How We Rank
Every approval time here is how long a casino took to approve a withdrawal we actually submitted. This is how we take it, and how the board is ordered.
The Measurement
For each site we time, we open an account, complete verification on the day we register, deposit our own money, play enough to make the balance withdrawable with no bonus attached, and request a withdrawal on a weekday. The clock starts at submission and stops when the cashier reports the request approved.
That is the casino's half of the transaction and the only half it controls. What the payment rail does afterwards is recorded separately on the withdrawal times pages, because a nine minute approval paid to a debit card still takes days and that is not the casino's doing.
Why Verification Happens First
Because otherwise we would be timing our own paperwork. A first withdrawal at an unverified account can take three days at a site that clears in twenty minutes once documents are approved. Verifying on registration day removes the largest variable and makes the sites comparable with each other, which is the whole point of a board.
What Untimed Means
Nine of the fourteen sites carry no recorded time. It means we have not run the test, and nothing more than that. It is not a judgement about the operator, and we do not fill the gap with the figure the site advertises or with an average from similar sites. A number in a column headed approval time is read as a measurement, so it stays blank until it is one.
How the Board Is Ordered
The main board weighs each operator's published welcome terms alongside the commercial terms it offers us, so a recorded time informs a row rather than fixing its position. The smaller boards on our other pages are different: they rank on recorded approval time.
What We Do Not Do
- No score. No stars, no rating out of ten. There is no data behind such a number, and a score invented to win a rich result in search is exactly the thing that gets a site penalised.
- No bought figures. Commercial terms feed the order of the main board, but they never change a figure on a row. A recorded time is a fact rather than an opinion we could revise.
- No claims we have not tested. Where a figure comes from an operator's terms rather than our own test, the page says so.
What Commission Does Affect
The order of the main board, as set out above, and which sites are here at all. We can only list operators running an affiliate programme, so the board is a comparison of the sites we can cover rather than of every casino in existence. That is a real limitation and it belongs on this page rather than in the small print. The advertising disclosure has the detail.
Corrections
If you have measured something different at one of these sites, or you operate one and think a figure is wrong, write to editor@signpost-online.co.uk. We retest rather than argue, and a retested figure replaces the old one with the date changed.