Affiliate & Advertising Disclosure
Wayfound is operated by Wayfound Social, Inc. The Wayfound app is currently in private beta. This page explains how we may make money from links in the app and how we label it.
1. How booking links work
Wayfound does not sell travel or take payment. When you tap Book, we send you to the provider's own website, pre-filled with your search, and you book directly with them. The provider sets the price, takes your payment and handles any changes or cancellations.
- Hotels. We link to the hotel brand's own website when we know it (for example Hyatt, Marriott, Hilton or IHG), so you can earn points and elite credit. Otherwise we link to Booking.com.
- Flights. We link directly to the airline. Airlines generally pay us nothing for these links.
2. Affiliate commissions
We participate, or plan to participate, in affiliate programs, including through Impact.com, with hotel brands and Booking.com. When you book through one of these links, we may earn a commission from the provider.
- A commission never changes the price you pay. You pay the same as you would going to the provider yourself.
- Commissions do not affect how we sort or rank hotels. Hotel results are sorted by friends who stayed (the default), friends' scores or price, as you choose; commission plays no part. Which site a Book button opens is decided by the rule above (brand site when known, else Booking.com), not by who pays more.
- Prices in Wayfound are shown as "From $X" before taxes. The final price is the one on the provider's site.
Wherever the app shows a booking link to a partner, you'll see this line next to it:
"We may earn a commission from partners. Learn more"
3. Links we don't earn from
- Card perks programs. A hotel page may note that a hotel is part of American Express Fine Hotels + Resorts or Chase's The Edit. We show this for your information only. We earn nothing from it, and we don't link to credit card applications.
- Travel reads. Articles from travel publications (such as The Points Guy or One Mile at a Time) link to the publisher's site. We don't earn from these links, and those publishers may have their own affiliate relationships.
- Places nearby. Reserve, Call and Directions links for restaurants and sights currently earn us nothing. If that changes, those links will carry the same disclosure.
4. Sponsored placements
Wayfound has no paid placements today. We may add them in the future. If we do, every paid placement will be clearly labeled "Sponsored," and none will appear in your friends' posts or feed.
5. Posts by members
Stays, scores and trips you see from other members are their own. Wayfound does not pay members to post or to rate hotels. If a member got a free or discounted stay or another perk in exchange for a post, they should say so clearly in the post.
6. AI suggestions
"Where to next?" uses AI (an Anthropic Claude model) to suggest places and hotels, and those suggestions are labeled "Suggested by Wayfound AI." Partners can't pay to be included.
7. Contact
Questions about this disclosure, or partnership inquiries: legal@wayfoundsocial.com