To join just complete the simple registration process, which will only take five minutes. All you need to do is list your magazine details; we will then calculate the number of ContraPoints you will earn when someone advertises in your magazine.

Simple - just complete the sign up form, and we’ll email you an activation link. Verify your email by clicking the link and you’re ready to go. Our verification check makes sure all users are genuinely involved in running the magazine. We aim to complete this check and get you live on the system within one business day.

To sign up, you must be involved in the running of a magazine. Specifically, you must have the authority within your company to agree to run an advertisement in your magazine, and the authority to agree to place advertisements in other magazines.

Any size of magazine can join ContraSwap, we have no minimum or maximum circulation requirement.

We accept a wide range of consumer and business publications to ContraSwap. We do not currently accept registrations from magazines which are pornographic in nature, or which depict or endorse activities which are illegal under British law.

Yes, of course. You must approve each request to advertise in your magazine, and then you must approve each piece of artwork. You may refuse any advertisement without giving a reason for the refusal. You are never forced to accept any advertisement at any time. However, once you have agreed to place a ContraSwapped advertisement you are then contractually obliged to publish it, just as you would be with a paid-for advertisement.

Your circulation does not have to be audited for you to join ContraSwap. In time, we will add additional incentives for magazines whose circulation is audited. You are free to change your circulation figure on ContraSwap as your magazine grows.