Is an affiliate program still paying? How to check

If a casino or sportsbook affiliate program has gone quiet — a late payment, a dead-looking site, an unanswered email — you need to know quickly whether it's a blip or a program that's degrading, going direct, or closing. Here are the concrete signals, how to verify each, and how to stop relying on your gut.

Signs a program may be degrading or closing

• The terms / commission page changed. A quietly edited RevShare percentage, a new tier structure, or a removed "no negative carryover" line is often the first hard evidence. The page is public and dated — you just have to be looking.
• The page started 404-ing. A terms or affiliate-signup page that suddenly returns "not found" (404) or "gone" (410) is a strong closure signal.
• "Going direct" / "no longer accepting affiliates" language. Programs sometimes announce this on the page itself before they tell anyone.
• Payments slowing or method dropped. A longer payout schedule, a higher minimum, or a withdrawal method (Skrill, Neteller, PayPal) disappearing from the terms.
• Licence trouble. A revoked or suspended operator licence in a key market puts both your players and your payments at risk.
• Community reports. Other affiliates flagging non-payment on the GPWA forum or in Telegram/Discord groups — valuable, but it lags the actual change.

How to verify, step by step

1. Check the public terms / status page first. Compare it to what it said when you joined. If you don't have an old copy, the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine sometimes has one — but it won't have captured a change from last night.
2. Look for closure or restriction language. Search the page for "closed", "no longer", "going direct", "restricted", "suspended".
3. Confirm the page even loads. A 403 bot-wall is not a closure; a 404/410 often is. Open it in a normal browser.
4. Check your account dashboard and last statement. A short or missing payment, or a balance reset, alongside a page change is a serious combination.
5. Cross-reference the community. If others report the same, it's not just you.

Get told instead of checking

Automated change detection snapshots a program's public page on a schedule, diffs it, and alerts you when the substance changes — including when the page starts returning a 404. You can see this running on the live feed: ten real public casino-affiliate programs, each with its last-checked time and current status (we even flag the ones that only serve a JavaScript shell, honestly, rather than pretending we can read them fully).

It can't see everything — an affiliate-portal-only change behind a login, or a payment that's simply late without any page edit, won't show up. It's a published-change radar, not a payment auditor. But for the large class of problems that do appear on a public page, it turns "I should check" into "I was told."