Negative carryover can zero out 2-3 months of RevShare earnings

Negative carryover can zero out 2-3 months of RevShare earnings

The advice: ignore the contract boilerplate, focus on the RevShare percentage. The single most expensive line is usually "negative carryover."

The mechanic, seen in ~10 deals where it bit:
— NGR can go negative in a month when big winners cash out (a whale hits a jackpot, the operator's net is red).
— With negative carryover, that red number rolls into next month's balance — you earn $0 until the cohort climbs back above zero.
— In one tracked case a -$8,000 NGR month wiped the next two positive months entirely; the affiliate earned nothing for 11 weeks.

The correction: a 40% RevShare with negative carryover can pay less than a 30% RevShare without it. The clause to hunt is "no negative carryover" (a.k.a. monthly reset to zero). With it, your downside per month is capped at $0; without it, variance from a single whale can eat a quarter.

▸ Small affiliates with few players are most exposed — one whale dominates a thin cohort.

Benchmark of the day: no-negative-carryover is worth more than ~8-10 points of RevShare % on a low-volume cohort.