percent ($58.80), or a flat bounty. Mintcanopy does not add a line to the reader's bill. The 4.5 on Folio Lens was the source line and the verb, and it is edited only when those are wrong. If we cite a live commission rate and the rate changes, the disclosure changes and the score does not change in the same sentence. Treat a link as tagged when you cannot tell. Then read the fee table anyway.

Separate the two edits

If a commission rate changes, the disclosure changes. The score changes only when the screen changes. A reader should be able to tell those edits apart. At $49 a month the reader still pays $588 in a year if the bounty is $40 or if the cut is 20 percent of that $588, which is $117.60. Mintcanopy does not add either figure to your invoice. Treat an unclear link as tagged, then read the table.

Your price, their bounty

Folio Lens at $49 a month is $588 for the year you pay the vendor. A 20 percent commission is $117.60 of their revenue, not a surcharge. A 10 percent commission is $58.80, same invoice. A flat bounty, say $40, is still their cost. Mintcanopy can update which of those numbers the disclosure uses, and that edit is not allowed to drag the 4.5 with it. The 4.5 moves if Item 1A is misquoted or if the export drops the source line. When you cannot see whether a button is tagged, assume it is, and then ignore it long enough to read the fee. The absence of a program on Quarry or on a bot is not a reason for a lower score and not a reason for a higher one.