Settlement

Settlement grades tickets against official results feeds and credits balances — automated within minutes on data-covered markets, manual on the long tail.

Why it’s a trust metric

Settlement speed and correction handling (mis-grades, result amendments, dead-heat rules) generate outsized review sentiment; slow or wrong settlement reads as intent even when it’s ops debt. For affiliate tracking, settlement is the revenue event — sports NGR postbacks fire on settled outcomes, so unsettled ante-post markets hold commission in limbo for months. Programs should document how open-bet revenue timing hits statements; affiliates should ask.