Our standards
How we research and test
What goes into a mashjoy.com guide or review before you read it, and how we tell you what kind of review it is.
Every guide on mashjoy.com starts with the decision you're trying to make, not with a product. We work out what each option costs you, what it asks of you, and who it suits, and we date everything a price or a term depends on.
Building our hands-on testing
We're adding hands-on testing for the products our readers ask about most, starting with card machines and the software that runs alongside them. As products go through it, their reviews gain our own photos and findings, and the date of each update.
How scores work
Where a review gives a score out of five, it reflects how well the product does its job for the business we recommend it to, weighed on cost, terms, reliability and support. Scores are ours. No company pays for one, sees one before it goes live, or can ask for one to change.