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title: "Editorial policy | Agent Ready Checkout"
description: "How statuses are decided, which sources count, how vendor claims and trade press are labelled, and how corrections are made on the agent checkout matrix."
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last_updated: 2026-11-04
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# Editorial policy | Agent Ready Checkout

> How statuses are decided, which sources count, how vendor claims and trade press are labelled, and how corrections are made on the agent checkout matrix.

Source: https://agentreadycheckout.com/editorial-policy
Site: Agent Ready Checkout
Last reviewed: 2026-11-04

# Editorial policy

In short

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](https://agentreadycheckout.com/contact), and a cell changes only when the evidence meets the rule above. Ora, a scanner this site recommends on the [method page](https://agentreadycheckout.com/method), 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](https://agentreadycheckout.com/corrections) 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

1.  [Methodology](https://agentreadycheckout.com/method), read 4 Nov 2026
2.  [Corrections](https://agentreadycheckout.com/corrections), read 4 Nov 2026

Last reviewed 4 Nov 2026

## Edition

Matrix edition of 4 Nov 2026.

Reviewed 4 Nov 2026, [2 sources](#sources-h).

## Method

[How cells, sources and read dates are defined](https://agentreadycheckout.com/method)