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How We Score: The Seven Criteria Behind Every Worthorpass Rating
Offer clarity, value, refund terms, pricing honesty, delivery, vendor transparency and claim discipline: what each asks and how the catalog scores.
What are the seven criteria behind a Worthorpass score?
Offer clarity, value for money, refund terms, pricing honesty, delivery and access, vendor transparency and claim discipline. Each is scored from 0 to 10 and the seven are averaged.
| Product | Category | Offer score | Price | Billing | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Contract Aura | Software & Tech | 8.2/10 | $64 | One-time payment, free updates | Worth it |
| 24 Menus from Madeira: A Culinary Journey with 72 Recipes | Cooking | 8.3/10 | EUR 19.80 | One-time payment | Worth it |
| 4-Week Guitar Technique Challenge | Music & Audio | 7.9/10 | $29 | One-time payment, unlimited access | Worth it |
Every review on this site ends in a score out of 10 and one of three verdicts: Worth it, Worth a look or Pass. The score is not a gut feeling. It is the plain average of seven sub-scores, rounded to one decimal, and all seven are shown on the review so that you can weigh them differently from us.
The score rates an offer, not a product. We open the vendor's sales page and the Digistore24 order form the buy button leads to, and we score what they say, charge and promise. We have not bought or used any of the products. The full method sits on the methodology page, and this guide is the short tour.
What does each criterion ask?
Each criterion is one question a buyer would ask before paying. The first four are about the money, the last three about what you receive and who stands behind it.
Offer clarity asks whether the page tells you the real price, the billing cycle and what you receive before you reach the checkout. Value for money asks what you get compared with what similar offers on this site charge, including the monthly cost of anything recurring.
Refund terms asks whether a window is stated, how long it is and whether the page agrees with the order form. Pricing honesty asks whether the advertised price is the price charged: no subscription dressed as a one-off, no invented struck-through price, no extra item already in the cart.
Delivery and access asks how and how fast you get the product and whether access expires. Vendor transparency asks whether you can identify the person or company behind the offer and check their claims. Claim discipline asks whether the promise fits the format delivered: a stated number of recipes can be checked, an outcome nobody can measure cannot.
The seven criteria in one line each
- Offer clarity: do you know what you are buying?
- Value for money: is the price fair next to comparable offers?
- Refund terms: is there a clear refund window?
- Pricing honesty: is the price on the page the price charged?
- Delivery and access: how do you get it, and for how long?
- Vendor transparency: who is behind it?
- Claim discipline: can the promise be true?
How does the catalog score on each criterion?
Unevenly. As of October 2026, the median sub-score is 8.0 for refund terms, pricing honesty and delivery access, but only 4.0 for vendor transparency and 4.5 for value for money.
Medians across all 1920 scored offers show where the marketplace is strong and where it is weak. Payment and delivery are standardised by Digistore24, so almost every offer does well there: only 31 offers score 4 or lower on refund terms, 35 on delivery and access and 143 on pricing honesty.
The weak spots are about the seller and the substance. 1,086 offers score 4 or lower on vendor transparency, 900 on value for money, 825 on claim discipline and 383 on offer clarity. The medians for those last two are 5.0 and 5.5.
That split explains most of the verdicts you see. A buyer rarely gets burned by the checkout. The risk sits in an anonymous seller, a vague description or a promise that cannot be measured.
Offers scoring 4 or lower, out of 1,920 (as of October 2026)
- Vendor transparency: 1,086
- Value for money: 900
- Claim discipline: 825
- Offer clarity: 383
- Pricing honesty: 143
- Delivery and access: 35
- Refund terms: 31
What does a worked example look like?
Contract Aura scores 8.5, 7.5, 8.0, 8.0, 8.5, 8.5 and 8.5 on the seven criteria. Their average is 8.2, so the verdict is Worth it.
The sub-scores are offer clarity 8.5, value for money 7.5, refund terms 8.0, vendor transparency 8.0, pricing honesty 8.5, delivery and access 8.5 and claim discipline 8.5. They add up to 57.5, and 57.5 divided by 7 is 8.2 after rounding. The review explains each number: a named developer, a live demo, a one-time $64 price and a 60-day refund window.
The same arithmetic can hide a weak spot, and that is why the sub-scores matter. 101 Easy Scroll Saw Patterns averages 7.9, yet its value for money is only 5.5 because the buyer is asked to pay $99.99 for printable PDFs. 4-Week Guitar Technique Challenge also averages 7.9, with refund terms of 5.5 because the window is 14 days.
Two offers with the same total can fail in different places. Our guide on comparing two similar offers shows how to use that.
How does the average become a verdict?
An average of 6.5 or more leads to Worth it, 5.0 to 6.4 to Worth a look and below 5.0 to Pass, subject to the floors described below.
The bands are simple and published. In the full catalog, 224 offers are Worth it, 977 are Worth a look and 719 are a Pass, with an average score of 5.9 out of 10. Our guide what our verdicts mean walks through each label.
24 Menus from Madeira averages 8.3 and is Worth it. Living With An English Bull Terrier averages 8.0 and is Worth it too, at a price of $3. Neither needed a floor to reach its label.
Why can a high average still not be Worth it?
Because the verdict has floors the average cannot lift. An offer that does not say what it is, or who sells it, cannot be marked Worth it however well it does on payment and delivery.
Three criteria reward payment and delivery hygiene, which Digistore24 standardises. Alone they add roughly 3.5 points to any offer. So the methodology sets floors: offer clarity of 4 or lower is a Pass, claim discipline of 3 or lower is a Pass, and Worth it needs at least 5 on both offer clarity and vendor transparency.
The effect is large. As of October 2026, 471 offers average 6.5 or more, yet 224 are Worth it. 217 of those 471 score below 5 on vendor transparency. Louis: The Boy From Barrancas averages 7.4 with a vendor transparency of 4, so it stays at Worth a look. Magic Tree Forest Adventure averages 7.1 with the same 4 and is held at Worth a look as well.
The offer-clarity floor works the other way. Thriving in Turbulent Times averages 5.9, which would normally mean Worth a look, but its offer clarity is 3.5 and it is a Pass. The floors change the label, not the number, so you can still see how close an offer came.
What does a score not tell you?
Whether the product works. The score covers the offer as published at the date of our check, not the result of using the product.
We read offers; we do not run them for months. A high claim discipline score means the promise is modest and checkable, not that it came true. Prices, bonuses and refund windows also change after our check, which is why every review carries a verification date.
Absence from this site is not a verdict either. If an offer is not reviewed here, our guide to reading a Digistore24 order form lets you apply the same questions yourself.
How should you use the seven criteria before you buy?
Pick the one or two criteria that matter most to you, read those sub-scores on the review, and treat the total as a starting point.
A quick routine
- Worried about being locked into payments: check pricing honesty and the billing line.
- Worried about wasting money: check value for money and refund terms.
- Worried about who you are paying: check vendor transparency.
- Worried the promise is hype: check claim discipline.
- Then read the date of the check, and keep your order confirmation.
A short routine keeps this practical. Decide what your main fear is, then go straight to the matching sub-score.
Frequently asked questions
How many criteria does Worthorpass use to score an offer?
Seven: offer clarity, value for money, refund terms, pricing honesty, delivery and access, vendor transparency and claim discipline. The score is their plain average, rounded to one decimal.
Which criterion do most offers score worst on?
Vendor transparency. As of October 2026 its median is 4.0 and 1,086 of 1920 offers score 4 or lower on it. Value for money is next, with a median of 4.5.
What score do you need for Worth it?
An average of 6.5 or more, plus at least 5 on both offer clarity and vendor transparency. A lower average leads to Worth a look (5.0 to 6.4) or Pass (below 5.0).
Do you test the products you score?
No. We score the offer: what the sales page and the Digistore24 order form say, charge and promise. We have not bought or used the products.
Can I see the sub-scores for each offer?
Yes. All seven sub-scores are printed on every review, so you can weigh them differently from us.
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