How we verify pricing

The pages that rank for questions like “how much does Houzz Pro cost” contradict each other, sometimes by hundreds of dollars a month. We publish pricing research anyway — we sell a competing product, and you should read everything here knowing that — so the only way to be trustworthy is to make every number checkable. This page is the process.

The rules

1. Primary sources only.Every competitor price is taken from the vendor's own pricing page — never from an aggregator, a review site or another blog. If the vendor does not publish a number, we say “not published” rather than repeating a second-hand figure.
2. Every price is dated. Each article states the date its prices were fetched, visibly, near the top. An undated price is a rumor.
3. Every source is linked. The pricing pages we fetched are listed at the bottom of each article so you can check them yourself.
4. Automatic re-checking.A weekly automated job re-fetches every claim against the vendor's live page. When a price drifts from what we published, it opens an internal issue and the article gets corrected and re-dated — not silently edited.
5. Honesty about fit. Where a competitor is genuinely the better choice — Studio Designer if you need double-entry accounting, Houzz if you want lead generation — the article says so explicitly.

How the weekly check works

Every number we publish lives in a claims file alongside the exact page it came from. A script fetches each of those vendor pages — identifying itself honestly as NYAProBot with a link back to this site, not disguised as a browser — and asserts that every claim still appears on the live page.

• A claim disappears from the vendor's page: the check fails loudly, the article is corrected, and its verification date moves. Drift is treated as an error, never left standing.
• A page can't be reached: several vendors block automated requests. Those claims are marked unverified for the week and re-checked by hand before we republish a figure — an unreachable page is not treated as a passing check.

What we refuse to publish

• Second-hand tier prices. Aggregators quote specific monthly figures for products whose vendors publish no price at all — Houzz Pro is the clearest example. Where the vendor's own page states no number, we write “not published,” even when a figure would make a tidier table.
• Currency assumptions.Some pricing pages show a bare “$” with no stated currency. We report what the page shows and flag the ambiguity rather than guessing.
• Undated numbers.A price without a verification date is not information — it's a liability with a delay.

Where NYA appears in the research

NYA is included in the comparison tables, priced from the same public pricing page we hold everyone else to. We do not rank ourselves first by default: the articles state plainly where a competitor wins — accounting depth, lead generation, established review bases — and several recommend staying where you are. Treat our inclusion as what it is: a vendor participating in its own comparison, with every number checkable.

Corrections

If you find a price on this site that no longer matches the vendor's own page, tell us and we will fix it and update the verification date. Write to the founder directly — corrections land with the person who wrote the page.

Citing this research

You are welcome to cite any figure from our research with a link to the article. Each article's stated verification date is the date to attribute, and each is written and maintained by a named author — see about NYA.