Commercial disclosure
By Kai Greenspan, Founding Editor
DebtTechIndex is a free-to-list directory whose business is qualified buyer inquiries. Vendors pay nothing to be listed or corrected. Revenue comes from vendor memberships that route qualified inquiries to the member, from positions labeled Sponsored on the Top 10 guides, and from labeled advertising. Payment never changes organic order, comparison values, source labeling, verification status, or editorial conclusions.
Any vendor of collections or receivables technology can be listed at no cost and can claim its page. Corrections need a source, not a payment. This is the whole of the relationship for a vendor that never pays.
A buyer who requests information about a product does so through this site. The inquiry is checked and passed to the vendor. Membership, when it opens, is the paid route to receiving those inquiries, with a setup fee and a monthly fee. Whether a per-inquiry fee applies will be stated here before any member pays it. No membership exists at relaunch.
A member may buy a position labeled Sponsored on a Top 10 guide. It sits above the list in its own container, is marked with the word Sponsored before its content, carries a sponsored link attribute, and is never numbered. It never moves the member’s product into the top ten or changes its position there.
Any advertisement is identified as Advertisement and is separate from records, lists, and comparison tables.
From the first full month with a measured number, a monthly results page reports what the site did: records, vendors, checks, corrections, inquiries, vendors claimed, and traffic. Numbers that do not exist are shown as not measured.
Payment cannot change organic ordering, comparison values, source labeling, verification status, a US-market grade, or an editorial conclusion, and cannot remove an ownership or product-status note. The methodology is published so that this can be checked.