Last updated: August 2026
This page explains how SimpleSaverHome is written, where our numbers come from, how often we go back and check them, and how we make money. We put it up because “trust us” is not a standard, and because a reader deserves to know what a recommendation on this site actually rests on.
Who writes this
Everything here is published by the SimpleSaverHome team under the site’s name rather than an individual byline. We are not licensed financial advisors, accountants, or tax professionals, and we do not present ourselves as any of those. What we do is research household costs carefully, show our sources, and explain the reasoning so you can check it against your own situation. Where a decision genuinely needs a professional — taxes, debt settlement, insurance disputes — we say so instead of guessing. Our full disclaimer covers the legal side of that.
Where our numbers come from
Our standard is that a factual claim traces back to a source you could check yourself. In order of preference, that means government and university publications, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Consumer Reports, established financial publishers such as NerdWallet and Bankrate, and a company’s own published documentation for anything about its own prices or terms.
We do not cite other blogs when a primary source exists. If a figure came from a company’s marketing page rather than its terms, we try to say which.
What we do when we cannot verify something
We leave it out, or we say plainly that we could not confirm it.
That sounds obvious and it is the rule most often broken in this category, because a comparison table with a gap in it looks worse than a comparison table with a guess in it. A recent example: while updating our grocery delivery comparison we wanted a per-order fee for every service without a membership. Two companies do not publish that number in a form we could verify, and the sites that did list it were affiliate pages with no sourcing. So we did not publish the table. We explained instead how those fees actually behave — they move with the delivery window you pick — and pointed at the one company that documents it in writing. That is less tidy and more useful.
How we choose and compare products
We do not test the products we compare, and you should know that before you read one. What we do is narrower, and for most decisions it is more useful.
What we do instead is read what a company publishes about itself — its pricing page, its terms, its help documentation — set that against primary sources on the wider category, and lay the results out in a form you can act on. That will tell you what something costs, what it commits to in writing, and where the real trade-offs sit. It will not tell you whether the substitutions are any good, whether the driver turns up, or what an app is like to live with for a month. Plenty of sites in this category claim all three from a desk. We would rather be narrower and accurate.
What decides whether something belongs in a comparison is whether most families could actually use it. A service running in four metro areas does not belong in a national list presented as a national list, and when we leave something out for that reason, we say so. Nothing is included or ranked because of money — the section below covers that, and today there is no money to cover.
Prices and terms change without notice, so figures carry the date we checked them. If a price in one of our comparisons is more than about ninety days old, treat it as a starting point and confirm it with the company before you buy. We say the same thing inside the articles themselves, which is deliberate: it raises the cost to us of leaving one stale.
If we ever test something hands-on, we will say so plainly — how long we used it, and who paid for it. Until you read that, assume we did not.
How often we check our own work
Every article is reviewed on a ninety-day cycle. We also go back sooner, without waiting for the cycle, when a law or regulation changes, when a price or fee moves materially, when a service we recommended shuts down or changes its terms, or when a better primary source becomes available.
Articles that have been revised carry a “Last updated” date at the top. Articles that have not carry their original publication date. We do not refresh a date without changing the content underneath it.
How we make money, and what it will not buy
Right now, nothing. SimpleSaverHome carries no advertising and no affiliate links today, and you can check that — there is not one paid link in any article on this site. We do intend to add both, because a site that earns nothing does not survive long enough to still be accurate in three years. When that happens you will read it here first, with the date it changed, and it will be disclosed in line with Federal Trade Commission guidance in every article it applies to. The legal detail lives in our disclaimer.
What that money will never buy is placement. No company has paid to appear on this site, to rank higher in a comparison, or to have a criticism removed, and we will not take that arrangement. Where the honest answer is that a product is not worth buying — or that the free version is enough, or that you should keep what you already own — that is the answer we publish, and several articles here do exactly that.
Things we will not do
We will not claim to have tested something we have not tested. We will not invent a personal anecdote to make a point land. We will not state a dollar figure without knowing where it came from, and we will not use a stock phrase like “studies show” in place of naming the study.
If we get something wrong
Tell us. Corrections are the cheapest thing we can do and the most valuable thing you can give us. If a figure on this site is out of date, a link is dead, or a recommendation no longer holds, send it through our contact page and we will check it against the source and fix it. If the correction changes the substance of an article, we update the article and its “Last updated” date rather than quietly editing a sentence.