How this site works
What we publish, where it comes from, how it is checked, and what we will not do. If any of this stops being true, this page is wrong and we want to know.
909 products from 634 vendors across 42 categories. 94% of product records were confirmed by opening the vendor's own website rather than taking a search result at its word.
Where the records come from
Every product record began with a researcher opening a page and reading it. Each one stores the URL that was read and the date it was read, and those are shown on the vendor's page. Where something could not be established from a primary source it is left blank rather than filled in. That is why founding years, headcounts and prices are missing on many records: they are not published anywhere we could check.
Each record carries how firmly it was verified:
- Primary — confirmed on the vendor's own website (850 products).
- Secondary — confirmed from a directory, ranking or trade publication (50 products).
- Unverified — a search result we could not confirm (9 products).
What we check, and how often
Every source URL the directory rests on is re-fetched on a schedule. A page that has moved or gone is flagged rather than quietly left in place, because a citation that no longer resolves is not a citation. New vendors found during that sweep are admitted only if the page cited actually names the product; a vendor nobody can find a page for cannot be listed, however plausible it sounds.
The categories are tags, not a hierarchy
A product carries every category that genuinely applies to it. Carrying several is normal rather than a mistake: a front-to-back platform really does belong under reconciliation and treasury and portfolio accounting at once, and a buyer filtering on two of those should find it. Category pages are filtered views over that tag set.
Long-standing and newly arrived, on the same fields
The cost of building serious financial software has fallen, and a wave of newer platforms now competes with systems that have run the industry for decades. Buyers often do not hear about them, because the vendors that get covered are the ones that can afford to be covered.
So we cover both, on identical fields, in one list rather than two. We do not sort suppliers onto a scale of how modern they are. We tried it, and it was the one thing on this site that could not be sourced the way everything else is: placing a company as established or emerging is a verdict inferred from a founding date, not a fact read off a page. What we publish instead is the founding year itself, where the company states it, alongside its owner and where it is based, so a reader can weigh continuity for themselves rather than take our word for it. A three-year-old supplier carries a risk a twenty-year-old one does not, and that judgement belongs to the buyer.
Logos and trade marks
Where a company’s logo appears on this site, we took it from that company’s own website, and we use it to identify the company on its own listing — the same job its name does. The mark belongs to the company, not to us. Showing it does not mean that company endorses this site, is connected with it, or has approved or even read what we have written about it.
Every logo carries the address we took it from and the date, exactly as every other fact on this site does. If you own a mark shown here and would rather we did not show it, write to legal@buysidefintech.com and we will remove it. You do not need to give a reason. Your listing stays, with your name and without your logo.
We do not republish anyone’s brochures or datasheets. Where a document is worth reading we link to it on the owner’s own site, so you get it from them in whatever form they publish it today.
What we do not do
- We do not charge vendors to appear. There is no fee to be listed and no fee to claim a listing. Where any commercial relationship exists it is disclosed under our terms of use.
- Vendors cannot post reviews. Not of their own products and not of a competitor's. They may reply to a review, and their reply is published alongside it.
- We do not remove a profile because a vendor dislikes it. Factual errors are corrected with sources; the profile stays.
- We do not invent a fact to fill a gap. A blank field means we could not verify it, which is information in itself.
The RFP process
Firms can run a request for proposal here. The question bank holds 167 questions in 12 sections, distilled from real institutional RFPs and due diligence questionnaires rather than written from scratch. 74% of them ask for a structured answer — a yes or no, a number, a choice — because those can be placed side by side and compared, and a paragraph cannot.
Scores are computed from the answers and the weights the firm set, and every score is shown with its coverage. A vendor that answered four questions well is never ranked ahead of one that answered forty. Where the arithmetic cannot separate two vendors, we say so rather than declaring a winner.
How to weigh what you read here
Our records tell you what a product is and where that was checked. A practitioner review tells you what it is like to run. They answer different questions and neither replaces the other. Weigh a review by whether the reviewer's firm resembles yours in type and size, which is why every byline carries both.
Corrections
If something here is wrong, write to support@buysidefintech.com with the source that shows it. We would rather be corrected than be wrong, and the correction is free whether or not you are the vendor.