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license: cc-by-4.0
language:
- en
pretty_name: Greenfelt Payment Method Reality Index
size_categories:
- 1K<n<10K
tags:
- payment-methods
- online-casinos
- ireland
- withdrawals
- consumer-research
configs:
- config_name: default
  data_files: payment-method-reality.csv
---

# Greenfelt Payment Method Reality Index: listed, observed and timed casino payment methods in Ireland

For every casino on Greenfelt's roster (53 casinos), three separate layers of payment evidence, kept apart on purpose:

1. **Listed by the operator**: what the casino's own public pages list.
2. **Seen in our cashier**: what Greenfelt's logged-in Irish cashier showed.
3. **Timed by us**: a deposit or withdrawal Greenfelt actually made.

The order is how strongly each is known. It is not a score and not a ranking, and the layers are never merged into a single "available" value.

- Index page: <https://greenfelt.ie/payment-method-reality/>
- Press page: <https://greenfelt.ie/press/payment-method-reality/>
- Citable archive (DOI): <https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23695873>
- Publisher: Greenfelt.ie, Ireland. Dataset v1.0, methodology v1.0, generated 2026-10-16.

## Coverage at this version

- Operator information read: 51 of 53 casinos (2 not captured).
- Cashier observations: 107 records at 49 casinos. A casino without one is "not yet observed", never "not available".
- Timed withdrawals: 113 at 51 casinos. Credited deposit tests at 28 casinos.

## Files

| File | Description |
|---|---|
| `payment-method-reality.csv` | One row per casino x method x direction, all three layers |
| `payment-method-reality.json` | The same matrix, every operator observation, every published cashier observation, the discrepancies and the dictionary |
| `payment-method-reality-README.txt` | Full data dictionary |

## Absence is not one thing

- **Not captured**: we could not read the casino's public information.
- **Nothing published**: we read it and it publishes no usable method information.
- **Not listed**: a published list omits the method.
- **Not yet observed**: we have not looked at that cashier yet.
- **Not shown**: we looked and the method was not shown. This describes that account at that moment; it is not "the casino does not offer it".

## Rules

- Records are append-only. A change is a new observation; history is kept.
- Only a native-route timed withdrawal counts as "timed" on a rail. A card push or a bridge into an account is reported as its route.
- Recalled cashier observations are labelled recalled and carry no screenshot.

## Disclosure

Greenfelt.ie is an affiliate publisher and earns commission from some of the operators in this dataset.

## Licence and citation

CC BY 4.0. Cite as: Greenfelt.ie, "Payment Method Reality Index", dataset v1.0, methodology v1.0. https://greenfelt.ie/payment-method-reality/ (DOI 10.5281/zenodo.23695873).