Standards

Editorial standards.

A shortlist is only useful if you can trust how it was made. These are the rules every guide on this site follows.

Independence

• Editorial rankings cannot be bought, and are not part of any sponsorship.
• Guides include companies we have no relationship with.
• Every entry states who it is not a good fit for.
• Each guide shows when it was last tested.

How we make money

The Shortlisted is free to read. We earn money from clearly labelled sponsored placements, where a company pays to appear in a marked slot alongside a guide. We do not sell editorial positions, reviews or ratings.

What Sponsored means

A sponsored entry is marked Sponsored wherever it appears. Its links are tagged as paid for search engines. It sits outside the editorial ranking, and the editorial text about that company is written the same way as every other entry.

Where we have any other commercial relationship with a company in a guide, the entry says so.

Corrections

If something in a guide is wrong, such as a price, a feature or a description, tell us through the company form and choose "Correction". We check it, and if it is wrong, we fix it and note the change.