Affiliate Disclosure

What kinds of links could earn a commission

As of October 2026 we have placed no paid links by hand on this site, but Sovrn Commerce (VigLink) may automatically convert some ordinary links into affiliate links that can earn a commission at no extra cost to you, and this never affects our rankings or recommendations. Funeral Cost Analyzer is a one-person educational site. If we add paid links later, the pages that could carry a commercial link are the ones that already discuss a product category: caskets and urns, final-expense insurance, prepaid funeral plans, grief counseling, and occasional estate-planning tools. A link is not a ranking. No company named on the site is a hand-picked partner; Sovrn Commerce is the only affiliate service in use. Every hand-placed tracking link is switched off, so each outbound link is written as an ordinary one and none is marked as sponsored, although Sovrn Commerce may convert some of them automatically. If that changes, the new partner will be named on this page before its link goes live.

How a name gets onto a page

A provider is mentioned because a family is likely to meet that name while shopping: a large retailer, a carrier that advertises burial insurance, a counseling service, a medical-school donation program. The test is whether a reader can act on the paragraph without the link. Prices, when we print them, come from the NFDA 2023 General Price List Study (latest available), the FTC Funeral Rule, a government page, or a figure already tied to a source on that guide. They do not come from an affiliate network's media kit.

We do not sell placements. A company cannot pay to be called "best," to move up a list, or to have a criticism removed. If a contract ever required that, we would not sign it. If commissions ever exist, they would be paid by the advertiser or the network after a purchase or a signup. They would not be added to the price you pay, and they would not be a reason to prefer one funeral home, cemetery, or policy over another.

Commissions do not set the order

Lists such as the casket retailers page and the burial-insurance page are ordered by the question the page is answering: price transparency, what the contract actually pays, financial-strength ratings the carrier already publishes, and whether a family can leave with the General Price List. If we add partners, a partner would not be moved above a company we cannot monetize. If that ever happens by mistake, the correction belongs in the paragraph, and you can write to us from the contact page.

How often this disclosure changes

This page is reviewed when a guide that contains commercial links is edited, and at least when the date under the heading changes. The review on 2026-10-22 checked that the disclosure still matches the way links are marked (rel="sponsored" would be used only if a tracking link were switched on, and none is) and that no guide promises a percent-off we cannot source. It confirmed there are still no partners. Editorial rules for the cost figures themselves are on the editorial standards page.

Advertising is separate. Display ads, including Google AdSense, are sold by the ad network. We do not pick the advertiser on a given page view, and an ad is not an endorsement. The privacy policy explains the cookies those ads use.