How We Earn

Clicking a link from Kongslots to an operator does not change the price a reader pays. The welcome bonus, the deposit minimum, the wagering requirement and the withdrawal speed are the same as if the reader typed the operator address into the browser. The commission is paid by the operator from its own marketing budget, not from the player's deposit.

A reader is sometimes offered a slightly larger welcome bonus for using an operator-specific coupon code that we have negotiated. In those cases the code is listed in the review and in the top banner. We do not accept coupon codes that lock the reader into higher wagering requirements than the standard welcome bonus; if the only way to get the larger coupon is to accept worse terms, we leave the coupon out of the review and note the fact in the editorial log. Transparency on the commission split: the operator pays Kongslots a percentage of its own gross gaming revenue from the referred account for the lifetime of the account, with a minimum one-time payment on first qualifying deposit. The exact percentage is not published because it changes with volume, but the commission is always paid by the operator from its marketing budget and never charged back to the player's balance.

Our business model is affiliate marketing. Kongslots receives a commission from the operator for each new account that opens through a link on our site. The commission is paid once per account and only if the reader passes KYC and makes a qualifying first deposit. It is paid monthly in GBP and is not conditional on whether the player wins or loses.

Our affiliate relationship with Kongslots runs through the operator's own affiliate programme — not through a general network — which means we can see the terms, the attribution window and the payout schedule in writing. The attribution window is thirty days; a reader who clicks our link in the first week of the month and opens an account in the last week of the same month still earns us the commission. The payout schedule is monthly in arrears in GBP, settled by bank transfer on the fifteenth of each month. In practice this means that a referred account that deposits £25 and plays for twenty minutes before cashing out is approximately break-even for the operator and marginal for us; a referred account that becomes a regular player over several months is where the commission adds up. Neither case changes anything the player sees. A small share of commission is used to fund the real-money tests in the methodology section — the deposits that come back as withdrawals are not profit, and the balance that is lost during a test is a cost that the commission has to cover before any of it reaches the editorial pay.

The arrangement is transparent and the reader is not asked to pay anything to this site at any point. The two things it changes for the reader are: (1) we have an incentive to recommend operators that convert visitors into accounts, which is why we publish our ranking criteria and refuse paid placements, and (2) we have the budget to run the long-form reviews, test the apps and keep this site free to read.

On the reader side, the practical consequence of our business model is that reviews on this site tend to be longer than reviews on sites paid directly by advertisers. We can afford to run the real-money tests described in the methodology section because the commission pays for the time; a shorter review would not justify the deposit and the KYC paperwork. The second practical consequence is that we are selective: we do not publish reviews of operators that we would not personally use, because we would not expect readers to accept a recommendation from us for a site we would not sit down at ourselves. One further practical consequence is that our review of Kongslots can be read as evidence that we would accept the operator as a reader; the full real-money test described in the methodology section is itself a vote of confidence. If a reader has questions that are not answered in the review — for example about a specific payment method not covered in our test window — the editorial inbox is open and we are happy to run a follow-up test for the next revision.