Commission and ranking belong in different decisions

An affiliate commission is a way a service may be funded. It is not evidence that an offer is relevant, that its variant matches a request or that its total price is better. Letting commission determine result order would answer a commercial question while appearing to answer the shopper’s question.

A meaningful editorial policy therefore needs more than a general promise to be fair. It should identify the boundary: the existence and amount of commission must not determine organic ranking. If paid placements ever exist, they should be clearly distinguishable rather than blended into organic recommendations.

Independence also requires honesty about access. A service cannot compare a catalogue it does not have permission to use, and missing access may limit what it can show. That limitation should be described as a coverage limitation, not disguised as a judgement that an unavailable offer is worse. Permission to access data and the decision to rank an offer are separate matters.

Shoperix currently has no active affiliate relationships. Our policy for the service in development is that commission will never determine organic result order, and future commercial relationships will be disclosed. A prospective source of revenue should not change the question the comparison is trying to answer: which supported option is relevant to the shopper?

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