Can I talk to one of your clients before we commit?
Sometimes, and only after that client has said yes to your specific request. We do not keep a standing reference list that we hand out, because it burns the goodwill of the people on it. What we will do is ask a client working on the same system or the same order problem as you, and tell you honestly if nobody says yes. In the meantime the published case studies and project records on this site carry the figures the clients gave us.
Do you work outside Quebec?
Yes. We work with manufacturers, distributors and wholesalers across Canada, the United States and Europe. Scrub Authority, Earth Fed Muscle, Sallie Tomato, Modular Robotics, Slice Engineering, Just Thrive and Concrete Countertop Solutions are all United States operators. Implementation work is mostly remote, and we travel for on-site discovery when a project warrants it. We are based in Montreal and we operate in English and French.
Do you only work with Shopify merchants?
No, but PDF to Order does. It is distributed as a Shopify app, so every merchant on the product side of this page runs Shopify, and orders can flow on from there into a connected system such as Odoo or Katana MRP. The implementation practice is not tied to Shopify at all. That work is MRP and ERP rollouts and operations audits for manufacturers, on Katana MRP, MRPeasy and Odoo, and several of those engagements never touched an ecommerce platform.
What size of company do you work with?
The range in the case studies is wide on purpose. The same product that helps a twenty person consumer goods brand automate emailed purchase orders also won a structured evaluation at a Shopify Plus B2B enterprise that had considered building the software itself. On the implementation side the work skews to low volume, high specification manufacturers, where the bill of material is not a fixed recipe. What matters more than headcount is how many orders arrive as documents, and how much of your catalogue and pricing lives outside the system that receives them.
Do you publish every client?
No. We publish clients who agreed to be named. A client relationship becomes a page here when two things are true: the client has said yes to being named publicly, and we can source the outcome rather than characterise it. Everything else stays unpublished, including work we are proud of. If you see a smaller list here than you expected from a company our age, that is the reason, not a shortage of engagements.
Several of your case studies say coming soon. Why?
Because the merchant agreed to be named and gave us the headline figure, but the full write up is not finished or not yet approved by them. We would rather publish the name and the one number we can stand behind than pad it out with narrative we invented. Scrub Authority and The Unscented Company are the two written up in full today.
Are the numbers on this page yours or the clients'?
The clients'. Every figure in the testimonials came from the client, either in a review they wrote publicly or in a case study interview they approved. Our own product claims are separate and live on the product pages: about six minutes an order down to about one, a 0.5% error rate against 3% for manual entry, which is six times fewer, with a human signing off on every order.
Why do the quotes name a role instead of a person?
Because attributing by company and role is enough to make a quote checkable, and publishing a named individual's details is a decision that belongs to them rather than to our marketing. If you are writing about us and need a named source, the press page explains how to ask.
Will you use my company as a reference if we work together?
Only if you tell us yes, in writing, for the specific thing we are asking about. Consent to one case study is not consent to a logo wall, and consent to a logo wall is not consent to a reference call. Ask us to keep the engagement private and it stays private, on this page and everywhere else.