Affiliate disclosure

What affiliate links are

When you click a link on Stackable to a retailer or cashback portal and complete a purchase or signup, the destination company sometimes pays us a small commission as a finder's fee. The commission rate varies by retailer and is paid by the retailer's marketing budget, it does not come out of your pocket, and it does not change the price you pay.

Affiliate commissions are a standard, publicly-offered business model used by most product-recommendation publications. We disclose our use of them because U.S. Federal Trade Commission endorsement rules require it, and because we think readers deserve to understand the financial incentives behind anything they read.

Which links earn us a commission

Not all outbound links on Stackable are affiliate links. Specifically:

• Outbound links to retailers (Away, Rimowa, Dyson, etc.) are usually affiliate-tracked when we have a relationship with that retailer's affiliate program (often via Impact, CJ Affiliate, Awin, ShareASale, or Skimlinks). Some retailers we cover don't run affiliate programs accessible to us; outbound links to those retailers are not commission-earning.
• Outbound links to cashback portals (Rakuten, TopCashback, Active Junky) are typically referral links that earn us a one-time signup bonus or small ongoing share. They do not reduce your cashback rate.
• Outbound links to credit cards are sometimes affiliate-tracked. Credit card recommendations on Stackable are made based on our editorial judgment of best-fit, not based on commission size.
• Outbound links to Reddit threads, news articles, brand press kits, and reviews are never affiliate-tracked. They're editorial citations.

You can usually tell which links are affiliate-tracked by hovering over them, affiliate links typically route through impact.com, cj.com, rakuten.com, or similar tracking domains before landing at the destination. Every affiliate or referral link on this site carries a rel="sponsored" attribute.

How this affects our recommendations

Three commitments that shape how we use affiliate revenue:

We recommend the best option, not the most profitable. When the highest-cashback portal for a retailer isn't the one we have the strongest affiliate relationship with, we still recommend the highest-cashback portal. When the best strategy is non-monetized, like "wait for Black Friday" or "buy at the outlet store", we make that recommendation prominently.

Our retailer rankings and coverage are editorially independent. No retailer, brand, or affiliate network can pay to be ranked higher, featured in our hero sections, or added to our coverage list. We choose what to cover based on reader interest and stack quality.

We disclose when two paths exist and one pays us more. If a reasonable case exists for two strategies and one earns us more commission, we say so on the page. The reader gets the math; the reader decides.

Our full editorial standards and verification process are documented in our methodology.

What we do with affiliate revenue

Affiliate commissions cover the operating costs of running Stackable, hosting, email service, research tools, multiple cashback portal accounts for verification, and editorial time. As the site grows, commissions will fund contributing writers and dedicated verification staff under the same editorial standards documented in our methodology.

We do not currently take any other form of monetization (no display ads, no sponsored content, no paid placement, no email list sales, no paid premium tier). If any of these change in the future, we will update this disclosure and prominently announce the change to subscribers before implementing it.

Your data

When you click an affiliate link, the destination retailer and the affiliate network may set cookies on your browser to track the purchase. This is how affiliate attribution works. The information shared with affiliate networks is generally limited to: the fact that you clicked from Stackable, the destination URL, and (after a completed purchase) the order amount on which commission is calculated. Personally identifying information about you is not shared with us by the affiliate networks; we receive aggregate commission reports, not customer data.

Email addresses you give us for alerts are used only to send those alerts. We never sell or share them, and every email has a one-click unsubscribe.

Questions or concerns

If you have questions about a specific affiliate relationship, a link you think should be disclosed differently, or any commercial conflict you've noticed in our coverage:

Last updated: September 14, 2026. This disclosure is reviewed quarterly and updated whenever our affiliate relationships or monetization model materially changes.