Reading a provider card

Above the cards, when a service has two or more providers, a comparison table puts the things Abroadocs ranks on side by side for every provider, in the order it compares them — does it do this work, whether it also does your other steps (shown when one of them does), its track record, its published price, whether its turnaround fits your deadline, where it is, its accreditation, and last, who it is and whether it publishes a privacy notice — each as a few plain words, with one line saying why the first is first. Under the service's heading, one line says how many candidates Abroadocs looked at, how many websites it read and how many passed the screening; when you gave a deadline and a provider publishes a turnaround, another says how many of the providers publish a turnaround that fits it, how many look too slow and how many do not say; and a fold ("What ruled others out", or "Why the list is short") counts the reasons the others did not make it — as numbers, never names. When you asked for several services and one found nobody, one line above all the services says so: "2 of 3 services have providers; sworn translation found nobody."

Each provider on your shortlist has a card:

• Name, country and website — the website shown as its domain, as the provider publishes it. Beside the name, the mark "Names its operator and privacy notice" when the provider's own pages show both (or "On an official list, with a privacy notice", when an official list named it). A card without the mark isn't a warning: Abroadocs simply didn't find both on its site.
• Not contacted — nobody has been in touch with this provider about your request, and nobody will be until you send your quote request.
• Also found for … on this request — this same business was found and screened for another service on your request too, so one business could take both steps, and its quote request asks for both.
• Its own site also offers … — the provider's own site, quoted, shows another step on your request that it was not listed for (it may not have passed that step's checks, or the other search had already finished).
• Email, and a phone number if one is published — read from the provider's own website.
• Published price — the provider's own words about price, quoted exactly, with a link to the page. "None published on its own pages" means Abroadocs found none. A tariff the page marks as valid for an earlier year is shown with that year — "Published for 2025 — may have changed" — and is never compared with other prices.
• Published turnaround — the same, for how long the work takes, with whether it looks compatible with your deadline when you gave one. A turnaround is the provider's own indication, not a promise. When neither a price nor a turnaround was published, the two rows become one line.
• Found through — the kind of place Abroadocs found the provider: its own website, a professional association's member directory, a public directory or list, or an official register that confirmed its credential. A directory is only where Abroadocs found them, never a credential.
• Accreditation — confirmed on an official register, the provider's own claim, or not found. See What the accreditation labels mean.
• What I checked — the provider's own words about this work, quoted from its site (Its own site says: "…"); one line saying what is still to confirm (the accreditation the service needs, the language pair, that the product matches the document you described, the price or the turnaround — whichever matters most); the year it was established, when its own pages publish one; why this provider is where it is in the list; Company details — who operates it, its privacy notice and where documents are processed, in the provider's own words or "not stated", with one line for a provider outside the EU and EEA that documents you send it leave the EU (Abroadocs never infers any of this and never calls a provider compliant); what Abroadocs could not confirm; and what Abroadocs confirmed, including which page it read the email address from when that wasn't the address the search first found.
• Record my choice — the main button: to note that you went with this provider.
• Quote request text — the drafted email, with Copy quote request and Open email app.