Affiliate Disclosure
FreelanceToolkit UK contains affiliate links. When you click through and sign up or buy from a partner, we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. This page explains exactly how that works, which partners we have, and how we keep editorial independence.
What an affiliate link is
An affiliate link includes a tracking parameter that tells the partner provider that the visit came from FreelanceToolkit UK. If you subsequently sign up or pay them, we receive a small commission. The price you pay is identical to what you'd pay if you went direct — partners don't charge more for affiliate-routed customers.
Where you'll see affiliate links
Most prominently in our "Best of" comparison pages and provider review pages, embedded as recommendation rows clearly styled as affiliate placements. Less prominently in body-copy mentions of providers we're affiliated with. Every page that contains affiliate links displays a banner at the top and bottom labelled "Affiliate disclosure".
Our current active partners
Emma (UK budgeting app), Your Company Formations (UK Ltd formation), Dext (UK receipt scanning), Fiverr (freelance marketplace), UKHost4U (UK web hosting), Hive (productivity / lightweight CRM), Process Street (workflow software), Instantly (cold email platform), RocketReach (B2B contact data), Instarem (UK international payments). Each partner is selected because it fits real UK freelance use cases, not because of commission rate.
How affiliate revenue affects editorial
It doesn't change which providers we recommend or how we describe them. Where we recommend a provider, it's because we believe they're the best fit for the use case in question — and we say honestly when they're not the best. We routinely recommend non-affiliated providers (e.g. Notion, Trello, Hiscox, PolicyBee, FreeAgent direct, Wise, Mettle) where they're the right answer. See editorial policy for our full editorial standards.
What we won't do
Take payment for ranking. Sell editorial control over recommendations. Hide affiliate disclosure. Recommend providers we wouldn't use ourselves. Write commission-driven "best of" lists with fabricated rankings. If you ever spot one of these patterns, please contact us — it's almost certainly an editorial mistake we want to fix.
Cookies and tracking
Affiliate links use cookies or click-tracking IDs that identify FreelanceToolkit UK as the source of the visit. We don't have access to your personal sign-up data — the partner provider sees that, not us. We see only aggregate click counts and (when commissions are paid) attribution that a sign-up came from our site. See our privacy policy for the full picture on data.
Your choice
If you'd prefer not to use our affiliate links, you can go direct to any provider mentioned on this site. The recommendation stands either way.
Related editorial / EEAT pages:
- About — author bio
- Editorial Policy — accuracy and corrections
- Affiliate Disclosure — how affiliate links work here
- How We Test Tools — our methodology
- Sources & Methodology — where the facts come from
- Contact — feedback, corrections, partnership enquiries