No-Wagering Casinos in the UK: What the Gamble Commission Register Shows for 2026

Verified against the Gambling Commission’s public register on 7 November 2026.

The word “no wagering” is doing heavy lifting on UK casino landing pages. It sounds like a promise: deposit, play, withdraw whatever you win. The reality under a Gambling Commission licence is more precise — and considerably less generous than the marketing suggests. A wagering requirement is what the operator asks you to play through before bonus winnings become withdrawable cash. A “no-wagering” offer is built around sidestepping that step entirely. Since 19 December 2025, every wagering requirement a UK-licensed operator does set has been capped at 10x — so the gap between a wager-free offer and a standard one has narrowed, even if it hasn’t closed.

What follows is a look at how these offers are built, where the regulator draws the lines, and which of the ten reviewed brands hold the licence that makes any of it legal in Great Britain. The angle throughout: what a no-wagering offer actually costs the player, and where the fine print quietly takes it back.

How Wager-Free Bonuses Work — and Where the House Recovers the Cost

A standard deposit bonus gives you bonus credit on top of your deposit and then asks you to wager that credit (and sometimes the deposit too) a set number of times before withdrawing. The 10x cap that took effect on 19 December 2025 limits that multiplier to ten for any bonus a licensed UK casino does run — a substantial tightening from the 30x, 40x and higher multiples that were routine before. A no-wagering bonus skips the playthrough step. Whatever you win from the bonus funds (or the free spins the bonus funds came as) is yours to withdraw, subject to any max-cashout rule the operator publishes.

If the player doesn’t have to grind through a turnover multiple, how does the operator make the offer pay? Three routes, and most licensed sites use a combination:

Smaller bonus sizes. A wager-free £10 in bonus funds costs the operator roughly the same in expected losses as a £50 bonus with a 5x playthrough on a typical slot RTP — and the £10 doesn’t require the player to play 50 times the bonus before cashing out. The headline figure shrinks; the real value to the player can end up similar.

Lower max cashout. A wager-free offer frequently carries a ceiling on what you can actually withdraw — £50 from a £20 bonus, say. Anything above that figure either disappears or converts to bonus credit you then have to play through. The marketing calls this a “fair” trade. It is, at best, a partial one.

Game weighting and RTP. A wager-free bonus is typically locked to a narrow set of slots, often with RTP at the lower end of the market. The expected loss on those games is the operator’s real cost, and it gets paid whether or not the player ever withdraws.

The 10x cap does not eliminate the wagering model. It caps it. A casino that wants to give you £200 in bonus credit can still do so — it just can’t ask you to bet £6,000 before withdrawing. A no-wagering offer sits below that cap by design: it is what an offer looks like when the operator chooses not to ask for any playthrough at all.

The arithmetic matters here because the marketing rarely explains it. A “£100 bonus” with a 10x playthrough at a 96% RTP slot costs the player an expected £40 in lost wagers — the turnover is £1,000, and 4% of that is the house edge. A “£20 no-wagering bonus” on a 94% RTP slot with a £50 max cashout caps the operator’s downside sharply. Both numbers can be on the same page. Neither is the whole story.

The 10x Cap in Practice: A Worked Band

The 10x wagering cap (in force since 19 December 2025) sets the ceiling, not the floor. Here is the turnover band that the cap produces across the bonus sizes a UK player is most likely to encounter, assuming the wagering applies to the bonus amount only at a representative online slot RTP of around 96%:

• A £10 bonus at the 10x ceiling requires £100 in qualifying wagers before withdrawal. At a 2.5-second spin interval and a £1 stake, that’s roughly 100 spins, or just over four minutes of continuous play.
• A £50 bonus at the 10x ceiling requires £500 in qualifying wagers — about 500 spins at £1, around 21 minutes.
• A £200 bonus at the 10x ceiling requires £2,000 in qualifying wagers — roughly 2,000 spins at £1, or about 83 minutes (just under an hour and a half) of uninterrupted play at the minimum legal spin speed.

Those figures describe the cost of clearing a conventional bonus under the cap. A wager-free offer removes that playthrough entirely, which is the whole point — but the cap matters because it bounds how heavy a conventional bonus can still be, and it sets the reference point against which any “no wagering” claim is being made. When a casino tells you a bonus is “wager-free,” it means free of any turnover requirement, not free of the conditions (max cashout, game weighting, expiry) that almost always sit beside it.

The figures above assume a £1 spin, which is the typical stake at the low end of the UK market. The minimum legal spin speed under the auto-play ban (since 31 October 2021) is 2.5 seconds per game cycle, so spin counts translate directly to time on device.

The UK Legal Frame: What a Commission Licence Actually Requires

A no-wagering offer is only legal in Great Britain if the casino offering it holds a Gambling Commission operating licence. The Commission’s public register is the test: 139 businesses held an active remote casino operating licence as of 18 September 2026, and that register is downloadable in full from the Commission’s website. The register also lists 1,065 active and 361 white-label domain entries — a white-label domain is a site that trades under another company’s licence, so the licence holder is the parent account, not the brand on the page.

The Gambling Act 2005 covers Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales) — not Northern Ireland. The Gambling (Licensing and Advertising) Act 2014 closed the earlier loophole that allowed operators based elsewhere in the EEA to serve British customers without a UK licence. A Curaçao, Malta or Gibraltar licence is not a substitute. Section 33 of the 2005 Act makes it an offence to provide gambling to people in Great Britain without a Commission licence; the Commission’s own enforcement work includes cease-and-desist notices, payment and hosting referrals, and search-engine delisting requests.

The licence number on the register follows a fixed format: a six-digit account number, then “-R-”, then a sequence number, then a suffix. Gala Bingo, for instance, sits under licence 054743-R-330863-014, held by LC International Limited. Ladbrokes and Coral sit under the same licence number — they are different brands, not different licensees.

The Commission requires every online operator to verify a customer’s name, address and date of birth before the first deposit or any play. That requirement has been in force since 7 May 2019. Anonymous play is not possible at a licensed site, and the verification step is the same whether the bonus on offer is wager-free or not. The minimum age is 18.

Limits the Commission has set: online slots carry a maximum stake of £5 per game cycle for players aged 25 and over (from 9 April 2025) and £2 for 18-24s (from 21 May 2025). Auto-play has been banned since 31 October 2021, a spin may not complete faster than 2.5 seconds, and “losses disguised as wins” — celebratory sounds and visuals on a spin that nets less than the stake — are prohibited. There is no state-set deposit or loss ceiling, but operators must prompt a customer to set a financial limit before accepting the first deposit (from 31 October 2025).

Bonuses are tightly constrained. Credit cards have been banned for gambling since 14 April 2020 — including credit cards routed through e-wallets. Wagering requirements have been capped at 10x since 19 December 2025. “Mixed-product” bonuses, where a sports bet unlocks casino spins, are also banned under the same package. A no-wagering casino in the UK is operating inside that frame: it can offer bonus credit or free spins without a playthrough, but the offer must still comply with every other rule in the social responsibility code.

Where the Operator Set Stops and the Offshore Market Starts

The Commission’s enforcement reach is on the operator, not the player. No penalty is aimed at someone who has played on an unlicensed site. What the player loses on such a site is protection — no GAMSTOP cross-checking, no Commission complaints route, no approved alternative dispute resolution (ADR). If the offshore operator refuses to pay out, the practical recourse is the operator’s own jurisdiction, where UK consumer law does not apply.

The Commission disrupts unlicensed sites through cease-and-desist notices, payment-block referrals and search-engine delisting, but it does not have ISP-blocking power. That keeps a steady supply of offshore casinos reachable from a UK IP address, including some that market themselves as “no wagering.” The brand on the page may look UK-friendly, the currency may be in pounds, the support team may answer in English — none of that is the test. The test is the licence number on the Commission’s public register. If the operator isn’t there, none of the player-protection framework applies.

Responsible Gambling Tools on a No-Wagering Account

The responsible-gambling framework at a licensed UK casino applies to the account, not to the bonus structure. A wager-free offer does not exempt the player from the operator’s safer-gambling duties, and it does not exempt the operator from the social responsibility code in the Licence Conditions and Codes of Practice (LCCP).

GAMSTOP is the national online self-exclusion scheme, and it is a mandatory condition of every online licence (since 31 March 2020). Self-exclusion periods are six months, one year or five years; none can be cancelled early. A player who has registered with GAMSTOP cannot open a new account at any UK-licensed online operator for the duration of the exclusion — including a no-wagering casino. The exclusion applies across operators, so registering at one site closes every licensed site in the country.

Time-outs are shorter-duration breaks set directly with the operator: 24 hours, 48 hours, one week, or up to six weeks. Reality checks — pop-up reminders of how long a session has run — are also mandatory. Deposit limits (daily, weekly or monthly) are set at the account level and can be reduced immediately; increases have a 24-hour cooling-off period before they take effect, on the assumption that a player who wants to raise a limit in the heat of the moment is the player most at risk.

Financial vulnerability checks run automatically once a player’s net deposits cross £150 in a rolling 30-day window (from 28 February 2025). The check uses public data — no credit file look-ups — and may flag an account for further review. The wider financial risk assessments the Commission announced are not yet in force.

For players who need help outside the account: GamCare runs the National Gambling Helpline; GambleAware funds treatment and support services across Great Britain. Both are reachable whether or not the operator’s own tools have helped. The Commission’s enforcement work against unlicensed sites is itself a player-protection measure, since it removes some of the less accountable operators from the player’s path.

The wagering structure of a bonus does not change which tools are available. A no-wagering casino still has to offer GAMSTOP enrolment, time-outs, deposit limits and reality checks; it still has to run the vulnerability check at £150 net deposits. What changes is the player’s exposure during the bonus play itself: a wager-free bonus with a max cashout of £50 is a contained loss, while a £200 bonus with a 10x playthrough is a substantially longer stretch at the slots.

Crypto, Anonymity, and the Limits of “No Verification”

A “no wagering” offer and an “anonymous” casino are different products, and the UK market separates them sharply. A site can market itself as no-wagering only if it is licensed; a licensed site cannot offer anonymous play, because the Commission’s verification rules (in force since 7 May 2019) require name, address and date of birth to be confirmed before the first deposit or any play. Crypto deposits do not change that requirement. Bitcoin, Ether and other cryptocurrencies move on a public ledger, but they do not satisfy the Commission’s identity checks by themselves — the operator still has to verify the player’s identity out of band.

The crypto casino sub-pool — phrases like “crypto casino no wagering” and “wager-free Bitcoin casino” — reflects a real segment of the offshore market, where some operators accept Bitcoin deposits, run no KYC (Know Your Customer) on withdrawal, and offer wager-free bonuses. None of those operators hold a Gambling Commission licence. They may hold a Curaçao or Anjouan licence, which is not a substitute in Great Britain under the 2014 Act.

What a UK player gets from using crypto at a licensed site is faster settlement on the wallet side (Bitcoin confirms in roughly ten minutes; Ether in around fifteen) without any change to the verification, bonus or withdrawal rules. The Commission has not banned crypto deposits at licensed sites, but it has not endorsed them either. The practical picture at 2026: a handful of licensed operators accept crypto, the rest don’t, and no licensed operator waives the identity check for a crypto-funded account.

For players who specifically want anonymity, the licensed market has nothing to offer. The offshore market has plenty of options and no Commission oversight. The trade-off is structural, not a question of which casino you pick.

Payments and Payout Speed at UK No-Wagering Casinos

Payment methods at UK-licensed casinos cluster around a familiar set: debit cards (Visa, Mastercard), bank transfers through the Faster Payments Service, e-wallets (PayPal, Skrill, Neteller), and prepaid options (Paysafecard). Apple Pay launched in the US in October 2014 and began supporting UK-issued cards on 14 July 2015; it works at a growing number of UK-licensed operators, though not all, and depends on the player’s card issuer participating. AstroPay, founded in 2009 and headquartered in Uruguay, runs a UK entity (Larstal Limited) authorised as an electronic money institution by the Financial Conduct Authority, and operates across Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Denmark, Spain, the UK, the US and Uruguay.

Apple Pay protects card data through tokenization — the actual card number is replaced with a device-specific tokenised Device Primary Account Number, and a dynamic security code is generated for each transaction. In-store payments use near-field communication (NFC); on an iPhone with Face ID, the user double-clicks the side button; on Touch ID models, the Home button.

What no-wagering casinos don’t change: deposit and withdrawal speeds. A wager-free bonus doesn’t slow down or speed up the cashier. The Faster Payments Service, launched in 2008 and operated by Pay.UK, runs 24 hours a day, seven days a week; most transfers arrive instantly or within a couple of minutes, with occasional delays up to two hours. The Faster Payments scheme caps individual transactions at £1,000,000, though individual banks can and do set lower limits on their customers. The Bank of England oversees the system’s safety and stability and provides final settlement.

E-wallet withdrawals (PayPal, Skrill, Neteller) are typically processed within 24 hours once the operator has approved the withdrawal. Debit card withdrawals take 1-3 business days after approval, depending on the card issuer. Bank transfers through Faster Payments can be near-instant once approved, which is faster than card withdrawals in most cases. Approval itself is the variable: it depends on the operator’s internal review, which for a first withdrawal can include source-of-funds documentation.

The Gambling Commission’s credit-card ban (in force since 14 April 2020) covers credit cards directly and credit cards routed through e-wallets. Debit cards and bank transfers are unaffected. The Commission estimated that around 800,000 UK consumers used credit cards to gamble in 2018, and found that 22% of online gamblers who used credit cards to gamble were classed as problem gamblers — the underlying evidence base for the ban.

Payout speed matters more on a wager-free offer than on a conventional one, because the player can withdraw as soon as the wagering (zero) is cleared. A pending withdrawal window of 24-72 hours applies at most operators as a fraud-prevention measure; that’s the bottleneck, not the bonus terms.

Landscape: Licence Holder and Register Status

All ten brands below are listed on the Gambling Commission’s public register as of 18 September 2026. Several sit under the same parent licence — Ladbrokes, Gala Bingo and Coral all run under LC International Limited (account 54743) — so the licence number repeats across rows. The table records what the register shows for each brand. The “no-wagering casino” angle does not change the licence picture; every row is a Commission-licensed operator, and the offer structure is the operator’s commercial choice.

The cluster of brands under one licence is not a quirk of the Commission register. LC International Limited runs three of the featured domains; PPB Games Limited runs two. The white-label column is meaningful: Virgin Games runs on Gamesys Operations Limited’s licence, so the brand name on the page and the entity on the register are not the same. From a player-protection standpoint, that distinction rarely matters — the LCCP obligations fall on the licence holder, and the white-label brand inherits them. From a complaints standpoint, the licence holder is the entity the Commission will hold to account.

What the table does not show: whether any specific brand currently markets a no-wagering offer. The register records the licence, not the promotions. Promotions change weekly; the licence doesn’t. A player looking for a wager-free bonus needs to check the operator’s current promotion page — but the operator needs to be on this register for the offer to be legal in Great Britain.

Brand-by-Brand Notes

Virgin Games — White-Label Brand with a Major Licence Behind It

Virgin Games trades on the register as a white-label domain of Gamesys Operations Limited (account 38905), under remote casino operating licence 038905-R-319430-022. The Gamesys platform powers several well-known UK casino brands, and the Gamesys operation has been part of Bally’s Corporation since 2021. The white-label status means the brand identity is separate from the licence holder — the player interacts with Virgin Games, the regulator holds Gamesys to account.

Casumo — Active Domain, Independent Licence Holder

Casumo sits on the register as an active domain under Recro Limited (account 61549), licence 061549-R-336718-002. The licence number is among the more recent in the table — the higher six-digit prefix dates the account to a later cohort of Commission registrations. Recro Limited is the operator; Casumo.com is the player-facing domain. The active status means the Commission considers the domain live and properly linked to the licence.

Ladbrokes — One of Three LC International Brands

Ladbrokes runs under LC International Limited (account 54743), licence 054743-R-330863-014 — the same licence number that covers Gala Bingo and Coral. The three brands share a licence holder, a compliance framework and an enforcement record; they present as separate brands on the player side. The shared licence is a structural fact, not a marketing detail, and it means the responsible-gambling framework operates identically across all three.

Betfair — Paddy Power’s Sister Brand Under PPB Games

Betfair’s licence is held by PPB Games Limited (account 39411), licence 039411-R-319335-010. Paddy Power sits under the same licence number. The Flutter Entertainment group structure puts both brands under PPB Games for UK regulatory purposes. Both domains are active on the register.

PokerStars — Stars Interactive as Licence Holder

PokerStars runs under Stars Interactive Limited (account 39108), licence 039108-R-319334-026. The .uk domain is the one listed on the register; the older .com and .eu domains fall outside Great Britain. The licence holder is the same Flutter group entity that operates other Flutter brands, but the account is separate from the PPB Games account that covers Betfair and Paddy Power.

Gala Bingo — Bingo Brand Under LC International

Gala Bingo is listed on the register as an active domain under LC International Limited (account 54743), licence 054743-R-330863-014. The licence holder is the same as Ladbrokes and Coral — the GVC/Entain group structure means all three brands share one Commission-facing entity for the UK remote casino licence. The bingo product is distinct from the sportsbook and casino products on the other two brands, but the compliance framework is identical.

32Red — Independent Licence Holder

32Red is listed as an active domain under Platinum Gaming Limited (account 45322), licence 045322-R-324275-019. Platinum Gaming is part of the Kindred Group, which also operates Unibet and other brands under separate licence accounts. 32Red’s licence account is distinct from the Flutter and Entain accounts that dominate the rest of the table.

Coral — Third LC International Brand in the Set

Coral’s coral.co.uk sits on the register under the same LC International Limited (account 54743) licence as Ladbrokes and Gala Bingo — licence 054743-R-330863-014. The .co.uk domain is the British-facing version; the brand also operates in retail betting shops. The remote casino licence covers the online casino product only; the betting shop operations are licensed under a separate premises licence.

Sky Vegas — Bonne Terre Gaming as Licence Holder

Sky Vegas runs under Bonne Terre Gaming Limited (account 65519), licence 065519-R-339675-002. The Sky-branded gambling products sit under Bonne Terre, a separate Sky-owned entity, rather than directly under Sky plc. The licence number is among the more recent in the register, consistent with the later launch of Sky’s online casino product compared to its longer-established broadcast operations.

Paddy Power — PPB Games Licence, Shared with Betfair

Paddy Power sits under PPB Games Limited (account 39411), licence 039411-R-319335-010 — the same licence that covers Betfair. Both brands are Flutter brands; the shared licence means shared compliance, shared responsible-gambling tools, and a single Commission-facing entity.

What the Register Numbers Mean in Practice

The 139 active remote casino licence holders on the register (as of 18 September 2026) are not 139 independent operators. Several are groups — LC International, PPB Games, Gamesys, Bonne Terre — that each operate multiple brands. The 1,065 active and 361 white-label domain entries reflect that group structure more accurately: a single licence can sit behind several player-facing brands, some of which are owned by the licence holder directly and some of which run as white labels on the licence holder’s platform.

For the player, the relevant question is not “how many licences are there” but “is this brand on the register.” The Commission’s own search tool allows domain-by-domain lookup; the brand’s footer or “about” page should also carry the licence number. If the licence number on the brand’s page doesn’t appear in the Commission’s register — or appears with a status other than Active — the brand isn’t authorised for Great Britain, and none of the player-protection framework applies.

The Commission’s enforcement against unlicensed operators is on the operator, not the player. What the player gives up by playing on an unlicensed site is the protection layer — GAMSTOP, ADR, complaints route — rather than a criminal record. The trade-off is real for anyone who hits a dispute: an unlicensed operator has no UK regulator to answer to, and the player’s practical recourse runs through the operator’s home jurisdiction.

What “No Wagering” Costs the Operator — and Why That Matters to the Player

A wager-free bonus is a deliberate commercial choice, and the cost of it shows up somewhere. Three places it usually shows up:

On the bonus size. A wager-free offer is typically a smaller headline number than a conventional bonus. The operator is pricing in the expected loss without the player’s wagering to spread it. A £10 wager-free offer is not a £100 bonus minus the wagering; it is a different offer, sized to a different cost calculation.

On the max cashout. Many wager-free offers cap the amount the player can actually withdraw, regardless of how much the bonus spin wins. A £50 cap on a wager-free offer is the operator limiting its downside. It is also the player limiting their upside. Anything above the cap typically converts to bonus credit or expires.

On the game weighting. A wager-free offer is usually locked to specific slots, often at the lower end of the RTP range. The operator is choosing games where the house edge is wider, so the expected loss per spin is larger. The player is choosing among a narrower set of games than the operator’s full lobby.

The 10x cap that took effect on 19 December 2025 changed the calculus. A conventional bonus can no longer ask for the 30x or 40x playthroughs that used to be standard, so the gap between a wager-free offer and a conventional one is smaller than it was. Some operators have responded by offering more bonuses in the 5x-10x range rather than going wager-free, since the cap allows them to collect some turnover without crossing into the prohibited territory. Others have moved in the opposite direction, dropping conventional bonuses entirely and leaning on wager-free offers with tighter game lists and lower max cashouts.

The player looking at a wager-free offer should check three things: the bonus size against the max cashout (if the max cashout is below the bonus, the bonus is effectively smaller than it looks); the game weighting (are the eligible games the ones the player wants to play, and at what RTP); and the expiry (how long does the player have to use the bonus before it expires, and what happens to winnings if it expires unused). Those three factors determine what the offer is actually worth.

The Bottom Line: A Niche Within a Niche

The no-wagering casino in the UK is a commercial product wrapped in a regulatory frame. The commercial product is built around offering bonus value without a playthrough; the regulatory frame is the Gambling Commission’s licence, the 10x wagering cap, the credit-card ban, the GAMSTOP requirement, and the identity verification that runs before the first deposit.

A no-wagering offer at a licensed UK casino is legal, regulated, and constrained by the same rules as any other bonus the operator runs. The Commission does not separately endorse or prohibit wager-free offers; it regulates the bonus structure as a whole. The 10x cap is the binding constraint, and the no-wagering offer is what an offer looks like when the operator chooses to sit below that constraint.

What the player gets is a bonus without the playthrough step — and with the max-cashout, game-weighting and expiry conditions that almost always come attached. What the player gives up depends on the alternative: a conventional bonus at the same operator might offer a larger headline number with a 10x playthrough, which at a 96% RTP slot costs an expected 40% of the bonus in lost wagers. The wager-free offer removes that cost; it doesn’t remove the house edge on the spins themselves.

For players who value the simplicity of a wager-free offer — withdraw what you win, no playthrough tracking — the trade-off works. For players who measure value by raw bonus size and are comfortable with the math, a 10x conventional bonus may offer more. The register tells you which casinos are licensed; the operator’s promotion page tells you what the current offer looks like; the fine print tells you what it actually costs.

Frequently Asked Questions

Are entire UK casinos built around no-wagering play, or only single promotions?

Single promotions are the more common shape. Most UK-licensed casinos offer a mix of bonuses — some wager-free, some with a 10x playthrough at most — rather than running every offer on a wager-free basis. The 10x cap (since 19 December 2025) applies to any wagering requirement a licensed site does set; a wager-free offer sits below that cap by design.

How does a no-wagering casino make its offer sustainable without a playthrough requirement?

Three mechanisms, usually in combination: smaller bonus sizes, lower max-cashout limits on winnings, and tighter game weighting (eligible slots are often at the lower end of the RTP range). The operator’s cost is the expected loss on the bonus spins, and these three levers keep that cost in check without requiring a playthrough.

Does a no-wagering casino still set a maximum bet size while a bonus balance is active?

Often yes, though the specific figure varies by operator and by offer. The Commission’s stake limits (£5 per game cycle for players 25 and over, £2 for 18-24s) are separate from any operator-set max bet during bonus play. A wager-free bonus doesn’t exempt the player from either cap.

What deposit methods are commonly linked to no-wagering casino accounts in the UK?

Debit cards (Visa, Mastercard), bank transfers via the Faster Payments Service, e-wallets (PayPal, Skrill, Neteller), and prepaid options (Paysafecard) are the standard set. Apple Pay is accepted at a growing number of UK-licensed operators. Credit cards have been banned for gambling since 14 April 2020, including credit cards routed through e-wallets.

Can a UK player hold a no-wagering casino account alongside a standard-bonus account?

Yes, with the usual restrictions: a player cannot hold multiple accounts at the same operator, and GAMSTOP self-exclusion (since 31 March 2020) blocks new accounts at any UK-licensed online operator for the exclusion period. Outside those constraints, holding accounts at different licensed operators — some wager-free, some conventional — is permitted.

How does GAMSTOP self-exclusion apply to a no-wagering casino account?

GAMSTOP is a mandatory condition of every UK online gambling licence, and the exclusion applies to every licensed operator, wager-free or not. A player who registers with GAMSTOP for six months, one year or five years cannot open a new account at any licensed site during that period, and the exclusion cannot be cancelled early.