Affiliate Disclosure
Last updated June 2026 · placeholder entity name pending owner's business registration
Setup Gear Guide may earn a commission when you buy through some outbound links, at no extra cost to you. Here is exactly how that works and the wall between it and our recommendations.
The hard rule
Commissions never influence rankings, scores, compatibility results, or recommendations. The scoring and recommendation engines take no affiliate input — by code structure, not just policy. A product that pays nothing outranks a product that pays well whenever the data says it should.
Current status
As of this writing most outbound links are plain retailer links — affiliate programs are still being established. Buttons say 'Check price' and route through our /go redirect either way, which is how we count which retailers people actually use. As programs activate, links flip to affiliate form with no change in what we recommend.
How offers are ordered
Buy boxes sort user-first: best tracked price, with retailer trust as the tiebreaker. Affiliate status is not a sort input.
The public API exposes the same data with explicit affiliate and disclosureRequired flags on every offer, so AI agents can carry the disclosure forward.