Affiliate Disclosure
Last updated: June 2026
Our relationship with BizBee Funding
Read this before our recommendations: BizBee Funding (bizbeefunding.com) is our affiliated funding service — a related company, not an arm’s-length advertiser. It is the service behind our primary “Get Funded Today” button and our #1 recommendation for getting matched with a lender.
That is a material relationship, and we disclose it everywhere BizBee Funding appears. It is different from the third-party affiliate commissions described elsewhere on this site: with an outside lender we earn a referral fee and nothing more; BizBee Funding is part of the same family. Our editorial reviews and our third-party lender scoring still follow the published method on How We Evaluate Lenders — no outside lender can buy a place in them — but BizBee Funding’s #1 placement reflects that ownership as well as fit, so weigh it accordingly and always compare your actual offers before you commit.
The short version
BizBee is free to read because it’s reader-supported. Some of the links on this site are affiliate links. If you click one and go on to apply for or open a product with a lender or marketplace, we may be paid a commission. It costs you nothing extra, and the price or terms you get are the same as if you’d gone to the lender directly.
That’s the whole deal. The longer version below exists because, in a money topic like business financing, you deserve to know exactly how we’re paid and what we do — and don’t do — because of it.
What is an affiliate link?
An affiliate link is a tracked link. When you use it to reach a lender or a lending marketplace and then take an action they pay for — submitting an application, getting matched to lenders, or getting funded — the company credits us for the referral and pays us a fee.
On this site, affiliate links usually look like a button or a link that says something like “See if you may qualify →” or “Get matched →”, and they’re marked (sponsored). Behind the scenes they route through a /go/... address so we can count the click. They always carry a rel="sponsored" tag, which is the honest, search-engine-readable way of saying “this is a paid relationship.”
How being paid does — and doesn’t — affect what you read
This is the part that matters, so we’ll be blunt about it.
What affiliate income does NOT do
- It does not set our rankings. We do not rank lenders by who pays the most. Our order is set by the criteria on our How We Evaluate Lenders page, and our Editorial Standards keep the wall between “who pays us” and “what we recommend” in place.
- It does not cost you anything. You pay the same with our link as without it.
- It does not mean we recommend everyone who pays us. There are products — merchant cash advances are the clearest example — that we warn readers about even when an affiliate relationship is available. If something is expensive or built to trip you up, we say so.
- It does not buy a good review. A paying partner can get a bad or cautious review on this site. The relationship doesn’t change the verdict.
What affiliate income DOES do
- It pays for the site — the research, the writing, the hosting — so the content can stay free to you.
- It shapes which companies we cover. We generally write about lenders that have an affiliate program, simply because that’s how a free site like this survives. Where a major lender we think you should know about doesn’t pay us, we’ll still mention it and tell you we don’t earn from it.
Who we may have affiliate relationships with
We may earn commissions from lending marketplaces and individual lenders, including (but not limited to) Lendio, Bluevine, OnDeck, Fundbox, and Fora Financial. We may add or remove partners over time, so treat this as a representative list, not a fixed one.*
We may also, in the future, earn revenue from display advertising. When we do, ads will be labeled as ads and kept visually separate from our editorial content.*
* Representative and forward-looking; we confirm each named program is active before publishing it and remove any that aren’t.
What we are (and aren’t)
BizBee is an independent information and comparison website. We are not a lender, a broker, or a financial advisor. We don’t make loans, we don’t make credit decisions, and we don’t take a cut of your loan. When you apply, you’re dealing directly with the lender or marketplace and their terms — not ours.
Nothing on this site is financial, legal, or tax advice. Rates, fees, and approval criteria change constantly and vary by your business and creditworthiness; always confirm the current terms on the lender’s own site before you apply.
How your information is handled
If you click through to a partner and choose to apply, you share your information with them, under their privacy policy and terms — not ours. We don’t sell your loan application. For how we handle the limited information you give us directly (like a contact form), see our Privacy Policy.
The standard behind this
This disclosure is here to meet the U.S. Federal Trade Commission’s rules on endorsements and disclosing material connections — and, frankly, because hiding how we make money would undercut the entire point of this site. If you ever think a disclosure on a page is unclear or missing, tell us at our Contact page and we’ll fix it.
Want the plain-English walkthrough?
For the full, plain-English explanation of our whole business model — what we earn, what we’ll never do, and the rule that keeps our recommendations honest — read How We Make Money.
By Marcus Delaney, former commercial loan officer. BizBee is informational and independent. We are not a lender and do not broker loans. Some links on this site are affiliate links — see How We Make Money.