7StarsPartners affiliate program review

Overview

7StarsPartners is a multi-brand affiliate program that has run since 2016 and presents nine casino and sportsbook brands under one account. Its public pages state the brand count rather than the brand names — the set becomes visible inside the platform after approval, and the program’s own tournament rules name Rabona and LibraBet among them. The jurisdiction is stated plainly on the about page: Curaçao. The program runs two affiliate platforms in parallel, a NetRefer portal and a ReferOn panel, each with its own login and its own sign-up page, so the panel a new affiliate lands in depends on which door they came through.

Commission structure

The revenue-share ladder is published in full, which is rarer than it should be, and the agreement gives that page contractual force: Revenue Share Commission is defined as a percentage of Net Revenue “as detailed on” the commissions page. Casino climbs by first depositors — 45% for the first 15, 50% from 15 to 25, 55% above 25, and a 60% VIP tier on unique conditions. Sportsbook is a separate and much flatter ladder: 30% up to 4 first depositors, 32% from 5 to 10, 34% from 10 to 25, 35% above 25, and 45% at VIP. CPA and hybrid exist as defined terms in the agreement, but both apply only where an insertion order or a negotiated plan says so, and no rate card is published for either.

A worked example

Take EUR 6,000 of casino net gaming revenue in a month. At the entry tier the arithmetic is 6,000 x 0.45 = EUR 2,700; cross 25 first depositors and the same revenue pays 6,000 x 0.55 = EUR 3,300. The gap between the verticals matters more: the identical EUR 6,000 on the sportsbook ladder pays between EUR 1,800 and EUR 2,100. A site that sends sports traffic and reads the casino headline will plan against a number it cannot earn. Model both against your own mix in the commission calculator, and read the structures side by side in revshare vs CPA vs hybrid.

What Net Revenue means here

The headline rate is the easy half. The agreement defines Net Revenue as real-money bets less ten listed items: player winnings, bonuses, Deductible Costs, chargebacks and refunds, Administrative Fees, card and payment-processor charges, monies attributed to fraud, returned stakes, bad debts “as we determine in our sole discretion”, and licensing fees, gaming taxes and duties. Deductible Costs is itself defined widely enough to include progressive jackpot contributions, game royalties and end-user verification fees. Forty-five percent of a base that has had supplier costs and gaming tax taken out of it is not forty-five percent of gross. This is the single clause worth reading before the rate.

Negative carryover

The answer is published and it is the good one. The about page promises payments “devoid of negative carryover”, and clause 8.12 puts it in the contract: if aggregate Net Revenue in a calendar month is negative, the revenue share for that month is set to zero. There is one carve-out, and it is narrow — where the negative balance is attributable to fraud or to a breach of the agreement, the program reserves the right to set it off against future payments until it clears. An ordinary losing month does not follow the account. Background: negative carryover.

Sub-affiliates

A sub-affiliate scheme exists and has its own section of the agreement, but the two clauses that describe the money do not read consistently. Clause 19.4 states that sub-affiliates “will receive commission from us which is 5% from his referral account’s cost”; clause 19.5 then makes the referring affiliate’s share a percentage agreed with the company and recorded in the back office. Read together, the second governs: the rate is negotiated, not fixed, and 5% is the figure the terms name. Two further limits are worth knowing before building anything on it — second-generation referrals earn nothing, and relatives or staff may not be enrolled as sub-affiliates. The arithmetic of what a second tier is actually worth is in sub-affiliate programs explained.

Payments

Everything is paid in euros. The threshold is the term to plan around: if a month’s total is under EUR 500, nothing is paid and the balance rolls into the next month until it reaches EUR 500 or more. Payment follows the end of each calendar month against an invoice, with undisputed invoices settled within 20 days, which matches the program’s stated commitment to pay by the 20th. The payment method is whichever one is chosen on the application form; no list of supported methods is published. A self-billing question is worth asking at onboarding — see getting paid, taxes and invoicing.

Licensing and law

Curaçao is the only jurisdiction the program names, so none of the nine brands should be assumed licensed for a regulated European market. A licence says where the brands may operate, not where the program accepts affiliates, and the practical consequence for a publisher is that a Curaçao brand cannot lawfully be promoted to players in a market that licenses its own operators. The agreement itself is governed by Maltese law with exclusive jurisdiction in the Maltese courts, and clause 8.15 removes commission on players from any territory that becomes prohibited for a brand mid-term.

Our verdict

A program that publishes more than most: a full ladder for both verticals, a contractual no-carryover position, and payment clauses specific enough to argue with. The costs are on the other side of the ledger — a wide Net Revenue definition, a EUR 500 threshold that a small site will take months to clear, no published attribution window, and an offshore licence that closes the regulated markets. It reads best for a casino-weighted site with enough volume to clear the threshold monthly. Ask three things before the first link goes up: the attribution window, the payment method, and whether the brands are pooled into one balance. Vocabulary for that conversation is in affiliate tracking and postbacks explained.