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Casino game aggregation and integration: connecting hundreds of game providers to your platform

Published Sep 23, 2026Facts checked: Sep 23, 2026

Short answer

Hundreds of game providers reach an operator's platform in one of three ways: through a rented aggregator that exposes them behind one API, through direct integrations built one provider at a time, or through a split, with an aggregator for the long tail and direct connections for the providers that carry most of the revenue. Whichever route you take, the work that decides the outcome is on your side: one internal wallet contract, a repeatable pipeline for each new provider, certification data per market in the catalogue, and a daily reconciliation against every provider's own report.

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How do hundreds of providers reach a platform?

Aggregators sell breadth through a single contract and a single integration.

Hub88's directory entry describes "Tens of thousands of games, hundreds of studios, dozens of HubMarket partners" behind "just one API"[2]. SOFTSWISS lists "40,000+ casino games via a single API integration" from "300+ game providers" through its Game Aggregator[1].

Slotegrator's FAQ states: "We do NOT charge minimum monthly payments for game content. The client is only required to pay the revenue share."[3] SoftGamings publishes no prices on its products page: products lead to "Get a quote", and one is sold "by contacting our consultants"[4].

Aggregator, direct integrations or a split
Rented aggregatorDirect integrationsSplit
Time to a large catalogueOne integration exposes the aggregator's catalogue[1][2]One integration per providerAggregator catalogue first, direct connections added over time
Commercial modelRevenue share on content; Slotegrator states it charges no content minimum[3]Your own agreement with each providerBoth
Where the wallet contract livesThe aggregator's API, which your wallet implementsEach provider's API, adapted to your internal contractYour internal contract, with the aggregator as one more adapter
DependencyOne supplier between you and all contentNone beyond each providerReduced for the providers you connect directly
Engineering loadLowest at startHighest: adapter, tests and certification per providerGrows with the number of direct connections

A split lets an operator start with an aggregator's catalogue and add direct connections where the terms justify it. It works only when the aggregator is treated as one adapter behind your own internal contract, not as the contract itself; otherwise replacing it later means rewriting the wallet. What the aggregators publish about price and terms is on SOFTSWISS alternatives, EveryMatrix alternative and SOFTSWISS vs EveryMatrix.

What does the pipeline for one new provider look like?

Connecting hundreds of providers is less a single project than a production line. Each provider passes the same stages, and the line is measured by how long a provider takes from signed agreement to live in a market.

One provider, from agreement to live
StageOutputWhat goes wrong
Agreement and market listSigned terms and the jurisdictions where each game may be offeredGames offered in a market they are not approved for
Documentation and sandboxAPI specification, credentials, test environmentSpecification and sandbox behaviour disagree
AdapterAuthentication, amount formats, error codes and calls mapped to your internal contractProvider-specific logic leaks into the wallet
Provider test scenariosThe provider's own certification cases passed and kept as regression testsScenarios passed once and never re-run
Catalogue importGame IDs, categories, devices, return-to-player and certification data per marketMissing certification references discovered at a regulator's request
Staging with real flowsLaunch, bet, win, rollback and free rounds on test accountsRollbacks and late wins never exercised
Go-live per marketGames enabled market by marketEverything switched on at once
ReconciliationDaily comparison of your ledger with the provider's reportDifferences fixed by hand and never counted

The wallet side of this, with sessions, idempotent callbacks, rollbacks of unseen transactions and rounds that close after the session, is covered step by step in the game-provider aggregation layer. This page covers the programme around it.

Where does certification data belong?

Game content is certified, and regulators ask which certificate stands behind each game a player used.

Brazil's regulator states that every online game must be certified and that, from 1 January 2025, fixed-odds betting operators may offer only online games sent via Sigap and certified by the five certifying entities authorised by the SPA; games that do not pass certification cannot be considered legal[5].

The SPA's own index of legislation lists Ordinance SPA/MF 300/2024 as setting the requirements for authorising the entities that certify betting platforms and online games, and Ordinance SPA/MF 1.207/2024 as setting the technical requirements for the operation and approval of online games and live game studios[6].

In engineering terms, the catalogue stores certification references per game, per version and per market, and the lobby filters on them. A game without a valid reference for the player's market is not shown. GLI-19 v3.0, the Gaming Laboratories International standard for interactive gaming systems[7], is the kind of document a lab tests the platform side against; games are certified separately, which is why the catalogue, not the wallet, has to carry that data. How the same rules reach the rest of the platform is on Brazil sportsbook platform requirements.

What changes when you build for hundreds, not ten?

  • One internal contract. Session, balance, debit, credit, rollback, round close and a fixed error set. Providers adapt to it; the wallet never learns a provider's dialect.
  • Adapter templates and contract tests. A new adapter starts from a template and must pass the same internal test suite as every other before its own provider scenarios run.
  • Per-provider monitoring. Callback latency, error rates, repeated calls, open rounds by age and daily reconciliation differences, visible per provider, so one failing studio is found before players report it.
  • Per-provider kill switch. Disable one provider's games in one market without a release.
  • Catalogue as data. Game metadata, certification references and market availability are imported and versioned, not typed into an admin screen.
  • Load sized for the launch, not the average. A new studio's headline game on launch day is a burst the wallet sees first; scalability lessons from iGaming platforms covers what breaks.

What should you ask an integration team?

  1. 1.How long does one new provider take from sandbox to live, and what is the slowest stage?
  2. 2.Is the aggregator an adapter behind your internal contract, or does the wallet speak its API directly?
  3. 3.Where are certification references stored, and how does the lobby use them per market?
  4. 4.What does the daily reconciliation compare, and what is a normal number of differences?
  5. 5.Which provider scenarios are kept as regression tests, and when do they run?
  6. 6.Who owns the adapters and the internal contract when the work ends?

Who is this not for?

  • An operator on a white label, where the provider controls integrations: the platform question comes first, on moving from a white label to your own platform.
  • An operator that needs a small catalogue from one aggregator and has no plans to go direct: the aggregator's own integration guide is enough.
  • A studio looking to distribute its games to operators: that is the aggregator's business, not an operator-side integration.

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Related on this site: iGaming platform case study and custom casino platform development, where the platform around the integration layer is set out.

Frequently asked questions

Three kinds of company. Aggregators rent you their catalogue behind one API; platform vendors include content inside a platform they own; engineering teams build the integration layer inside your platform and connect an aggregator, direct providers or both. Choose by who should own the wallet contract and the provider agreements.

It depends on your volume and on each provider's terms, and few are published. Aggregators charge a revenue share on content; Slotegrator states it charges no content minimum[3]. Direct agreements remove the intermediary but add engineering and certification work per provider.

No public benchmark exists; it depends on the provider's API, its test scenarios and certification in each market. Measure it yourself as time from signed agreement to live in the first market, and track which stage is slowest.

If the aggregator is one adapter behind your internal contract, you replace the adapter, re-run the tests and re-import the catalogue. If your wallet speaks the aggregator's API directly, the change reaches the wallet.

Yes. Brazil's regulator, for example, states that every online game must be certified and that from 1 January 2025 only games sent via Sigap and certified by the SPA-authorised entities may be offered[5], so the catalogue has to carry certification data per game and per market.

Product and company names are trademarks of their respective owners and are used only to identify their products and published documents. No vendor named here reviewed or endorsed this page. The regulatory passages are an engineering reading of the SPA's own pages, read on 2026-09-23, not legal advice, and nothing here says which operators hold authorisations.

Sources

  1. [1]SOFTSWISS, SOFTSWISS homepage (Game Aggregator figures). Vendor's own page · checked Sep 23, 2026
  2. [2]iGaming Business, Directory entry for Hub88 (the aggregator's own description as quoted by the directory). Third-party source · checked Sep 23, 2026
  3. [3]Slotegrator, FAQ (minimum payments for game content). Vendor's own page · checked Sep 23, 2026
  4. [4]SoftGamings, Products (no published prices). Vendor's own page · checked Sep 23, 2026
  5. [5]Secretaria de Prêmios e Apostas, Ministério da Fazenda (Brazil), Documento de perguntas frequentes — apostas de quota fixa (header reads "Atualizado em 1º/10/24"; certification of online games), Oct 1, 2024. Regulator · checked Sep 23, 2026
  6. [6]Secretaria de Prêmios e Apostas, Ministério da Fazenda (Brazil), Legislação — apostas de quota fixa (the regulator's own index, page header "Atualizado em 21/09/2026"; descriptions of Ordinances 300/2024 and 1.207/2024). Regulator · checked Sep 23, 2026
  7. [7]Gaming Laboratories International, GLI Standards (GLI-19 Interactive Gaming Systems v3.0). Specification · checked Sep 23, 2026

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