Bringing Transparency To Online Shopping

We recognize that not every product has a US made alternative or that sometimes the US made alternatives can be prohibitively expensive. We don’t think that this should keep you from being able to help out your community, so when you activate Pay It Forward while shopping on one of our partner sites, a percentage of your total order value will be donated to a charity helping your community at no additional cost to you.

In order for Pay It Forward to work, we need to check if the website you’re visiting is in our partner network. We’re not storing or tracking this data, so rest assured that your data is not at risk.

We do not gather any personally identifiable information to distribute to any third parties. We simply receive data around what’s being searched anonymously so we can further build our product and features. Please see our Privacy Policy for more.

When shopping with Pay It Forward, we take a percentage of the revenue we earn from your order and donate it to the charity you have selected.

We pick charities based on our mission which is to grow local manufacturing and communities which helps add jobs, offset carbon emissions, better our socioeconomic conditions, and infrastructure - all of which help create a better future for generations to come.

We take a variety of approaches and do not simply rely on what a product label or profile tells us. Our processes are built to due diligence various databases and sources in order to verify that claims are correct. We use a mix of technological and manual research to build our proprietary product catalogue from which our users see locally made products.