PFG verifies a prop firm payout only when a completed transfer can be connected to an account PFG bought and tested, the exact product and stage, the payout request and a retained receipt. A dashboard badge, social post or payment certificate can support part of that chain. None proves the whole outcome alone.
As of today, PFG has verified zero payouts. No purchase-to-payout desk test has been completed at any firm we cover, so payout reliability is unscored everywhere and every letter on the site is Preliminary. A missing payout score does not hold a letter down; only a completed test that goes badly can do that. This page sets the standard a test has to meet; the results, when there are any, are published separately.
What a verified payout must connect
Verification is a chain. A missing link limits the conclusion.
Account
The purchase, identity, product, tier, market and tested account must refer to the same route.
Request
The record must show the eligible stage, request date, requested amount and operator response.
Receipt
The transfer record must show that money reached the destination and reconcile with the settled amount.
The purchase-to-receipt evidence chain
- PFG buys the account and preserves the checkout, product and governing rules.
- A named tester records the account identifiers, milestones and any stage transition.
- The tester records payout eligibility, the request and every material operator response.
- The received transfer is reconciled with the request, deductions, method and destination.
- Our team attests to the completed test and the retained artifacts.
What screenshots, certificates and on-chain records prove
A screenshot can show the state of a dashboard at a single moment. A certificate can show that an operator generated a document. A bank, payment-provider or blockchain record can show a transfer between identified endpoints. Verification still requires a reliable link from that artifact to the tested account and payout request.
An on-chain transaction is useful when the asset, network, address, amount and time can be reconciled. It does not prove how the balance was earned, whether another trader received the same treatment or whether future requests will be paid.
A payment image is not a reliability rate
One completed test supports one observed outcome under the rules and dates recorded. PFG does not turn it into a claim that every eligible request is paid or that the same result will occur later.
Amount and timing are measured from defined events
PFG records the point at which the account became eligible, when the request was submitted, when the operator reached a decision and when the transfer arrived. Those clocks answer different questions. A firm can review a request quickly while the payment method settles later, or publish an eligibility schedule that delays when a request can begin.
The amount record separates gross eligible profit, the requested amount, contractual split, deductions and amount received. A mismatch is investigated instead of rounded into a successful result.
Delayed, denied, disputed and refused outcomes
A test does not disappear when the result is unfavorable. PFG preserves the operator’s stated reason, the rule version, the account history and the tester’s response. A delay remains in progress until receipt, denial or abandonment establishes an endpoint. A denial records the rule or discretion invoked. A dispute records both positions without presenting the tester’s account as a final adjudication.
If a firm refuses to process or explain a qualifying request, that refusal can be a publishable outcome when the request and contact trail are complete. An unfinished test or inaccessible account is not labeled as a completed payout failure without the necessary link.
How verification affects a review
A completed purchase-to-payout desk test with a received transfer is what clears the no verified payout evidence marker a firm carries until then. A reported payout policy, trader-submitted proof or operator certificate can inform the page at its evidence tier, but it cannot substitute for PFG’s completed test. See PFG’s evidence tiers.