How We Make Money
CreditCardCasinos.ca earns revenue through affiliate commissions. When you click a link to a casino on our site and sign up, the casino pays us a referral fee. This is the standard monetisation model for casino review sites — and we want you to understand exactly how it works.
How Affiliate Commissions Work
The process:
- We publish our research, including links to casinos that meet our ranking criteria.
- You click a casino link on our site. This link contains a tracking parameter that identifies CreditCardCasinos.ca as the referral source.
- You arrive at the casino’s website. If you create an account and make a deposit, the casino records that you were referred by us.
- The casino pays us a commission for the referral. This is typically a one-time fee per new depositing player, or in some cases a revenue share arrangement.
What we earn: Commission varies by operator. We don’t disclose exact per-operator commission rates because these are subject to confidentiality agreements, but we can share that:
- Commission ranges from approximately $50 to $250 per new depositing player, depending on the operator
- Some operators pay a revenue share model instead (a percentage of the player’s net losses over time)
- Commission rates vary and are renegotiated periodically
- Our highest-paying partner is not our #1-ranked casino
Does Commission Influence Rankings?
No. And here’s how you can verify this:
- Our scoring criteria are published. CC Acceptance (30%), Payout Reliability (25%), Licensing (20%), RG Tools (15%), Support (10%). “Commission rate” is not an input. See our full methodology.
- We’ve rejected high-commission sites. Sites offering above-average commissions have been rejected because they failed our criteria (licence verification, CC acceptance, withdrawal timing, etc.).
- We’ve removed commission-paying partners. When Betway failed our withdrawal test (11 days vs. stated 3–5), we removed them from rankings despite the commission loss. When Casumo’s CC acceptance dropped to 71%, we removed them too.
- Our #1 site isn’t our highest-paying partner. Jackpot City earns the top ranking because it has the highest CC acceptance rate (98.2%), fastest withdrawal (3 days), and dual licensing (MGA + Kahnawake) — not because of what they pay us.
Which Casinos We Have Relationships With
We have active affiliate relationships with the 5 casinos in our rankings:
- Jackpot City Casino
- Spin Casino
- Royal Vegas Casino
- 888 Casino Canada
- LeoVegas Canada
We also maintain relationships with some casinos that we’ve tested but don’t currently rank — this allows us to re-test them if conditions change. Having an affiliate relationship with a casino does not guarantee a ranking. Having no affiliate relationship does not preclude a ranking (though in practice, we can only link to sites where we have an established relationship).
How You Can Verify Our Independence
Don’t take our word for it. Here’s how to assess whether our rankings are genuinely independent:
- Check our methodology. Are the scoring criteria clearly defined? Do they make sense for a site focused on Canadian credit card deposits? Could you apply them yourself and reach similar conclusions?
- Check our rejections. We publish every notable site we tested and rejected, with specific reasons. Sites that don’t disclose rejections likely don’t have any — which means they recommend everything.
- Check our changelog. Every ranking change is documented on our homepage with a date, what changed, and why. You can track our decisions over time.
- Check our corrections. We’ve issued 3 corrections since launch. Sites that claim they’ve never made an error are either lying or not checking.
- Verify the data yourself. Our sources page links to every regulatory database and bank agreement we reference. You can verify casino licences and bank policies independently.
The Inherent Conflict
We want to be direct about this: there is an inherent conflict of interest in affiliate publishing. We earn money when you sign up at casinos we recommend. A completely unbiased assessment would come from someone with no financial relationship with the subject — and that’s not us.
What we can do — and what we believe we do — is manage this conflict through:
- Published, fixed scoring criteria that don’t include commission as a factor
- Transparent rejection of sites that fail our criteria regardless of commission
- Public documentation of every ranking change
- This disclosure, which tells you exactly how we make money
You should factor our financial relationship into how much weight you give our recommendations. We think our methodology is sound and our rankings are honest, but we’re not going to pretend the conflict doesn’t exist.
Canadian Disclosure Compliance
This disclosure is designed to comply with:
- Competition Act (Canada): The Competition Bureau’s guidance on online reviews and endorsements requires that material connections between reviewers and products be disclosed. Our affiliate relationship is a material connection, disclosed here and in the banner at the top of every page.
- PIPEDA: Our privacy policy covers data handling aspects of affiliate tracking.
- FTC Guidelines (US): While we’re a Canadian site, many of our readers may be familiar with FTC endorsement guidelines. Our disclosure meets or exceeds FTC requirements for material connection disclosure.
Questions
If you have questions about our affiliate relationships, commission structures, or how we manage conflicts of interest, email [email protected]. We’re happy to discuss this openly — transparency only works if it’s actually transparent.
Affiliate disclosure effective since site launch, March 15, 2019. Current version: February 2025. CreditCardCasinos Media Inc., Ontario, Canada.