Methodology
Last reviewed · Single-operator project · About Voygoing
We want every Voygoing decision to be auditable. This page is the explicit version of "how we work" — the rules we follow when we build a tool, write a guide, or rank a result. If anything we publish contradicts this page, the page wins and the publication is the bug.
1. What we build (and what we deliberately don't)
We only build comparison tools and short guides where the answer depends on user inputs (dates, age, country, route) and can't be reduced to a one-sentence general fact. We don't publish information articles that a general AI assistant can answer in a sentence — those tend to be either redundant or AI-hallucination-prone, and either way they don't help you decide. The full editorial line is on the About page.
2. How the car rental comparison is built
- Inventory source. The car rental tool queries DiscoverCars' aggregated inventory, which spans 500+ suppliers worldwide — including the major chains (Hertz, Avis, Europcar, Sixt, Enterprise) and significant local operators.
- What gets shown. Indicative offers for the pick-up location, dates, driver age, and transmission you enter, with a deep link to the live, bookable DiscoverCars result.
- What we don't pretend. The on-page sample prices are indicative — they exist so you can see the shape of the market before clicking through. The price you book is the live one on DiscoverCars at the moment of booking. We never claim our tool is the live source.
3. How results are ranked
The ranking respects three rules, in this order:
- Your filter wins. If you sort by price, the cheapest comes first; if you require free cancellation, only those offers appear.
- Free cancellation breaks ties by default. Where price is equal, an offer with free cancellation ranks above one without — because for most travelers that's the actually-cheaper offer once risk is priced in.
- Commission is invisible to the ranking algorithm. The tool doesn't read the affiliate split. There is no "boost this supplier" branch in the code, no hand-tuned weights, no commercial override. If we ever introduced one, it would belong here, on this page, in plain English.
This is the single load-bearing claim of the site. If commission ever reordered results, our entire premise collapses — which is why the rule is written into the code path and the disclosure, not just this page. See the affiliate disclosure for the commercial side.
4. What data we trust, and what we don't
- Time-sensitive official rules (visa requirements, driving licence categories, insurance mandates, road regulations): we link to the official issuer. We do not reproduce these values in our pages, because they change and our copy would go stale silently. If a guide cites a rule, the cited source is the authority.
- Prices, surcharges, drop-off fees: we describe the shape of the cost (percentage premium, common ranges, what makes them swing) but we don't quote a single euro figure as fact unless we sourced it for that page. Your live quote is the only number that's true for your dates.
- Card/loyalty benefits (e.g. lounge access via credit cards): we mark these as region-specific and time-sensitive, and we point to the issuer's terms — those vary by country and change without notice.
5. How we keep things current
- Every guide and tool page carries a visible "last reviewed" date. The date reflects an actual review, not a script refresh.
- Material edits (rule change, supplier policy change, ranking-logic change) get a line in the public data updates log.
- If we can't verify a claim on review, we either link the official source or strike the claim. We don't ship hedged content to keep a page alive.
6. What happens if we get it wrong
User-reported errors are the highest-priority maintenance item on the site — higher than new publishing. The contact page exists for this. If a correction is material we log it on data updates with the date and what changed; if it changes a previously-recommended path, we add a note at the top of the affected page.
7. How we make money, and why that doesn't change anything above
Some outbound links to booking partners (DiscoverCars and others) are affiliate links — if you book through them we earn a commission at no extra cost to you. That commission funds the site. It does not, and structurally cannot, change ranking — see rule 3. Full breakdown on the affiliate disclosure page.
8. Who is "we"
Voygoing is a single-operator project. "Voygoing Editorial" is the byline because there is one editor making every call; using a single byline makes it clear that no copy is ghost-written by a different voice or generated and shipped without a human reading it end-to-end. The About page explains who and why.
Spotted a gap or a rule that should be tighter? Tell us — methodology changes belong in public.