Methodology
How Financial Bonuses compares offer listings.
Financial Bonuses compares financial sign-up offers using repeatable fields: source terms, bonus value, requirements, fees, timing, eligibility, market availability, and risk notes.
Source Standard
Listings are based on provider offer pages, provider terms, account disclosures, and approved partner program rules when a link is monetized. Each offer should include a source URL, terms URL, review date, expiration date or review-by date, and a correction path.
Comparison Fields
We compare bonus amount, estimated dollar value, funding or spend requirement, monthly or annual fee, payout timing, account type, eligible market, geographic restrictions, direct deposit rules, transfer or new-money rules, clawback or closure notes, and credit or account-screening risk where applicable.
Estimated Value
Estimated net value starts with the public bonus value and subtracts listed annual card fees when the offer is a credit card. Tiered, variable, percentage-match, or APY-boost offers are labeled as variable or tiered rather than treated as a fixed guaranteed return.
Market Separation
Offers are assigned to a market using country codes. Current public listings are U.S. offers. Canada and United Kingdom offers must be added with country-specific source URLs, eligibility terms, approval scope, and currency assumptions before they appear under those market filters.
Compensation
Compensation may affect which offers are included or placed on the site, but monetized links must still show the core requirement, fee, timing, eligibility, and source context. We also list unpaid offers when they are useful for comparison.
Quality Controls
The production build validates required pages, metadata, sitemap coverage, blocked launch text, active offer freshness, source URLs, expiration dates, country fields, and affiliate-link approval evidence before deployment. Automated monitoring creates a review queue; it does not publish changed financial terms automatically.
External Standards Considered
Our operating standards are informed by Google Search guidance on spam and thin affiliate content, FTC endorsement and disclosure guidance, and affiliate-network brand-safety expectations. These references shape how we treat original summaries, disclosures, source links, and traffic-source restrictions.
References: Google Search spam policies, FTC Endorsement Guides FAQ, FTC disclosure guidance, and CJ network quality and brand protection.
