| 1 | scandiweb is listed as a Hyvä Platinum Partner; the listing states 15+ certified Hyvä developers and 40+ Hyvä projects delivered; the partners page groups partners as Platinum, Gold, and Silver and states 7,000+ online stores | hyva.io | 22 September 2026 | verified |
| 2 | scandiweb Clutch profile: 4.8 from 53 reviews, headquarters New York, founded 2003, 250 to 999 employees, minimum project $25,000, hourly rate $50 to $99, most common project size $50,000 to $199,999; two locations, New York and Riga; eCommerce development 40% of service lines; eCommerce systems 70% Magento, 20% BigCommerce, 10% Shopify; reviews name JYSK UAE and West Marine | Clutch | 22 September 2026 | verified |
| 3 | scandiweb Canada page: practice run from Montreal on Eastern Time; Michael Bliah, VP North America; Adobe Commerce builds, migrations, and support for Canadian retailers; JYSK Canada +20.1% checkout conversion rate and +58.0% unique purchases; PUMA +73.98% organic revenue year over year in Canada and +62% across four markets; Moose Knuckles named; dedicated cross-functional team on sprint-based roadmaps of three to six months; support and fixes in business hours | scandiweb.com | 22 September 2026 | stated by the agency |
| 4 | scandiweb Toronto page: no time zone difference for Toronto clients, daily standups and reviews in Toronto business hours, same-working-day replies; JYSK Canada +43.8% transactions and +76.6% PageSpeed score; PUMA 95 days from sign-off to launch and 80+ Lighthouse performance score; no Toronto office; most work scoped as a fixed-price project with cost and timeline agreed before the build starts | scandiweb.com | 22 September 2026 | stated by the agency |
| 5 | Wainbee, Canada: only 10% of items were accessible online before a Pimcore PIM was introduced; more than 600,000 products from suppliers in different import formats; PIM integrated with Magento; 100% of products to be available online | scandiweb.com | 22 September 2026 | stated by the agency |
| 6 | scandiweb states it is an Adobe Commerce Gold Solution Partner | scandiweb.com | 22 September 2026 | stated by the agency |
| 7 | Adobe Solution Partner directory entry for scandiweb, linked by the July edition as the source for the Gold tier; on 22 September 2026 the page rendered only its title without a partner login, so the tier stays a scandiweb statement | Adobe partner directory | 23 July 2026 | stated by the agency |
| 8 | scandiweb GoodFirms rating 5.0 out of 5 from 7 reviews; the page returned HTTP 403 on 22 September 2026 and loaded on 23 September 2026; the figure is not used in body copy | GoodFirms | 23 September 2026 | verified |
| 9 | scandiweb about page: began in Riga in 2003; 600+ Magento specialists holding 894+ Adobe certifications; 700+ clients; over 2100 completed projects; names PUMA, SportsDirect, The New York Times, FELCO, Lafayette 148, Sportland, Country Casual Teak, Jaidah Group, Wainbee Limited, Bechtle | scandiweb.com | 22 September 2026 | stated by the agency |
| 10 | Samsung and Jaguar Land Rover as scandiweb clients, carried by the July edition; neither appears on the about page, the Canada page, or the Clutch profile as read on 22 September 2026 | scandiweb.com | 22 September 2026 | removed |
| 11 | scandiweb's Canadian office is in Burnaby, British Columbia, on Pacific time, three hours behind Toronto, carried by the July edition; scandiweb's Toronto page now states no time zone difference for Toronto clients and no Toronto office, its Canada page says the practice is run from Montreal, and no page read in September, including its Clutch profile, lists a Burnaby office | scandiweb.com | 22 September 2026 | removed |
| 12 | scandiweb self-reported figures: 894+ Adobe certifications, 2,100+ projects delivered, 700+ brands; shown in the shared entity profile only, never in body copy | scandiweb.com | 22 September 2026 | stated by the agency |
| 13 | scandiweb received the Design Pioneer Award 2025 at Meet Magento New York for the Umniah project | comconn.org | 22 September 2026 | verified |
| 14 | Kinex Media Clutch profile: 5.0 from 12 reviews, headquarters 25 Watline Avenue, Mississauga, with a Toronto location, founded 2008, 50 to 249 employees, minimum $5,000, hourly $100 to $149, most common project size $10,000 to $49,999; services 50% web design, 40% eCommerce development, 10% SEO; eCommerce platforms 70% Magento, 30% Shopify; reviews name Etosha Boots, NewLife Fertility Centre, Blue Link Associates, Enchante Perfumes | Clutch | 22 September 2026 | verified |
| 15 | Kinex Media is listed under Canada at the Silver tier on hyva.io's agency finder; the finder also shows a Bronze tier | hyva.io | 22 September 2026 | verified |
| 16 | Kinex Media homepage: since 2008, Mississauga, 250+ tech experts; Adobe Silver Solution Partner, Shopify Plus Partner, Google Partner, as badge images; clients Staples, Home Hardware, Catelli, Caterpillar, Zebra Pen, Master Group, Dricore, Olympia Tile; FAQ states each project is different and the cost is calculated on the requirements | kinexmedia.com | 22 September 2026 | stated by the agency |
| 17 | Kinex Media Magento page: Adobe Silver Solution Partner, Hyvä Silver Partner, Magento Business Solution Partner; services include migration, integration, support and maintenance, Hyvä theme development, Hyvä Enterprise, dedicated support and managed hosting; Gourmet Trading Co 129% higher conversions and 209% more leads; Nasco Education built on Hyvä; CAN-AM and B.hemmings named; no response-time commitment | kinexmedia.com | 22 September 2026 | stated by the agency |
| 18 | Kinex Media Hyvä page: Hyvä Silver Partner; states Hyvä scores 100 out of 100 in Google PageSpeed as a theme capability; Gourmet Trading Co and Nasco Education named without figures | kinexmedia.com | 22 September 2026 | stated by the agency |
| 19 | Kinex Media described as a Toronto agency by the July edition; its site and Clutch both give Mississauga as headquarters with Toronto as a second location | Clutch | 22 September 2026 | removed |
| 20 | MageMontreal Clutch profile: 4.7 from 17 reviews (quality 4.6, schedule 4.5, cost 4.1, willingness to refer 4.6), 195 Rue Brissette, Sainte-Agathe-des-Monts, as its only location, founded 2007, 10 to 49 employees, English and French, Eastern Time, minimum $5,000, hourly $150 to $199, most common project size $50,000 to $199,999; services 80% eCommerce development; platforms 70% Magento, 10% BigCommerce, 10% Shopify, 10% WooCommerce; clients 65% mid-market, 25% small business, 10% enterprise; industries 65% retail, 20% consumer products, 15% manufacturing; reviews name Maison Adam, Hydrotek Hydroponics, Pépinière Lemay, Biron; portfolio names BeautySense | Clutch | 23 September 2026 | verified |
| 21 | MageMontreal DesignRush profile: founded 2007; under 49 employees; $150 an hour; minimum budget $1,000 to $10,000; eCommerce platforms listed as Magento, BigCommerce, Shopify, WooCommerce; a team section describing a CEO and founder, a VP of Operations, and a Senior Tech Lead who is Adobe Commerce certified; clients Kalia, Brothers Country Supply, Crystal Clear Bags, Spector & Co., Stone Tile, BeautySense, Valmont Cosmetics, GenSwiss, J.Sonic | DesignRush | 23 September 2026 | verified |
| 22 | MageMontreal's own site described a Montreal-based Magento specialist whose team communicates natively in French, as read for the July edition; magemontreal.com returned HTTP 403 twice on 22 September 2026 and loaded on 23 September 2026, when its homepage described a bilingual team, so the July reading is superseded by the row below | magemontreal.com | 23 July 2026 | stated by the agency |
| 23 | MageMontreal homepage, read on 23 September 2026: Adobe Solution Partner Silver badge linking to Adobe's directory; certified partner of Adobe Commerce, Magento, Shopify, BigCommerce, and WooCommerce; bilingual team with a track record across Canada and the US; 200+ clients, 300+ projects delivered, 4.7 out of 5 client satisfaction; Hyvä shown among its technologies; logos for Biron, BeautySense, FLB, J.Sonic, Pépinière Lemay, Melfred, and Maison Jacynthe; a Law 25 page; no case with a number, no city, and no founding year stated | magemontreal.com | 23 September 2026 | stated by the agency |
| 24 | MageMontreal placed in Montreal by the July edition; Clutch and DesignRush both give Sainte-Agathe-des-Monts | DesignRush | 22 September 2026 | removed |
| 25 | OptiWeb Marketing homepage: 8500 Decarie Boulevard, 3rd floor, Mont-Royal; 15 years; 1500+ satisfied clients; 400+ successful projects; 50+ technical experts; Google Partner; platforms Shopify, WordPress, Magento, WooCommerce; ratings shown as Google 4.8, Clutch 5.0, TechReviewer 4.8, DesignRush 5.0, of which the Clutch figure differs from Clutch's own 4.8; clients named include Big Bang, Polyrix, Belgrave Roofing, Jigsaw Jungle, The Rug District | optiwebmarketing.ca | 22 September 2026 | stated by the agency |
| 26 | OptiWeb Marketing Magento page: eCommerce consulting, website design and development, maintenance and support, migration and upgrading; Google Partner; no Adobe or Magento certification or tier stated; client logos Destination, Spunt, Big Bang, KPI, Belgrave, Jigsaw Jungle, Saunas, Levine Bros | optiwebmarketing.ca | 22 September 2026 | stated by the agency |
| 27 | OptiWeb Marketing Clutch profile: 4.8 from 6 reviews, Mont-Royal, founded 2010, 10 to 49 employees, minimum $5,000, hourly $100 to $149; services 20% web design, 20% web development, 15% eCommerce development, 15% mobile apps, 15% paid search, 15% SEO; eCommerce platforms 35% Magento, 35% Shopify, 30% WooCommerce; reviews name Econolease, Big Bang, Gabriel Cohen Clinical Services, Monsieur Drain, ENT Specialty Group, Dor-Val Mfg; languages English and French; most common project size under $10,000 based on 5 reviews | Clutch | 22 September 2026 | verified |
| 28 | Bellwood Clutch profile: 4.9 from 15 reviews, headquarters 2275 Marietta Boulevard NW, Atlanta, with a Toronto office of 2 to 5 people, 10 to 49 employees in total, founded 2019, minimum $25,000, hourly $150 to $199, most common project size under $50,000 based on 11 reviews; services 20% each custom software, eCommerce development, enterprise app modernization, mobile apps, web development; eCommerce platforms 40% Shopify, 30% Magento, 30% WooCommerce; senior US and Canada-based engineers; reviews name ExhibitSuite, OTHRSource, Pfotzer Properties, Sofer Advisors | Clutch | 23 September 2026 | verified |
| 29 | Bellwood homepage: Atlanta, Georgia; custom software for businesses too complex to run off-the-shelf tools; clients Dallas Mavericks, Warner Bros. Discovery, Disney, Aflac, Weelynk, The Weather Channel, SPANX, Hello Jo; Inc. 5000 placing 1558 in 2026, third consecutive year; no Magento or Adobe Commerce mention | bellwood.io | 22 September 2026 | stated by the agency |
| 30 | Bellwood described as Bellwood Labs, a Toronto studio, by the July edition; its site and Clutch use the name Bellwood and give Atlanta as headquarters with a Toronto office | bellwood.io | 22 September 2026 | removed |
| 31 | Clutch's list of Magento developers in Canada shows Kinex Media (Mississauga, 5.0 from 12), MageMontreal (Sainte-Agathe-des-Monts, 4.7 from 17), OptiWeb Marketing (Mont-Royal, 4.8 from 6), and Bellwood (Toronto, 4.9 from 15, minimum $25,000); scandiweb and Kodershop were not in the portion read | Clutch | 22 September 2026 | verified |
| 32 | Kodershop Clutch profile: 4.9 from 6 reviews, headquarters 3250 Bloor Street West, Toronto, offices in Beaverton, Oregon, and L'viv, Ukraine, 10 to 49 employees (10 to 15 Toronto, 2 to 5 Beaverton, 21 to 30 L'viv), founded 2016, hourly $100 to $149, minimum project size undisclosed, most common project size $10,000 to $49,999 based on 1 review; services 25% custom software, 25% ERP consulting, 10% each AI, eCommerce, IoT, mobile, web; eCommerce systems 30% BigCommerce, 20% WooCommerce, 10% Magento, 5% Shopify; reviews name Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority, Sky Contracting, ProgUSA, Premier Property Management, 2590051 Ontario Inc, LMCMT Technologies | Clutch | 23 September 2026 | verified |
| 33 | Kodershop homepage: 3250 Bloor Street West, Suite 600, Toronto; software development and ERP services; Odoo Partner badge; kleverERP, kleverPOS, kleverPayroll products; clients HISA, ProgUSA, 2590051 Ontario Inc, LMCMT Technologies; no Magento, Adobe Commerce, or eCommerce service named | kodershop.com | 22 September 2026 | stated by the agency |
| 34 | Kodershop technical support page: contact within 24 hours; local and offshore teams with offices in the United States and Canada and development centers in Eastern Europe; local team builds and sets requirements during the day and remote team works overnight; Fixed Time and Fixed Price model at a mutually agreed price; Dedicated Resource Model with monthly billing and no hidden costs; clients PWC and Metro Cash and Carry; no Magento mention | kodershop.com | 22 September 2026 | stated by the agency |
| 35 | Kodershop described by the July edition as focused on Magento support, maintenance, and incremental development; no page on kodershop.com mentions Magento on 22 September 2026 and Clutch puts Magento at 10% of its eCommerce systems | kodershop.com | 22 September 2026 | removed |
| 36 | Magento is an open source eCommerce platform written in PHP; first general-availability release 31 March 2008 by Varien; Adobe completed its acquisition on 19 June 2018 for $1.68 billion; editions are Magento Open Source and Adobe Commerce, a proprietary edition on the same core files; Magento 1.9.4 reached end of life on 30 June 2020 | Wikipedia | 22 September 2026 | verified |
| 37 | Adobe Commerce B2B features: company accounts joining multiple buyers with divisions, subdivisions, user roles, and permissions; shared catalogs with custom prices per product per company; negotiable quotes; purchase orders created automatically with approval rules; payment on account with credit allocated by the merchant; requisition lists; quick order by product name or SKU | Adobe Experience League | 22 September 2026 | verified |
| 38 | Adobe Commerce lifecycle dates: 2.4.4 regular support ended 12 April 2025 and extended 14 April 2026; 2.4.5 regular ended 12 August 2025 and extended 11 August 2026; 2.4.6 regular ended 11 August 2026 and extended ends 31 August 2027; 2.4.7 regular ends 31 May 2027; 2.4.8 regular ends 31 May 2028; 2.4.9 released 12 May 2026, regular ends 31 May 2029; 2.4.7 extended ends 31 May 2028; 2.4.8 and 2.4.9 extended dates listed as TBD | Adobe Experience League | 23 September 2026 | verified |
| 39 | Hyvä theme license page: the theme is open source and free, available on GitHub and via free license keys under the OSL and AFL licenses; up to 5 free license keys per customer account or a joint 50 per agency partner group; 6,000+ merchants | hyva.io | 22 September 2026 | verified |
| 40 | Hyvä documentation: the theme uses Tailwind CSS, which requires Node.js 20 or higher on development instances, and Alpine.js; requires Magento 2.4.4-p9, 2.4.5-p8, 2.4.6-p7, 2.4.7-p1 or higher; copyright Hyvä Themes 2020 to present | docs.hyva.io | 22 September 2026 | verified |
| 41 | Hyvä introduced in 2021 by Willem Wigman and sold as a commercial framework with a one-time license per store, carried by the July edition; hyva.io's license page now states the theme is free and open source, and no page read names the creator or the year | hyva.io | 22 September 2026 | removed |
| 42 | Luma storefronts score in the 30s to 50s and Hyvä stores in the 90s on mobile Lighthouse, and Luma loads thirty to forty JavaScript files, carried by the July edition; no page read states either range | docs.hyva.io | 22 September 2026 | removed |
| 43 | Shopify is a Canadian company headquartered in Ottawa, Ontario, founded in 2006 by Tobias Lütke, Daniel Weinand, and Scott Lake, operating a cloud eCommerce platform | Wikipedia | 22 September 2026 | verified |
| 44 | OQLF, language of commerce and business: every business active in Quebec must offer products and services in French; consumers have the right to a complete French version of a business's website; commercial publications, including websites and social media content, must be written in French; all information on a product, its packaging, or an accompanying document must be in French; French must be clearly predominant in public signage and commercial advertising | Office québécois de la langue française | 22 September 2026 | verified |
| 45 | OQLF business page: the law on the official and common language of Quebec, French, brought new obligations for businesses into force on 1 June 2025 on the display of trademarks and business names, trademarks appearing on products, and adhesion contracts; businesses with 25 or more employees register and submit a linguistic analysis within three months | Office québécois de la langue française | 22 September 2026 | verified |
| 46 | Commission d'accès à l'information, main changes under Law 25: from September 2022, communication without consent limited to cases such as a commercial transaction; from September 2023, a person responsible for personal information with title and contact details published online, a privacy policy in simple and clear terms on the website, consent that is manifest, free, informed, and for specific purposes with each purpose consented separately, express consent for sensitive information, a privacy impact assessment before communicating personal information outside Quebec, an incident register and notification of serious incidents, and identification, location, or profiling technologies not activated by default; from 22 September 2024, data portability in a structured and commonly used format | Commission d'accès à l'information du Québec | 22 September 2026 | verified |
| 47 | Canadian-dollar build cost bands ($45,000 to $120,000 small, $120,000 to $400,000 mid-market, $400,000 to $1.5M+ enterprise), hourly rate bands by team type, Adobe Commerce license of CAD 30,000 to 175,000+ per year, hosting of CAD 6,000 to 60,000 per year, retainer bands, the 15 to 25 percent rule, and build timelines, carried by the July pricing guide; no page supports any of them | editorial estimate in the July edition | 23 July 2026 | removed |
| 48 | Adobe's partner tier ladder from Registered through Bronze, Silver, Gold, and Platinum, assigned on certified staff, project volume, and satisfaction scores, carried by the July guide; Adobe's directory did not render without a partner login and no other page read describes the ladder | Adobe partner directory | 22 September 2026 | removed |
| 49 | The GTA is the largest consumer market in Canada and Quebec shoppers reach for Interac more than a US template assumes, carried by the July Toronto and Montreal guides; no page read supports either | editorial statement in the July edition | 23 July 2026 | removed |
| 50 | Kinex Media's Hyvä column shown as empty in the July capability table; hyva.io's agency finder lists it at Silver under Canada on 22 September 2026 | hyva.io | 22 September 2026 | removed |
| 51 | scandiweb Hyvä Platinum partner, as read for the July edition from the same hyva.io page and re-read on 22 September 2026 | hyva.io | 23 July 2026 | verified |
| 52 | scandiweb Clutch rating 4.8 from 53 reviews, as read for the July edition from the same Clutch page and re-read on 22 September 2026 | Clutch | 23 July 2026 | verified |
| 53 | scandiweb is listed as a Pimcore Platinum Partner; the Wainbee case names Pimcore as the PIM | Pimcore partner directory | 22 September 2026 | verified |
| 54 | scandiweb size as stated: 501 to 1,000 on LinkedIn | LinkedIn | 22 September 2026 | verified |
| 55 | MageMontreal's DesignRush profile as giving the 195 Rue Brissette address, a Google rating of 4.8 from 17 reviews, and the names Guillaume Le Tual (CEO and founder), Camille Perrin (VP of Operations), and Nicolas Medina (Senior Tech Lead), carried by the 22 September draft; the profile read on 23 September 2026 shows none of these, so the names and rating were deleted and the address is sourced to Clutch instead | DesignRush | 23 September 2026 | removed |
| 56 | Bellwood's most common Clutch project size given as $50,000 to $199,999 by the 22 September draft; Clutch shows under $50,000 based on 11 reviews on 23 September 2026 | Clutch | 23 September 2026 | removed |
| 57 | Shopify's Plus B2B page as describing company profiles, payment terms, tax exemptions, B2B catalogs, volume pricing, and quantity rules, and as not describing negotiated quotes or purchase-on-account credit, carried by the 22 September draft; no Shopify page was in the ledger, so the comparison was deleted | Wikipedia | 23 September 2026 | removed |
| 58 | HubSpot named among OptiWeb Marketing's tools by the 22 September draft; its homepage read on 23 September 2026 names Google Analytics, Semrush, and Ahrefs but not HubSpot | optiwebmarketing.ca | 23 September 2026 | removed |