Wrong commercial classification

Dear?@lastsplash,

Could you please come back about this topic ? Thanks

Hi @admfj03 –

Looking at your site, it appears to use Amazon affiliate links based on what I saw in the HTML and the presence of the amazon-auto-links plugin. Due to this, it does not qualify for a non-commercial plan:

We define a commercial site as one that you aim to make money from. This could be through advertising or affiliate links, selling products or services, soliciting donations or sponsorships, or any other means directly related to any business or organization. If your site has any of these, you will need a paid Jetpack Stats plan.

To use Jetpack Stats, you will need to add a commercial plan.

Dear @lastsplash ,

Thank you. I understand that Jetpack is trying to use some business rules to determine if a website is commercial or not. And I understand that one of these rules is the presence of affiliate links. However, this business rules is not perfect because it is a generalisation and it does not always work.

A commercial website implies a website where its owner gain money. I think we can agree on this. With my website, I am losing money as the cost of hosting is higher than the few income from the affiliate links. I can provide you the invoice of OVH and a printscreen of income from Amazon if you give me your email address. My website is totally non commercial and is for the pleasure to share in a domain that I like (IOT). The affiliate links are there to lower the costs of hosting but, even with them, it is a website that costs me money.

Considering these explanations, I would like to ask you to categorize my website as non commercial because it is really what it is.

Thank

Hi there,

We appreciate this additional insight. At this time, our definition of commercial site means a site that is attempting to earn income in anyway. It is not based on the amount of income, or if that income covers running costs.

This may change in the future, as we continue examining our pricing models, and receiving more feedback from our users.

For now, your options would be to disable to affiliate links, or upgrade to a paid Jetpack Stats plan to continue using them.

Thank you again for taking the time to contact us.