Refer a Friend at Richroyal and What the Reward Is For

A referral scheme turns an existing customer into a sales channel. That is a plain description rather than a criticism, and it is the description most useful to a reader deciding whether to take part. The reward is paid for an outcome, not for a gesture, and the conditions attached to that outcome are where the whole format becomes interesting. This portal is independent, receives no referral revenue from any reader, and describes the mechanism from the outside.

How the mechanism is built

An existing account generates a personal link or code. Somebody who has never held an account on the platform registers through it, verifies their identity, makes a qualifying deposit and stakes a defined amount. Only when all of those steps are complete is a reward credited, usually to both sides. Registration alone triggers nothing, and neither does a deposit that is never played. The threshold that matters is the same 20 € qualifying deposit that governs the rest of the promotional structure on this platform, described on the bonus overview.

The conditions that decide whether anything is paid

Condition	Detail
Invited person is new	never previously registered on the platform
Identity verified	document check completed before any credit
Qualifying deposit	at least 20 €
Minimum play	a defined amount staked, stated in the terms
Separate household	shared address, device or payment instrument disqualifies both
Reward form	normally bonus funds, so 40 times within 14 days applies

The last row is the one that changes the value most. A reward described as a fixed euro figure but credited as bonus funds carries the full standard obligation, meaning a turnover requirement of forty times the amount inside a fortnight with a 5 € ceiling on every round. The arithmetic is worked through on the wagering page.

Why household referrals are excluded

From the operator side, a referral between two people sharing an address, a device or a card is indistinguishable from one person opening a second account to collect a reward from themselves. Detection systems therefore treat the pattern as self-referral by default, and the standard consequence is closure of both accounts with both balances forfeited. This is not a grey area and it is not negotiated afterwards, so the sensible reading is that the scheme is for genuinely separate people or for nobody.

The part that is not about money

There is an ethical question here that a terms page will never raise, and it belongs in a portal that claims independence. Under the Glücksspielstaatsvertrag in force since 1 July 2021, an operator holding a German permit runs virtual slots at a maximum stake of 1 € per spin with at least five seconds between spins, without autoplay and without jackpots, provides a panic button that suspends an account for 24 hours, reports every deposit to LUGAS where 1.000 € per month is shared across all German-licensed platforms, and queries OASIS, the nationwide exclusion register maintained by the Regierungspräsidium Darmstadt, before allowing a session to start. That register is what makes a self-exclusion effective across every licensed casino, arcade and bookmaker at once for a minimum of three months. Richroyal is licensed in another European Union member state and does not appear on the whitelist published by the Gemeinsame Glücksspielbehörde der Länder, so a person invited here arrives without any of it. Someone who has blocked themselves through OASIS can still register. Accepting a payment for that introduction is a decision worth making consciously, particularly where the invited person is a friend rather than an abstraction.

Practical points for anyone taking part

Read whether the reward is cash or bonus funds before sending a single link. Check the minimum play requirement, since that is the step most invited people never reach. Do not refer anyone in the same household. Do not present the platform as licensed in Germany, because it is not, and the whitelist is public and checkable. And if the person being invited has ever mentioned wanting to cut down, the right link is not a referral code but the BZgA campaign Spielen mit Verantwortung, its Check dein Spiel self-test, or a Suchtberatungsstelle in their Bundesland. The tools available inside an account are listed on the self-exclusion page.

Questions and answers

When is the referral reward actually paid?

Not at registration. The invited person normally has to verify their identity, make a qualifying deposit of at least 20 € and stake a defined amount before anything is credited to either side. The reward is therefore a payment for an active depositing customer rather than for an introduction, which is why so many referrals never pay out.

Can two people in the same household refer each other?

Standard terms exclude referrals between accounts sharing an address, a device or a payment instrument, because that pattern is indistinguishable from self-referral. Attempting it usually ends with both accounts closed and both balances forfeited, which is a considerably worse outcome than simply not participating.

Does the reward arrive as cash or as bonus funds?

Usually as bonus funds, which means the platform standard obligations attach to it: 40 times turnover inside 14 days with a 5 € ceiling on every round. A reward described as a fixed euro amount is therefore worth considerably less than the number suggests unless the terms explicitly say it is credited as cash.

Is there a legal issue with inviting someone in Germany?

The regulatory duties sit on the operator rather than on a private person, and there is no personal permit to obtain. What matters is the ethical side: the platform is not on the GGL whitelist, so an invited friend receives none of the German protections, and the person inviting them is being paid to bring them there.

Read the referral conditions

Author: Malte Brenninger, editor for gambling regulation and payments. 18+.