Editorial policy
Statuses follow evidence, not requests. A live cell needs the vendor's own page or documentation; an announced cell may rest on named trade press; a cell with nothing found says so with the date. Conflicts are recorded in the note and errors are corrected in the open.
Evidence
- Primary sources first: specifications, repositories, rulebooks, vendor documentation and filings.
- Trade press is allowed for announced status and for events, with the publication named, and is labelled as trade press where it appears.
- Vendor claims about the vendor are labelled as vendor claims, including claims by the vendor of any scanner this site mentions.
- Every fact has a read date. A source that changes is re-read at the next edition.
How a status changes
A company can send evidence through the contact page, and a cell changes only when the evidence meets the rule above. Ora, a scanner this site recommends on the method page, is not in the matrix and gets no profile; its figures appear labelled as its own.
Writing
Pages are written for a payments engineer who has read the specifications: short sentences, dates on every number, and no adjectives a source did not use. Each page opens with a short answer, ends with its sources, and gives the date it was last reviewed. Questions are kept out of headings except in the FAQ.
Corrections
An error is fixed in the data and the page, and the change is logged on the corrections page with the date. A dated change to the world, such as a vendor moving a product from pilot to live, is not a correction; it goes into the next edition's changelog.
Sources
- Methodology, read 4 Nov 2026
- Corrections, read 4 Nov 2026
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