How does Picksly work?

Our model, explained simply — updated on 26 September 2026

Picksly is a shopping assistant — a website and a Chrome extension — that suggests the product that fits your Budget, Smart or Premium profile, starting with smartphones, laptops, tablets and smartwatches. This page honestly explains where our data comes from, how we earn money and what that changes in what you see — without jargon.

Where do the products, prices and scores come from?

From visible, verifiable sources — and never from data about you:

• The page you are viewing: the extension reads the title, price and image of the product displayed in your browser (or the results of an Amazon search) — exactly what you already see on screen, nothing more.
• An AI, Google Gemini: it suggests product names that fit your search and your profile. It never supplies a link, a price or a product identifier: each suggestion is then looked up at a real merchant, and without one, no link is made up.
• Real merchants: the eBay Browse API and Imou’s product feed (through Awin), two official integrations, and Amazon’s public pages, visited the way a shopper would to find the actual product and check that its link works.
• Public measurements for tech scores: Geekbench, AnTuTu, DXOMARK and PassMark, completed by GSMArena or Wikipedia spec sheets. The source is shown for each model, and an estimate is always labelled as such — see how these scores are calculated.

There is no hidden database of your purchases and no resale of your browsing history to third parties. See our privacy policy for the full details.

How does Picksly earn money?

When you click a suggested product and buy it, the merchant may pay Picksly a small commission — today through Amazon (in France, the United States, Germany and the United Kingdom), eBay and Imou. Kelkoo Group, for its part, pays Picksly per click (not per purchase) for the offers from other shops it provides, often refurbished, on all our markets except the United States. This is standard affiliate practice, identical to that of countless comparison and review sites. The price you pay is strictly the same, with or without our link. The commission is paid by the merchant out of its own margin, not added to your bill. In Spain, Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium and Portugal, our Amazon links are not affiliated yet: they earn us nothing.

Does affiliation influence what you see?

Yes, partly. Here is exactly where, and where it does not come in:

• The merchants offered. Offers come from a small number of merchants: Amazon everywhere, eBay in most countries, Imou in France, and a few offers from other shops through Kelkoo (outside the United States). In the countries where we are Amazon affiliates, public pages (Top 10, shop, tech pages, searches in our catalogue) only show offers whose link can earn us a commission. A cheaper offer may therefore exist at another merchant without appearing on Picksly.
• The order, at comparable value. The first criterion remains your profile’s: price for Budget, quality for Premium, value for money for Smart. But each offer also receives a bonus based on its source, higher for offers from a merchant API (eBay, Imou) and for Amazon — which are also our affiliate partners. This bonus counts in the offers’ score and breaks ties between offers of similar price or quality; Imou gets an extra bonus on security cameras. When the AI recommends a product, its offer is looked up first on Amazon, then on eBay and at Imou. In the extension, two equivalent listings are ranked in favour of the affiliate link.
• What it does not touch. The measurements behind tech scores (performance, battery, camera, display…) and their sources do not depend on any commission. Budget and Smart scores take price into account, and therefore the offer shown, chosen among the merchants above. And the price you pay is never increased by our link.

How is Picksly different from an extension like Honey?

A fair question, given the sector’s track record. Three concrete differences:

• Picksly never replaces an affiliate link already on the page with its own behind your back — the extension offers explicit alternatives, shown in a clearly identified panel, never a silent replacement of the link of the site you were already visiting.
• The extension’s code can be inspected (manifest, declared permissions) — no hidden permission and no collection beyond what the comparison needs.
• Picksly remains an independent project, with no fundraising and no acquisition by a third party that could change the rules overnight.

Who is behind Picksly?

Picksly is built by an independent developer, as a French micro-business (SIREN 104124904), with no marketing team and no investors. Its only income is the affiliate commissions described above: no advertising, no data resale.

A question that is not answered here?

Write to us at contact@picksly.fr — we answer ourselves, there is no outsourced support.