What is Dormant Affiliate Account?

A dormant affiliate account is a partner account that has stopped producing new activity for a defined period — commonly no new depositing players, and sometimes no logins, over three to six consecutive months. What happens next is written into the programme terms and varies more than most people expect. The consequence that matters is not the label but what it triggers. Many agreements provide that a dormant account's revenue share stops, and that the players already referred are moved to the operator's own direct channel. This is the part worth reading twice: it means an affiliate who built a tail of long-term players and then stopped publishing can lose the income from players who are still playing, because the deal was contingent on continuing to send more. Some programmes go further and forfeit any accrued balance below the payment threshold at the same time. The stated justification is administration and account hygiene, and there is something in it — an operator does not want to pay indefinitely on a relationship nobody is maintaining, and abandoned accounts are a security surface. But the clause also transfers a revenue stream from the partner to the operator at exactly the moment the partner is least able to notice. Three things are worth establishing before a break. What counts as activity, since a definition based on new depositors is far harsher than one based on logging in. How much notice is given before dormancy takes effect. And whether the account can be reactivated with its historic players attached, or only as a fresh start.