How we make money
The Mandate Monitor is free to read. We earn money when a reader follows some of our links to payroll, accounting, retirement plan or business formation companies and becomes their customer. Those companies pay us a referral fee; the price you pay is the same.
What referral fees never change
- Which companies we list. A payroll system appears for a program only when a help document describes how it handles it: the company’s own, or the state program’s own help center.
- The order. Lists are alphabetical.
- The facts. Rates, dates and requirements come from government sources, whatever any company says.
We always list the free route first, such as registering directly with the state, before any company.
How links are marked
Links that can earn us a fee carry a short note next to them, and are marked for search engines as sponsored. Links to government sites and to companies’ help documents we cite as sources are never paid links.
Newsletter
The deadline alerts are free. If we ever carry a sponsor in an email, it will be labeled as one.