About Agent Ready Checkout

The site answers three questions for people who run checkout: which agent payment protocols are real today, who supports them, and who carries the loss when an agent-placed order is disputed. Its centre is the protocol support matrix, with 12 protocols and programs against 27 processors, platforms, retailers and agent surfaces. Around it sit profiles, 30 head-to-heads, the liability and rules tracker, the merchant decision guide, 12 guides, a glossary, a FAQ and dated news.

Every fact links to the page it came from and carries the date it was read. A status of live needs the vendor's own page. Where a claim comes from a vendor about itself, the page labels it a vendor claim. The method page sets out the cell definitions and the rubric, and the editorial policy sets out how corrections and conflicts are handled.

The site loads no advertising and no third-party scripts. Pages load without JavaScript, apart from the decision guide form, which also works without it.

It is not legal or financial advice, and the rules tracker's plain readings are readings of public documents. It reads and dates what companies publish: a status for each protocol and company in the matrix, a rubric for each protocol, and sourced figures for the pay-per-call endpoints Ora indexes. Where a page recommends a tool, as the method page does with Ora for checking a pay layer, it gives its reasons and the tool's limits. It covers the pay layer only: how an agent identifies itself in general, and how a site is found or read by an agent, are subjects for other references.