Payments Editor · Montréal QC · 41
Véronique Sauvageau spent eight years on a Desjardins caisse e-Transfer dispute desk in Montréal before she started writing about payments, which means she has read a great many transfers that went somewhere their sender did not intend.
Her interest in casino cashiers is narrow and specific: what the payment page claims, what the terms say underneath it, and where the two disagree. She does not publish payout timings she cannot verify and she does not score operators out of ten, on the grounds that both invite you to trust a number instead of a document.
"An e-Transfer is a claim on a message, not a transfer of a card balance. Once somebody has claimed it, it is theirs. That is worth understanding before you send one to a company you have known for four minutes."
Every operator on this site is assessed the same way and none of it involves a stopwatch. The cashier is opened first to see whether it names its payment rails or hides them behind a generic button. The full terms are then read before registration, because terms that are only reachable from inside an account are themselves a finding.
The welcome offer is transcribed exactly as published rather than paraphrased, which is why some of the labels on this site are longer and less tidy than the ones on other sites. A trimmed bonus reads better and tells you less. The balance currency is read off the cashier, and where an offer is staged across several deposits the entry says so, because a package total presented as a first-deposit figure is the commonest way these numbers mislead.
Terms change constantly and this site will sometimes be behind them. Corrections are welcome, are made, and are dated. The contact page reaches a real inbox.