For vendors

habit.report reads a vendor's own pages and records what they say. Nothing a vendor tells us by email, in a call or in a form changes a cell; a page does. So the way to be read correctly is to say it on a page. The rules below are the method's, restated as what a reader needs to find. They are the same for every vendor in the index.

1. Where we read

• Your pricing page, plan comparison, help centre, documentation, terms and privacy pages, and your listings in the

app stores. Nothing behind a login, a trial or a country selector: that is "needs an account" and stays unread.

• Pages must be fetchable by a plain request. A bot wall turns a page into "not reachable on <date>".
• Addresses should be stable. Every claim links to the page it came from; a moved page breaks the link and the

claim is re-read, not assumed.

2. The habit workflow, in one place

The index records a practitioner workflow in four steps. One page that states all four, in order, is read as one source and earns fewer conditions than four pages stitched together:

• Assignment. Who assigns what to whom: a recurring item, on a schedule, to one client, to a group, or as a

plan any client adds. If a plan can be sent to one person, say so in those words.

• Completion. What the client does to record it, how often, and on what: an app, a web page, a calendar event.
• Review. What the practitioner sees of it, by client or in aggregate, and on which plan. "On Free you see

counts; on Pro you see each client's answers" is exactly the kind of sentence the index quotes.

• Feedback. How a practitioner's response reaches one client, and whether the client can reply.

Call the feature what it is. The index records your name for it. If your "panels", "check-ins" or "targets" are habits, a page that says "habits" is read as habits; a page that never says the word is recorded as never saying it.

3. Plans and prices

• Print the currency code with every amount. A bare "$" is recorded as "currency unconfirmed", never as USD, and

never enters a cross-vendor figure.

• Print the billing period, and say when a period does not exist: "monthly only", "no annual plan".
• Say what is not charged. "No setup fee", "no per-client fee", "no transaction fee" each become a recorded fact;

silence is recorded as "not stated", never as zero.

• Put "unlimited clients" on each plan it applies to, in those words. A plan without a stated cap is "cap not

stated", not unlimited.

• Keep regular prices as the price. Introductory, founder or promotional amounts are recorded as dated references

only.

• A plan comparison that lists every feature on every plan, including what the free plan lacks, is the page the

free classification is read from.

4. The rule for free

Free means permanent access to the whole workflow at the client count a reader chooses. A free account, a trial, a money-back guarantee or a free feature outside the workflow does not qualify. If your free plan includes assignment and completion but not per-client review, the index records that plainly, and the plan is listed with the reason beside it rather than as free. A sentence that states the free plan's limits exactly is better than one that implies more than it gives.

5. Regulated use

The index prints a lay reading of what your pages state, feature by feature: data entry, hosting, messages, notifications, attachments, video, exports, integrations, AI features, a US business associate agreement, and anything about Canada or Ontario. Negative statements count: "we do not offer a business associate agreement", "no AI features", "data is stored in more than one country" each turn "not stated" into "vendor states". A badge is not a statement; a sentence is.

6. Changes

Keep a dated change log on your site. The index re-reads every page each quarter and records what moved; a dated entry lets the re-read say when, and lets a reader see that a price or a plan changed on a day rather than silently.

7. What does not help

• Writing to us. Nothing said to the index changes a cell.
• Marketing superlatives. The index records terms, not claims; a page that calls a plan the top choice is recorded for

its price, not its adjective.

• Anything inside the account. If a reader needs it, publish it.