Every casino bonus in Canada arrives with a multiplier attached, and the multiplier is the only part of the offer that decides whether the money is reachable. A 325% headline tells you nothing. A 35x condition, a C$2 ceiling on your stake and fourteen days on the clock tell you everything. This guide does the arithmetic in Canadian dollars, with 7Bit Casino’s published figures used as a worked example because the operator prints enough of its own numbers to follow all the way through.
What a wagering requirement is
A wagering requirement is the total value of bets a casino asks you to place before bonus funds, or anything won with them, can be withdrawn as cash. It is measured in turnover, not in losses and not in profit. Stake C$1 fifty times and you have generated C$50 of turnover even if your balance never moved, because the same dollar can be wagered again every time it comes back.
That single sentence is the whole concept, and the rest of this page is arithmetic built on it. The reason the arithmetic matters is that casinos quote the multiplier and leave the four variables that determine its real size unstated in the same breath: which figure the multiplier is applied to, which games count, how large a single bet may be, and how long you have. Change any one of those and the same 35x becomes a different offer.
The two bases, and why they are not the same offer
The first thing to find in a set of bonus terms is the base. A multiplier is applied either to the bonus alone or to the deposit and the bonus added together, and the difference is exactly a factor of two whenever your deposit matches the bonus.
Take a C$100 deposit on a 100% match, which gives you C$100 of bonus credit and a C$200 playable balance. On a bonus-only base, 35x applies to the C$100: thirty-five lots of C$100 is C$3,500 of turnover. On a deposit-plus-bonus base, the same 35x applies to C$200 and you owe C$7,000. Nothing in the headline changed. The work doubled.
In the terms themselves the language is usually short enough to miss. “Wagering requirement of 35x the bonus amount” is the first kind. “35x (deposit + bonus)” or “35x the bonus and the qualifying deposit” is the second. If a document names only the multiplier and never the base, treat it as the worse of the two until support puts the answer in writing, because the base is where the surprise lives.
7Bit’s bonus terms set 35x on the bonus and apply the same multiplier to winnings from free spins. That is the friendlier of the two structures. The figure below holds for a bonus-only base in the left column and the deposit-plus-bonus version on the right, on a C$100 bonus matched by a C$100 deposit.
| Multiplier | Turnover on a C$100 bonus | Turnover on C$100 deposit plus C$100 bonus |
|---|---|---|
| 20x | C$2,000 | C$4,000 |
| 25x | C$2,500 | C$5,000 |
| 30x | C$3,000 | C$6,000 |
| 35x | C$3,500 | C$7,000 |
| 40x | C$4,000 | C$8,000 |
| 45x | C$4,500 | C$9,000 |
Read the bottom row against the top one. A player who believes the base is the bonus and finds out later that it included the deposit has not been handed a slightly harder condition. They have been handed more than double the one they budgeted for, which on a 45x offer is C$9,000 of stakes against a C$100 credit.
Game weighting, and what 5% really does
The multiplier sets the target. Weighting decides how fast your stakes approach it. Every dollar you bet is credited toward the requirement at a percentage that depends on the game, and the percentages are published as a table in the bonus terms rather than announced on the promotion.
7Bit’s weightings, as published on 20 October 2026, are blunt: slots count at 100%, table games at 5% and live games at 0%. Those three numbers do more to shape the offer than the 35x does.
| Game type | 7Bit weighting | Credited per C$100 staked | Stakes needed to clear C$3,500 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Slots | 100% | C$100 | C$3,500 |
| Table games | 5% | C$5 | C$70,000 |
| Live dealer games | 0% | C$0 | unclearable |
The middle row is the one worth sitting with. At a 5% rate, the C$3,500 that a slot player covers in C$3,500 of spins takes a blackjack player C$70,000 of hands. The requirement has not changed by a cent. The arithmetic simply divides it by 0.05, which multiplies it by twenty, and twenty times a four-figure target is a five-figure one. A player who prefers cards and claims a slots-weighted bonus has accepted a condition they will not finish.
That is the general shape across the Canadian market, by the way. Low weighting on table games is near universal, because the house edge on good blackjack is under 1% and a casino cannot afford to count those stakes at full value against a bonus. The figure varies - 5%, 10%, sometimes 20% - and it is always in the terms rather than the advertisement.
Why a 0% weighting is a closed door, not a slow one
A zero is a different category of term from a low percentage, and it deserves its own paragraph because readers routinely treat the two as the same thing.
At 5%, clearing is punishing but mathematically possible. At 0% it is impossible by construction. No quantity of live roulette, live blackjack or game-show content moves the counter at all, because each dollar staked is credited with zero dollars, and zero multiplied by any number of hands is still zero. Play live games with a bonus balance active and you are spending real money against a requirement that stays exactly where it started.
There is a second trap behind the first. Some operators treat play on a 0% game while a bonus is live as a breach rather than as wasted effort, and treat it as a breach and cancel the credit along with every dollar won from it. 7Bit’s terms do not go that far on weighting alone, but they do forfeit the bonus and its winnings if you withdraw your deposit before the requirement is met. The lesson is the same either way: if your preferred game sits at 0%, the honest move is to decline the bonus and keep the balance as cash, which stays yours. Canadian players should also know that a slice of 7Bit’s live floor is closed to them anyway by the studios themselves, which is a product limitation rather than a bonus one.
The maximum bet cap, converted into spins
The multiplier, the base and the weighting give you a dollar target. The maximum bet rule tells you how long it takes to get there, and it is the constraint most readers never cost out.
While any part of 7Bit’s welcome package is being wagered, the largest bet permitted is C$2 per spin. Bonus money from the Monday reload offer runs on a C$10 ceiling instead, which is five times more generous and still a cap. A single stake above the limit can be grounds for voiding the bonus, so the ceiling is not a guideline you can stretch on a hot streak.
Divide the turnover target by the cap and you get the number of spins. Divide that by fourteen days and you get what the offer asks of your evenings.
| Bonus credited | Turnover at 35x | Spins at the C$2 ceiling | Spins a day over 14 days |
|---|---|---|---|
| C$40 (minimum qualifying deposit) | C$1,400 | 700 | 50 |
| C$800 (first-deposit cap) | C$28,000 | 14,000 | 1,000 |
| C$1,200 (second-deposit cap) | C$42,000 | 21,000 | 1,500 |
| C$8,000 (fourth-deposit cap) | C$280,000 | 140,000 | 10,000 |
The top row is comfortable. Fifty spins an evening for a fortnight is an ordinary amount of play, and a C$40 bonus cleared at C$2 a spin is a real possibility rather than a theoretical one.
The bottom row is the reason this table exists. Maxing the fourth tier means putting up C$8,000 yourself to receive C$8,000 of credit carrying C$280,000 of turnover. At the C$2 ceiling that is 140,000 individual spins. Even at a brisk five seconds each, with no pauses, no menus and no interruptions, 140,000 spins is roughly 194 hours at the screen, or just under fourteen hours a day for every one of the fourteen days available. The requirement is not difficult. It is arithmetically out of reach, and the cap is what puts it there. We do not recommend the fourth-deposit bonus to anyone playing at a C$2 ceiling, and the full tier-by-tier breakdown sits on our costing of the welcome package.
The break-even multiplier
So far everything has been counting. This section is the part that decides whether an offer is worth accepting at all, and it comes from one idea: every dollar you stake has an expected cost, and the cost is set by the game’s return.
If a slot returns 96% of stakes over a very long run, then across that run it keeps four cents of every dollar. Four cents in a hundred is the expected cost of putting a dollar through the machine. Turn over C$3,500 at that rate and the expected cost of the turnover is C$3,500 multiplied by 0.04, which is C$140.
Now set that against what the bonus pays. A C$100 bonus on a bonus-only base at 35x costs about C$140 of expected losses to unlock C$100 of credit. Expectation says the offer is worth about minus C$40 before a single cap or clock is applied to it. The general form is short enough to keep in your head:
- House share = 100% minus the return, which is 4% on a 96% slot
- Expected cost = turnover x house share, and turnover = multiplier x base
- So the point where a bonus stops paying for itself is 1 divided by the house share
At a 96% return, 1 divided by 0.04 is 25. That is the break-even multiplier: a bonus-only requirement of 25x is roughly a wash, anything below it carries positive expectation and anything above it is a cost you are paying for the privilege of playing. On that reading, 35x is already on the wrong side of the line, and the 40x to 45x figures that appear on some promotion pages are a long way past it.
| Assumed return | Cost per C$100 staked | Expected cost of C$3,500 turnover | Break-even multiplier |
|---|---|---|---|
| 94% | C$6.00 | C$210 | 16.7x |
| 95% | C$5.00 | C$175 | 20x |
| 96% | C$4.00 | C$140 | 25x |
| 97% | C$3.00 | C$105 | 33.3x |
| 98% | C$2.00 | C$70 | 50x |
Two honest caveats, because this figure is easy to over-read. The first is that expectation is a long-run average and not a forecast of your fortnight. Variance dominates any single session by an enormous margin: plenty of players clear a 45x requirement and withdraw, and plenty lose a bonus balance on a 20x one inside an hour. The arithmetic tells you which side of the table the odds sit on, not what will happen to you. The second is that it assumes you complete the wagering. Most bonus balances are lost before the counter reaches zero, which means the realistic outcome of a high-multiplier offer is usually neither the bonus nor the expected cost but simply a spent deposit.
And there is a practical gap in applying any of this at 7Bit specifically: no return-to-player figure is published for any individual game or category on the site. On 20 October 2026 we went looking, and came away with nothing. A player doing this sum has to assume a category average - somewhere between 95% and 96.5% for mainstream slots - and treat the result as an estimate rather than a measurement.
The caps that sit on top of everything
A wagering requirement limits when you can withdraw. A maximum cashout limits how much, and it is applied after the requirement has been satisfied. The two are independent, which means a cap can make a rollover irrelevant: you can finish the turnover, hold a large balance, and still be paid a fixed small amount.
| Cap | 7Bit’s published figure | What it limits |
|---|---|---|
| Registration free spins | C$100 | Total payable from no-deposit spins; the excess is forfeited |
| Free-spin bonuses generally | C$200 | Maximum cashout unless a specific offer states otherwise |
| Cash bonuses | 10x the bonus | A C$100 bonus pays a maximum of C$1,000 |
| Comp-point conversions | 10x | The same ceiling on balances built from loyalty points |
| Monday and Wednesday spin offers | C$1,000 | Maximum win from those specific free-spin sets |
| Welcome Back spins | C$600 | Maximum cashout on that offer, with C$400 on the spins themselves |
Put a cap and a requirement together and the shape of the offer becomes clear. A set of free spins producing C$900 of winnings, carrying 35x wagering and a C$200 ceiling, asks for C$31,500 of turnover to deliver C$200. That is not a bonus with a condition attached. It is a C$200 prize with C$31,500 of homework, and the only reason to attempt it is that you enjoy the spins. Our page on how 7Bit splits its 250 welcome spins works through where each cap lands.
The clocks, and why time is a cost
Deadlines convert a requirement into a rate. The same C$3,500 is a different proposition over fourteen days than over ninety, because a shorter window forces a higher stake, a higher stake runs into the bet ceiling, and a ceiling you cannot exceed turns the deadline into the binding constraint.
The clocks published in 7Bit’s terms, taken from the 20 October 2026 capture:
- A bonus expires 14 days after it is credited if the wagering is not covered, and the balance goes with it.
- Each free-spin set must be activated within 24 hours of being granted.
- An activated set must be played out within one day.
- Weekly cashback must be claimed within 3 days of being offered.
- A deposit-limit increase takes effect only after a 24-hour wait, which is a protection rather than a restriction.
Fourteen days is middling by market standards. Thirty is common, seven is aggressive, and ninety exists on a handful of low-multiplier offers. What makes fourteen tight here is the interaction with the C$2 ceiling, which is why the spins-a-day column in the table above is the number to check before accepting a tier rather than the multiplier on the banner.
Your own money is spent before the bonus
The order in which a casino draws down a mixed balance changes what happens when a session goes badly, and 7Bit states its order plainly: real money is spent first, bonus money second.
Follow a C$100 deposit and a C$100 bonus through that rule. Your playable balance reads C$200, but the first C$100 of net losses comes out of your own funds. When your deposit is gone the bonus is still sitting there, still subject to 35x, and still imposing the C$2 ceiling on every bet you place. You are now playing bonus credit under bonus restrictions with none of your own money left in the account as a cushion.
The consequence is the part readers miss. A player who wants to stop, take what is left and cash out cannot simply withdraw, because withdrawing before the requirement is met forfeits the bonus and anything won with it. The bonus does not politely step aside when your deposit runs out. It governs the account until it is cleared, expired or surrendered, and surrendering it is sometimes the correct decision.
Rollover with no bonus at all
There is one category of wagering term that catches people who never touch a promotion, and most Canadian players do not know it exists. It attaches to the deposit rather than to any offer.
Clause 9.14 of 7Bit’s terms requires every deposit to be staked 3x on slots, or 10x on table and live games, before the money can leave the account, and reserves the right to cancel payments until that is done. No bonus is involved. Decline every code, take no spins, and the condition still applies.
Costed out: a C$500 deposit carries C$1,500 of slot play, or C$5,000 if you spent the evening at a table. A C$3,000 deposit carries C$9,000 or C$30,000 respectively. If you deposit, land something on an early round and request a payout straight away, the request can sit until the turnover is covered. The full clause and the rest of the cashier rules are set out on the deposit and payout conditions in full, and what happens to a request once it is accepted is covered in our walk through the stages of a payout.
Clauses of this kind are not rare offshore and they are rarely advertised. They exist to stop a casino being used as a currency-conversion or payment-routing service, which is a legitimate aim, but the practical effect on an ordinary player is a hold on their own funds that nothing in the sign-up flow mentions.
When two of a casino’s published pages disagree
A reader checking 7Bit’s figures on 20 October 2026 ran into a contradiction worth describing, because the general lesson applies to every casino you will ever read.
The bonus terms specify 35x. The promotions page, live on the same day, says bonuses “should be wagered 40-45 times” and quotes “x45” on no-deposit VIP spins. Those are not the same condition. On a C$100 bonus-only base the gap between them is C$3,500 and C$4,500 of turnover, and on a deposit-plus-bonus base it widens to C$9,000.
Which one governs? The terms document, as a matter of how these agreements are written: the bonus terms are the contractual text you accept, and a marketing page is a description of it. We have asked for nothing and received nothing, so we cannot tell you which figure a support agent would quote against a live balance, and 7Bit does not publish an answer to the discrepancy. What we can say is that the habit this teaches is the right one. Before accepting any offer anywhere, open the terms page, find the multiplier there, and ignore the number on the banner. If the two disagree, screenshot both and keep them, because a dated capture of the page you relied on is the only evidence a player ever has.
The six numbers to find before you accept
Everything above reduces to a short reading exercise. Open the terms, find these six values, and you can price any offer in under five minutes.
- The multiplier. From the terms document, not the promotion. Compare it against the break-even figure for the return you expect.
- The base. Bonus only, or deposit plus bonus. This is a factor of two on a 100% match and it is the most commonly missed value on the list.
- The weighting. The contribution rate for the games you actually play. A 0% entry means your game cannot clear the offer; a 5% entry means it will take twenty times the stakes.
- The maximum bet. Divide your turnover target by it. The answer is a number of spins, and the number of spins divided by the days remaining is what the offer is really asking of you.
- The maximum cashout. Bonus value is capped by this, not by the match percentage. A C$200 ceiling resizes any windfall down to C$200.
- The expiry. Count the days, then check the result against the spins-per-day figure from step four. If those two numbers do not fit together, nothing else about the offer matters.
A seventh value is worth a glance if you are playing at a loyalty-led casino: the rate at which turnover earns points, because a long rollover does generate loyalty value even when the bonus itself is a losing proposition. At 7Bit that rate is one redeemable point per C$30 wagered, which is a small return and is costed properly on the loyalty program page.
Frequently asked questions
How do I work out the turnover on an offer?
Multiply the multiplier by the base. A 35x condition on a C$100 bonus is C$3,500 of stakes; the same condition on a C$100 deposit plus a C$100 bonus is C$7,000. Then divide by the weighting of the game you intend to play, as a decimal, to get the stakes you will actually have to place.
Does 35x on a C$100 bonus mean C$3,500 or C$7,000?
It depends entirely on the base, and the terms have to say which. 7Bit applies its multiplier to the bonus, so C$100 of credit carries C$3,500. Where a set of terms measures the multiplier against your stake and the credit combined, the same offer costs C$7,000 on a 100% match.
Do blackjack and roulette count toward rollover?
At 7Bit, table games are credited at 5%, so C$100 of hands moves the counter by C$5. Clearing a C$3,500 requirement that way takes C$70,000 of stakes. The percentage varies between casinos but a heavy discount on card and wheel play is close to universal, and each operator buries its own figure in the bonus document rather than the banner.
Why does a live dealer game contribute nothing?
Because the published weighting is zero, and zero credited per dollar means the requirement never moves however many hands you play. Live content at 7Bit sits at 0%. A bonus cannot be cleared on it at any volume, so money staked there during an active bonus is simply spent.
Is one oversized spin enough to cost me a bonus?
It can be. A maximum bet rule is a condition of the offer, not a target, and casinos commonly treat one breach as grounds for cancelling the credit and its proceeds outright. 7Bit sets that ceiling at C$2 per spin while a welcome bonus is being wagered, with C$10 on Monday reload bonus funds.
What does the break-even multiplier mean in plain terms?
It is the multiplier at which the turnover’s expected cost matches the credit you are handed. Divide 1 by the house share of each dollar staked: at a 96% return that share is 0.04, so the figure lands on 25x. Below it an offer carries positive expectation on paper; above it, the play costs you money. It describes averages, never a single session.
Can a maximum cashout cap make the rollover pointless?
Yes, and this is the most common way a cleared bonus disappoints. Caps apply after the wagering is finished, so C$900 of free-spin winnings under a C$200 ceiling pays C$200 regardless of how much turnover you generated. Check the ceiling before the multiplier if the offer is a spin set.
What happens to bonus funds after 14 days?
They expire, together with anything won from them that has not been converted to cash by completing the wagering. Fourteen days is 7Bit’s published window for its bonuses; free-spin sets run on much shorter clocks, with 24 hours to activate and one day to play out.
Is there rollover on a plain deposit with no bonus attached?
At 7Bit, yes. Clause 9.14 of the terms requires each deposit to be turned over three times on slots, or ten times at the tables and in the live rooms, before withdrawal becomes available. A player who declines every promotion is still covered by it, which makes it the least-known wagering term on the site.
Which figure applies when a casino publishes two different multipliers?
The terms document is the agreement you accept, so that is the figure to budget against. 7Bit’s bonus terms say 35x while its promotions page says 40 to 45 times, and the operator publishes no explanation of the gap. Capture both pages with the date before you deposit, so you can show what you relied on.
Sources
- 7Bit Casino bonus terms: the 35x multiplier and the base it applies to, the slots-100% / table-5% / live-0% weightings, the C$2 and C$10 bet ceilings, the 14-day expiry, the 24-hour and one-day free-spin clocks, the C$100 and C$200 cashout limits and the 10x cap on cash bonuses. Pulled from a Canadian ISP on 20 October 2026, read in full.
- 7Bit Casino promotions page: the competing “40-45 times” figure and the “x45” quoted on no-deposit VIP spins, captured the same day for comparison against the terms.
- 7Bit Casino terms and conditions, clause 9: the three-times-on-slots and ten-times-on-table deposit condition, and the operator’s power to hold a withdrawal until that condition is met.
- Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario, Registrar’s Standards for Internet Gaming: the benchmark used here for how prominently a regulated Canadian operator must present significant bonus conditions.
- Responsible Gambling Council and ConnexOntario: Canadian prevention research and the 24/7 support line on 1-866-531-2600, for readers who recognize chasing a rollover as a reason to stop.