What Does the BBB Do?

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Your Better Business Bureau helps the people you care about most – your employees, customers, friends, and loved ones – with business and charity reliability information, complaints, and dispute resolution services as many as one million times a year.

About four out of five consumers (79%) say they would be likely to contact the Better Business Bureau for information about a company’s reliability.
- Internet survey on perceptions of BBB

In addition to supplying pre-purchase information about business and charity reliability, the Better Business Bureau helps you in these important ways:

  • Resolves customer problems without litigation
  • Informs businesses about customer service problems
  • Provides educational reports about a wide array of topics, ranging from smart travel tips, renting or buying a car, wise shopping strategies, and home improvement, to senior issues
  • Alerts individuals and companies to scams that affect them
  • Educates businesses and consumers about responsible advertising and e-commerce practices
  • Promotes business self-regulation