How we make money · Sinstegi

The three streams

Affiliate links

Expat and travel health insurance, eSIMs, ferry and flight booking, airport transfers, currency transfer and coworking. If you buy through one of these links we may be paid a commission, at no extra cost to you. Insurance is the strongest fit because several Greek residence permits legally require cover from an authorised provider — which means we would be writing about it regardless.

Paid introductions

We introduce readers to vetted Greek lawyers, accountants and relocation agents, and we are paid for those introductions. Our vetting standard is published and every card in the directory links to it. The moment we consider this most valuable to a reader — the tax regime election with its filing deadline — is also the moment it is most valuable to us, which is exactly why the disclosure has to be prominent rather than tucked away.

Paid directory listings

Professionals and international schools can pay a flat annual fee to be listed. Paid listings are visually marked as sponsored and are never blended into editorial rankings.

What payment never buys

A change to what we write. If a route is a bad fit for someone, the page says so whether or not there is a monetised link on it.
Position. Paid placement changes appearance and disclosure, never order. Rankings are editorial.
Removal of a disqualifier. The "who this is wrong for" block on every route page is mandatory and the build fails without it.
Silence about a complaint. We have a stated process for removing a professional from the directory after a substantiated complaint, and paying us does not suspend it.

How the disclosure works

Any page carrying a monetised link is marked as such in its own metadata, which automatically renders a disclosure above the first such link. The build fails if a page is marked monetised and the disclosure does not render. It is not something an author can forget.

What we have decided not to do

Display advertising. It would erode the trust the whole model depends on. A reference site that people consult under stress cannot also be covered in ad units. We would revisit it only at traffic levels we do not have, and probably not then.

Selling anything we also assess. We do not process visa applications, we do not act as a relocation agent, and we do not take a share of a property transaction. Being outside those transactions is what lets us publish the disqualifiers.

If you are a professional reading this

The streams above describe how this looks from a reader's side. If you are a Greek translator, lawyer, accountant, relocation agent, mover or insurance broker and you want to be on the receiving end of an introduction, here is how a partnership would work — including the parts that are less attractive, and an honest account of how little traffic there is so far.

Why this page exists

Most information about moving to Greece is written to sell a service and does not say so. Being explicit about how we are paid is the minimum price of asking you to trust the rest of the site. If you think a page reads as though it were written for the commission, tell us — that is a bug and we will fix it.

Read the editorial policy for how we verify.