# Criteria — the fields recorded for every program

**Canonical HTML page:** https://trtbuyerguide.com/criteria
**Markdown endpoint:** https://trtbuyerguide.com/criteria.md
**Edition check date:** 2026-10-23 (late re-checks 2026-10-26)
**Publisher:** Open Water RX LLC

Eight fields are recorded for every company in this edition. Each one is read from a dated provider page, and each one says what it does not mean.

## 1. Charge as billed
The dollar figure the provider publishes, recorded at the standing rate a buyer pays once any introductory offer has expired. A supply period is never read as a billing period.
**Does not mean:** that it is a monthly price, or that it is the whole bill.

## 2. Billing interval
The period the charge recurs on: calendar month, a fixed number of days, or not established. Where the page does not state it, the field stays blank and no monthly equivalent is derived.
**Does not mean:** that an unstated interval is monthly.

## 3. Derived monthly equivalent
Arithmetic performed on the two fields above, and labelled as derived wherever it appears.
**Does not mean:** a quoted rate. It is not reported as the provider's price.

## 4. Membership or separate fee
A second recurring fee billed alongside the medication charge, kept as its own field rather than blended into one number.
**Does not mean:** that the membership fee is optional, or that its billing period is monthly.

## 5. First payment
A one-off charge taken before the recurring one: labs, a consultation, an intake exam, or an introductory start.
**Does not mean:** the price of treatment.

## 6. Commitment
The initial term a buyer is held to, exactly as the provider publishes it, recorded beside the cancellation and refund terms read on the same date.
**Does not mean:** month-to-month when the page is silent. Silence is recorded as not established.

## 7. Domain status
Whether the company's domain was read: verified, likely, or unresolved. No record carries an outbound link to a domain that was not confirmed.
**Does not mean:** that the record is complete, or that a price exists.

## 8. Evidence and check date
Every field points at the URL it was read from, with the date it was read. Rows that could not be tied to a provider page are recorded as conflicting or not established.
**Does not mean:** that a third-party listing can stand in for a provider page.

## How a blank is treated

A blank is a finding. It is never reported as zero, never as free, never as an estimate, and never filled from another program's number. These factual criteria do not calculate a score. Publisher scores and positions are chosen separately and may be influenced by compensation, advertising relationships and publisher ownership. Paid placement is labeled "Sponsored" beside the score; a promotional score is not a clinical rating or a computed measure of value.

## What is deliberately not recorded

- A prepaid multi-month discount treated as a monthly rate.
- A first-month discount, start-now promotion or half-price introductory month.
- A manufacturer list price used as a program price.
- A company-wide subscriber count read as a number of testosterone patients.
- A traffic figure presented as a testosterone-specific audience.
- An estimated price, an invented average, or the midpoint of a published range.