Step 1: Check the payment provider's own sources first
For any claim involving a payment provider like POLi, we start with that provider's own official material — its public-facing site, merchant documentation, and operational status page. This establishes whether the provider itself is real, operating, and what it says about its own service, before we look at any specific merchant.
Step 2: Check the casino's own cashier page directly
For claims about a specific casino, we go to that casino's own deposit or cashier section directly, rather than relying on a logo strip, a footer badge, or a third-party summary. We look for the payment method named explicitly and, where possible, attempt to see the actual login or redirect flow a method triggers, since a generic bank-transfer form and a genuine open-banking redirect are easy to conflate from the outside.
Step 3: We do not rely on other affiliate sites
We treat other review and affiliate sites' claims about payment-method acceptance as unverified by default, because we've found that information on this specific topic is frequently copied, templated, or simply never rechecked after publication. A competitor listing a casino as accepting a method is not, on its own, evidence we'll repeat.
Step 4: Mark unverifiable claims explicitly
Where we cannot find or reproduce evidence for a claim — for example, we could not verify that any currently licensed online casino accepts POLi deposits — we say exactly that, using a clearly labelled "not currently verified" status rather than silence, a vague hedge, or a confident-sounding guess. We would rather publish "we couldn't confirm this" than publish something wrong with confidence.
Step 5: Re-check periodically
Payment integrations, provider agreements, and casino licensing all change over time. We periodically revisit pages that make availability claims and update the "last updated" date to reflect when we most recently checked. A claim that was accurate when we checked it can become outdated later, which is also why we avoid naming specific casinos as current recommendations — a static claim about a changeable fact ages badly.
Where this fits with the rest of our standards
This methodology sits underneath everything else we publish — see our broader editorial policy for how we handle writing and corrections generally, and our about us page for who's behind this site. For responsible-gambling resources unrelated to payment verification specifically, see our responsible gambling page.