Affiliate Disclosure
This page lays out plainly how PayID Pokies earns money, what an affiliate link is, what it does and doesn't change about how reviews get written, and what we promise — and don't promise — about the operators we cover. The fuller picture also lives on the About and Editorial Policy pages; this disclosure is the short version of the commercial side.
What an affiliate link is
Most outbound links on PayID Pokies that point at an operator carry a tracking tag, usually built straight into the URL. When a reader clicks the link and lands on the operator's site, the operator logs that the visit came from PayID Pokies. If that reader then registers, clears identity verification and makes a real-money deposit, the operator pays PayID Pokies a commission. The amount is either a one-time fee per qualifying registration or, more commonly, a percentage of the operator's net revenue from that player across a defined window. Either way the reader pays nothing extra: they get the same welcome bonus, the same wagering terms and the same cashier limits as anyone arriving at the operator by any other route. The commission comes out of the operator's own marketing budget.
Not every outbound link is an affiliate link. Links to regulators (ACMA, Curacao eGaming, UKGC), support services (Gambling Help Online, BetStop), independent player communities (AskGamblers, Casino Guru, Trustpilot) and other reference material are plain hyperlinks with no tracking and no commercial relationship attached. Links to game studios are similarly untracked. The rough rule of thumb is simple: if a link points at a casino operator with a clickable signup, assume it's affiliated. If it points anywhere else, assume it isn't.
What the partnership does not buy
A commercial relationship with an operator doesn't buy that operator a higher score on PayID Pokies, and the absence of one doesn't push a score down either. The framework laid out in the Editorial Policy is applied identically to every brand that earns a full review. In practice, we've rated partner operators at six and below, and operators with no commercial agreement at eight and above. Two reasons. First, an obvious editorial one: a review site that inflates scores for paying brands lasts about as long as it takes readers to notice, which isn't long. Second, a commercial one: a high score that doesn't match what readers find on the operator's site produces fast cancellations, support escalations and complaints. Those drive chargeback rates up and lifetime values down — exactly the metric the operator is paying us to move in the right direction. The long-term commercial logic and the editorial logic point the same way.
What the partnership does buy
What an affiliate relationship buys is access — sometimes — to specific data the operator doesn't publish on its marketing site. That can include raw withdrawal-time distributions, bonus participation rates, or KYC clearance times measured against a documented window. PayID Pokies uses that data where it sharpens the review; it never uses it to write claims that contradict what we saw during ordinary player testing. Where the operator's internal data and our observations clash, the observations win and the disagreement is flagged in the review itself.
How readers can verify this
If you want to check whether the editorial position above is real or just marketing, three pieces of evidence are public. First, the rating distribution itself: across every operator currently on PayID Pokies, partner brands and non-partner brands sit on the same curve. Second, the published lists of operators we won't recommend at any rating — those are mostly partner operators we tested and pulled coverage from after support quality, cashier behaviour or licence standing slipped. Third, the change log on each review: every score adjustment carries a date and a one-line reason, and partner operators don't get a free pass on negative adjustments. If any of those three patterns stops holding over time, the place to flag it is the Contact page.
What this disclosure does not cover
Three things sit outside the scope of this page. First, this disclosure isn't legal advice on whether you can lawfully use the operators we review from an Australian address — the About page describes the position under the Interactive Gambling Act 2001 (Cth) in more detail. Second, it isn't a substitute for your own due diligence on the operator: every brand on PayID Pokies has its own terms, licence references and dispute procedures, and the responsibility to read them sits with the individual player. Third, it isn't a guarantee of operator behaviour: we test rigorously and write honestly, but operator conditions move quicker than any review schedule, so any number you read on a review page should be re-checked on the operator's own cashier before it drives a real-money decision.
Responsible gambling, restated
PayID Pokies is funded by people clicking through and signing up at operators. That funding model creates an obvious incentive for any affiliate site to push registrations, and that incentive has to be balanced honestly against the harm gambling can cause. We don't recommend gambling as a way to make money. We don't push deposits in copy. We make every review just as readable as a "do not register" verdict as a "register" one, and we keep a published list of brands we no longer cover. The Responsible Gambling page covers harm-minimisation tools and Australian support services in detail; please read it before depositing real money anywhere, with or without our review attached.
Information collected from readers who reach PayID Pokies through any of these links is described on the Privacy Policy page; the technical detail of analytics and tracking sits on the Cookie Policy page.
Questions about this disclosure
If anything on this page is unclear, the right place is the Contact page. We'll respond in writing, on the record, and keep the response on file so the same question doesn't have to be asked twice.