One-way money
The method where money travels in one direction only
A prepaid voucher cannot receive a withdrawal, and that limitation is also the only honest argument for using one. This page explains what the one-way design does to a casino account, what it does not protect against, and why the ceiling has to be fixed before the purchase rather than after it.
A payment method defined by what it cannot do
Most payment methods are described by their advantages, and this one is better described by a restriction. A prepaid "voucher" (value bought in advance and spent once) is value bought in advance, carried as a code, and spent once. It has no account behind it, no balance to return money to and no relationship with the person holding it, which is what a lawyer means by a "bearer instrument" and what makes the whole method behave the way it does. Everything useful and everything awkward about the method follows from that single design, because a thing that cannot receive money cannot be used in the direction that money usually travels.
A voucher cannot be overdrawn; it cannot be charged twice, it cannot be stolen by a merchant that stores it, and it cannot receive a single dollar of winnings, and a reader who understands the restriction first will use the method well. And we would rather set it out than sell around it. If you meet it for the first time when you try to withdraw, you will have an unpleasant afternoon, and the unpleasantness is entirely avoidable.
The disclosure, before the method as always
These pages carry paid links, the buttons say so, and the operators below are ordered by the authority that licensed them and then alphabetically (the same rule we apply everywhere), and the design of a "voucher" (value bought in advance and spent once) is not something a commission can alter.
We have not bought vouchers to test the operators here, and where a limit or a fee belongs to a particular "voucher" brand or a particular shop we have not supplied a figure for it.
What happens on the way in
The sequence is unusually short. Value is bought at a shop or online, a code is issued (a string of digits printed on the slip or sent by mail), the code is entered at the casino "cashier" (the screen where money goes in and out), and the balance is credited in the currency the account is kept in (the one point at which this method behaves like every other); the voucher is then spent and has no further existence; two consequences sit inside that sequence.
The money left the reader's control at the "point of sale" rather than at the "cashier" (the screen where money goes in and out). It is the point of the method, and no account number, card number or banking credential has entered the "transaction" at any stage, which is the other point.
The charge, where there is one, is taken at the purchase rather than at the deposit, and it is published by the voucher company rather than by the casino (in a schedule on its own site). A reader comparing methods should look for it there (on the voucher company's own site), because a "cashier" that shows no fee for a voucher is telling the truth about its own side of the transaction only.
What happens when the money tries to come back
Here the method stops. The stop is absolute rather than a matter of policy; no operator we read makes an exception to it, and there is nothing in a spent voucher to credit (the code is consumed, and the instrument ceases to exist), so an operator paying a withdrawal has to pay it somewhere else.
Paying it "somewhere else" means a bank account or a card the operator has already verified, which its terms call a "verified payment method" (a route it has seen identity documents for). The practical sequence is therefore the opposite of what a reader using a voucher for privacy might expect. The deposit required no identity and the withdrawal will require a full one: a document, an address, and usually a statement showing the account in the reader's own name.
The identity check belongs to the licence rather than to the payment, and the field it fills in is the one every authority names "source of funds", and every authority in our index imposes it. A reader who intends to use a voucher should know that before the first deposit rather than after the first win. The money is not trapped, and it will not move until the account is verified.
A deposit with a ceiling?
Captain Cooks Casino
MGA · Kahnawake · AGCO in Ontario
Landing page: the operator’s Canadian home pageLanding page named in the operator's programme link sheet, 14 October 2026. We publish no amounts.
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A second limit sits behind the first one and is easier to miss. A "voucher" is issued in fixed denominations, which means the amount is chosen from a short list rather than typed into a box, and a reader who wanted to deposit thirty-seven dollars will deposit twenty-five or fifty instead. On the way up that is a nuisance, because it rounds a deposit in the operator's favour, and on the way down it is the mechanism doing exactly what it was bought for, because a list with a lowest value on it is a list with a floor under the decision.
The third thing a reader should check before buying one is whether the operator credits the full "face value" of the voucher, since a "processing fee" (the charge the cashier takes for handling the code) taken at the deposit turns a twenty-five dollar voucher into a balance of twenty-three or twenty-four. Every operator in our index states that figure somewhere in the cashier, and none of the ones we could read states it next to the voucher logo, which is a reasonable place to look for it and not where it is kept.
The use the restriction is genuinely good for
There is one thing a voucher does that no other method on this market does, and it is worth saying plainly because it runs against the grain of a commercial page, and a voucher turns a limit into a physical fact (money spent at a till, on a different day).
Every other method leaves the ceiling in the hands of the person at the keyboard. A card can be used again, a bank transfer can be repeated, a "wallet" (a balance held by a third company) can be topped up. Each of those decisions is taken in the same session and the same mood as the play that prompted it.
A voucher bought for a fixed amount on a different day, in a shop, by somebody who was not in the middle of a session, cannot be increased without leaving the house, and that is the only ceiling on this market that holds when it is tested! That is the most useful sentence on this page, and it is not an argument for depositing more than the voucher holds!
A ceiling you cannot raise at midnight is worth more than any offer on this page.
The limits of the method and of what we could check
A voucher is not available at every operator in our index and we could not confirm the "cashier" contents of several, because the brands on the Games Global "platform" (the software that holds the games and the account) decline requests from outside Canada. The full index records those entries as unverified rather than filling them in, and nor is the method free of the currency question.
A voucher bought in Canadian dollars and spent at a casino whose "ledger" (the book in which the operator keeps the balance) is kept in another currency is converted inside the casino, exactly as a transfer would be, the one-way design saves the second crossing only because there is no second crossing to make, which is a saving in the same sense that a locked door saves a key.
What a reader can establish himself, in one visit to a cashier and without spending anything, is whether a voucher appears in the list at all and which route the operator names as its "withdrawal method". Both are visible before the first deposit, and both are worth more than any page written about them from outside the country.
Golden Tiger Casino
MGA · Kahnawake · AGCO in Ontario
Open Golden Tiger CasinoCommercial link · 19+ (18+ in AB, MB, QC) · operator’s terms apply · checked 21.10.2026
Grand Mondial Casino
MGA · Kahnawake · AGCO in Ontario
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Zodiac Casino
MGA · Kahnawake · AGCO in Ontario
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Questions readers ask
Can I withdraw winnings to a prepaid voucher?
No, and no operator pretends otherwise: a voucher is a bearer instrument that carries value in one direction. A withdrawal has to come back by another route, which means the account will need a verified bank account or card before any money leaves it.
Does a voucher keep me anonymous at a casino?
Not to the casino. The purchase of the voucher may be anonymous at the shop, and the gambling account behind it is subject to the operator's identity checks exactly like any other, because those checks belong to the licence and not to the payment method.
Is a voucher a good way to limit what I spend?
It is the only method on this market that makes a ceiling physical rather than voluntary, and that is a genuine argument for it. The limit works because the money is spent at the shop rather than at the cashier, and a limit that has already been paid cannot be raised in a moment of enthusiasm.
By the Canadian Dollar Casinos editorial team · Last updated October 2026 · Online since 2012
