Trade

Assisting one another

Q: For rotating money in the business, one person will be collecting a fixed amount from the 10 persons for the 11 months (including himself). Each month he will gather the entire amount and for the first month he will take the entire amount himself. For the remaining months, whoevers turn its is will take whole collected amount and the first person will take a small amount of commission (fixed amount) as the maintenance charge of this system. Is this system allowed in Islam? Is the commission amount interest?

Inviting customers to my site using the info available on other websites

Q: I am launching a new online website.Insha Allah. There are a few websites that offer a very similar service. I subscribe to these competitor websites. Their clients have items listed for sale on the site and the clients details are available, can I use these contact details to invite their customers to join my site. Is this permissible?