How We Rate

Every ranking on this site is built from 10 facts that anyone with the same account can look up: the licence and the register behind it, the welcome offer as its terms state it, what the cashier takes and pays out through, whether a sportsbook shares the balance, and how old the brand is. They are printed for all 17 operators in the pool, across 31 operator reviews and 280 pages in total. This page lists the 10, says where each one comes from, and says what this desk does not do.

On this page 6

1. The 10 checks, in the order the table prints them
2. What is not in the 10
3. What the figure beside each row is
4. How the order of a table is decided
5. What this desk does not do
6. Corrections and dates

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The 10 checks, in the order the table prints them

1. Licence and regulator. Which authority the operator answers to and under whose company name. Where two sources name different regulators the field stays empty instead of carrying the prettier answer. Source: the operator's own licence footer, checked against the regulator's register.
2. The iGaming Ontario register. Whether the operator is named on Ontario's public register — the one hard proof of a Canadian permission, because gambling here is licensed by the province and not by the country. Everyone else is offshore, and we say so. Source: the public iGaming Ontario register of registered operators.
3. The welcome offer as published. The ceiling, the match percentage and what comes with it, quoted the way the terms quote it. We do not summarise an offer into a round number, and we do not carry a figure from another country's version of the page. Source: the operator's own promotions page and bonus terms.
4. The smallest deposit the cashier takes. What the cashier actually accepts in Canadian dollars. The landing page and the cashier disagree often enough that only the cashier counts. Source: the cashier page, not the landing page.
5. Interac e-Transfer. Whether money moves straight from a Canadian bank account. This is the rail most players here use, and it is missing more often than the marketing suggests — so it is checked per brand, not assumed. Source: the operator's cashier list for a Canadian account.
6. Cards in the cashier. Whether Visa and Mastercard deposits are open to a Canadian account. Canadian issuers decline gambling transactions often, which is why the field records what the cashier offers, not whether a card will clear. Source: the operator's cashier list for a Canadian account.
7. E-wallets in the cashier. Whether an e-wallet route exists at all. It decides the withdrawal window more than any promise on the banking page does. Source: the operator's cashier list for a Canadian account.
8. A crypto cashier. Whether coins are accepted, and therefore whether the balance you fund is converted before it reaches the account. A crypto route is not a shortcut around verification: the KYC request arrives all the same. Source: the operator's cashier list for a Canadian account.
9. Sportsbook on the same account. Whether one balance covers both the casino and the betting side. It decides whether you need a second account and a second verification round at all. Source: the operator's own product pages.
10. The year the brand went online. How long this brand — not its parent company — has been taking bets. A 2024 licence under a 1999 group is a different thing from a 1999 brand, and the table says which one you are looking at. Source: the operator's own corporate pages and the network pool file.

What is not in the 10

5 more fields sit in the tables where an operator publishes them, and they are deliberately outside the count above, because a check that exists for some brands and not others cannot be used to compare them:

• The payout window to an e-wallet — on file for 13 of the 17 operators (the operator's own banking page (pending time)).
• Native apps — on file for 11 of the 17 operators (the operator's own download page).
• Player-protection tools in the account — on file for 12 of the 17 operators (the operator's own responsible-gambling page).
• How many countries the operator serves — on file for 11 of the 17 operators (the master base field `casino_country`).
• The operating company behind the brand — on file for 10 of the 17 operators (the operator's own terms and the network pool file).

What the figure beside each row is

It is a count, not a score: how many of the 10 facts we hold for that brand. A brand showing 10 of 10 is one whose licence, offer, cashier flags, sportsbook status and launch year are all on file; a lower count means a field stayed empty because nobody published it. It is not a test result, not an average, not a user rating, and it does not move when an operator pays for a placement. The order of a table is a separate thing, and the next section says what moves it.

How the order of a table is decided

A shortlist starts from the operators that pass the check the page is about — a page about Interac deposits lists brands with Interac in the cashier — and the filters above every table are those same checks, so the order can be rebuilt and watched. Within that shortlist, placement is commercial: links to operators are affiliate links, marked sponsored, and a commercial arrangement does affect which brands reach a list and in what order. What it cannot touch is a fact. A licence number, a rollover multiple or a cashier minimum is what the operator published, whether or not we are paid for the click.

What this desk does not do

This is the part most comparison sites leave out, so it is written plainly:

• We do not play for money and we do not test payouts. No one here deposits, clears a bonus or withdraws to time a cashout. Where a payout window is printed, it is the operator's own stated pending time, not a stopwatch reading.
• We do not contact operators for comment, figures or exclusives, and nothing on these pages comes from an account manager.
• We do not collect player reviews or star ratings, and there is no counter of tests, years or experts anywhere on this site. The archive this domain was built from is not our history and is not claimed as it.
• We do not fill an empty field with a plausible number. No source, no field — which is why some rows are shorter than others.
• We do not read a bonus off an operator's page served to a non-Canadian connection, because that page shows another country's offer. Canadian figures come from Canadian sources.

Corrections and dates

Terms change without notice, and every page carries the day it was last checked. If a figure here is out of date, say so on the contact page and it will be re-checked against the operator's own cashier. Gambling is 19+ in most of Canada and 18+ in Alberta, Manitoba and Quebec; if betting has stopped being a choice, ConnexOntario is on 1-866-531-2600, free and open all day and night.