Moneyhelpline.com is an independent price comparison service

Price comparison service

On the internet, a price comparison service allows individuals to see different lists of prices for specific products. Most price comparison services do not sell products themselves, but source prices from retailers from whom users can buy...

 which provides consumers with free, impartial advice on a variety of financial products including credit cards, mortgages, loans and a range of insurance

Insurance

In law and economics, insurance is a form of risk management primarily used to hedge against the risk of a contingent, uncertain loss. Insurance is defined as the equitable transfer of the risk of a loss, from one entity to another, in exchange for payment. An insurer is a company selling the...

 types.

Business model

moneyhelpline's comparison services are powered by BeatThatQuote.com

BeatThatQuote.com

BeatThatQuote.com is a British price comparison site specialising in personal finance products.-History:BeatThatQuote.com was launched by John Paleomylites in February 2005 based in London's Kentish Town., by 2006 it was awarded the 'young company of the year' by the CBI/Real Business Growing...

, another price comparison site. moneyhelpline makes profit by earning commission

Commission (remuneration)

The payment of commission as remuneration for services rendered or products sold is a common way to reward sales people. Payments often will be calculated on the basis of a percentage of the goods sold...

 from BeatThatQuote for each customer who takes out a financial product through them, making the service free to the consumer.

Company history

The company was founded in 2002 as Fundraising Innovations Ltd trading as switchandgive.com.

moneyhelpline is one of a group of web properties owned by Fundraising Innovations Ltd, which also includes energyhelpline

Energyhelpline

energyhelpline.com is an independent and accredited energy switching and price comparison service which provides consumers and businesses with impartial, comprehensive advice on energy tariffs. Every year energyhelpline.com switch in excess of 100,000 consumers...

 - comparing gas

Gas

Gas is one of the three classical states of matter . Near absolute zero, a substance exists as a solid. As heat is added to this substance it melts into a liquid at its melting point , boils into a gas at its boiling point, and if heated high enough would enter a plasma state in which the electrons...

 and electricity

Electricity

Electricity is a general term encompassing a variety of phenomena resulting from the presence and flow of electric charge. These include many easily recognizable phenomena, such as lightning, static electricity, and the flow of electrical current in an electrical wire...

 tariffs and heating insurance, greenhelpline - comparing green energy solutions, and firsthelpline - comparing broadband

Broadband

The term broadband refers to a telecommunications signal or device of greater bandwidth, in some sense, than another standard or usual signal or device . Different criteria for "broad" have been applied in different contexts and at different times...

 and home phone

Phone

Within phonetics, a phone is:* a speech sound or gesture considered a physical event without regard to its place in the phonology of a language* a speech segment that possesses distinct physical or perceptual properties...

 services.

Over £100,000 has been donated to charities through switchandgive.com.