Good Faith Mark

A public record · as of

Do they pay?

Every “top affiliate programs” list ranks by commission rate. None of them answer the question an affiliate actually has: will this program pay me, on time, as promised.

Good Faith Mark is a dated record of exactly that, and of every change a program makes to its terms, from the day we first saw it.

286 tracked programs: 169 with terms on file, 117 with a source page only, 97 changed since first reading.
169 terms on file117 source page only97 changed since first reading

The registry in figures

Latest term changes

Programs changing their own terms only. Values we recorded for the first time are on each program’s page, not here.

All 114 changes

How a program is verified

Four tiers, each earned from what affiliates report and what we can check. A program starts at the bottom and moves up only on evidence.

Right now every program is on the first rung. That is the honest state of a registry this young, and it is published rather than dressed up.

  1. Connected

    A read-only platform connection confirms the payout history.

    0
  2. Verified

    Three or more affiliates showed a payout record that matched their report. Read by a machine, then deleted.

    0
  3. Reported

    Three or more affiliates report being paid. Not independently checked.

    0
  4. Unverified

    Public terms only. No payout reports yet.

    286

The rule

Paying does not move a program up this ladder. At any price.

The whole registry stays public and free to cite. What is paid for is a listing and a badge, never the verdict. The limits on what money buys are published on the pricing page so that if they ever change, the change is on record.