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Velobet ships Face-ID withdrawals

Small change, meaningful effect: withdrawal disputes at the operator halved in a quarter.

Ellis HartnollHead of Testing5 July 20261 min readUpdated 5 July 2026
Velobet ships Face-ID withdrawals
A withdrawal confirmed with a face rather than a password, and a dispute rate that halved.

Velobet now confirms withdrawals with Face ID or Touch ID on its app, replacing the password-and-email loop that the operator says accounted for most of its payment complaints. In the quarter since launch, the operator reports withdrawal disputes down by half and the average time from request to confirmation down from eleven minutes to under one.

The change is exactly the kind our usability score is designed to catch: a single interaction, measured on a real device, that removes friction from the part of the product operators are least motivated to improve. In our lab the full withdrawal flow on the Velobet app takes three taps and a glance. The desktop site — still the review’s main con — has no equivalent and still routes to email confirmation.

Velobet’s usability score of 9.6 is the highest in the guide and its payments score rose from 8.8 to 9.0 on the new flow. The average football margin of 4.8% remains the reason it sits fifth rather than higher; the app is the reason it sits there rather than lower.

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Written byEllis HartnollHead of Testing · 8 articles published

Ellis has priced sports markets for two bookmakers and now runs Oddsmark’s testing programme, measuring margins across forty markets a month. He writes about pricing, market rules and the arithmetic bettors are rarely shown.

All work by Ellis Hartnoll

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