How we make money

Comparison sites have an obvious conflict of interest: they're paid by the companies they compare. Rather than pretend otherwise, here's exactly how it works here.

Three revenue sources

1. Affiliate commission. When you click through to a provider and buy - an eSIM, an insurance policy, an airport transfer - that provider may pay us a commission. It costs you nothing extra. This is most of our revenue.

2. Advertising. Providers can buy labelled display placements and a labelled featured position at the top of a comparison table. These are always marked, they are added to the table rather than replacing anything, and the rows beneath them keep their own order. Trip.com holds the featured position on our car hire, flights and attractions tables.

3. Nothing else. We don't charge travellers, we don't sell personal information, and we don't run programmatic ad networks that track you around the web.

The rules we've set ourselves

• Every table can be sorted by price. The default order is set out in our terms. Sorting by price ignores it entirely and orders on the number alone.
• We list providers who pay us nothing. Several of the travel money cards we recommend most have no affiliate program.
• Drawbacks get published. If a cheap policy has a high excess or a popular eSIM has poor rural coverage, that goes on the page.
• Sponsored is labelled. Every time, in a way you can actually see, and the label says which kind it is. A row marked Partner is one we earn a commission on - it costs you nothing extra, and it is not why the row is where it is. A row marked Featured partner has paid for the position it is in. Most of what we list pays us nothing at all.
• A featured position is always one row, always at the top, always labelled. There is at most one per table, it is added above the organic results rather than reordering them, and sorting by price moves it like any other row. Trip.com is the only featured partner on the site, on the car hire, flights and attractions tables.
• A paid position is a position, not a verdict. A featured row does not get a better write-up, a higher rating or a drawback left out. Where the cheaper row below it is the better buy, the page says so.
• Your email is not a product. Advertisers get audiences, not addresses.

Where the incentive still bites

Being honest about this: we're paid more when you buy something, which means we have an incentive to frame decisions as purchases. Where the right answer is "you don't need this", we try to say it - an eSIM is worse value than roaming on a three-day trip, and we say that on the eSIM pages. Hold us to it.

Questions about any of this: hello@beforeyoufly.com.au.

Last updated 2026-10-08.