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Editorial Policy How every piece gets written, checked and kept current
This page is about the rules we hold to when we write. How we pick a topic, what we do with the numbers, whether the downsides go in, how often things get revisited. Put plainly: it answers "why should I trust you" with a set of habits that don't change from one piece to the next.
Topics: from real questions, not page count
Our topics come from what ordinary people actually search before a trip: "cash or card abroad", "how are overseas ATM fees calculated", "should I let DCC bill me in my home currency". A question earns a piece because it genuinely confuses people or genuinely costs them money, not because it fills another slot on the site. We'd rather publish fewer pieces and make each one actually solve the problem than pad a list with half-baked filler.
Numbers and rules: with a source and a check date
Fees, exchange rates, whether a feature is supported, whether a region is covered, all of it moves fast. What's right today can be wrong tomorrow. So our approach is consistent: facts such as rules, limits, deadlines and tax rates name the organisation and page they come from, and the update note at the end of the piece gives the date we checked. A claim we can't source reliably is cut, not softened with "usually". Numbers used to explain an idea are labelled as examples; they are never a quote and never a promise.
Better still, what we try to give you isn't "a number" but the ability to go check it on the official page yourself: which page to open, which fields to read, which line of small print to watch. That way, even if one of our illustrative figures goes stale, you can still find today's real value on your own.
Honesty: the drawbacks and risks go in
A piece that lists only upsides is usually selling something, not helping you. Our habit is to write the drawbacks, limits and risks alongside the rest: where a method stops being worth it, what extra steps a new path adds, what price swings and regional limits something like a stablecoin carries. You can't really choose until you can see the cost.
Independence: editorial sits apart from the platforms
The site's editorial judgment is independent of any platform mentioned in the text. What ranks first, what gets recommended, whether a drawback is written down, all of it is decided by how useful the content is, not by whether someone is a partner or pays a commission. How the site is funded and where its interests lie is laid out separately in our disclosure. That's a different matter from this editorial line, but both are open to you.
Updates: maintained for real, never cosmetic
Information goes stale, so the content needs upkeep. But we don't do the kind of "change the date, not the content" cosmetic update. An update means we genuinely re-checked and changed something. If you spot anything out of date or wrong, tell us; we'll verify, correct it, and log the change at the bottom of the relevant piece. Fixing what's wrong matters more than pretending it was always right.
Update note: Updated 2026-10-02: the section on numbers and rules now describes giving a source and check date.