Question 1

Is rent-to-own cheaper than a SaaS iGaming platform?

Accepted Answer

At low GGR, a white-label can be cheaper to start - the upfront cost is low and the revenue share feels manageable when the numbers are small. The crossover happens faster than most operators expect. At €500K GGR a 15% share is a line item. At €5M it’s your biggest cost, and it grows every month your business improves. With DigerRGS, six live games run on a single 2 CPU / 8 GB instance at roughly $500/month on day one. That number tracks actual usage, not your revenue. By the time most operators reach mid-market scale, the fixed infrastructure cost has paid for itself and at term end, you hold an asset, not a recurring invoice.

Question 2

Do I actually get the source code and IP?

Accepted Answer

Yes, in full. At the end of the term, the source code, the game math, the configuration, and the IP transfer to you - no royalties, no licence fee, no ongoing dependency on Digicode to keep the lights on. In practice that means your own engineers can read, modify, and extend the codebase without asking anyone. It also means the platform appears on your balance sheet as a capital asset, which reads differently in a funding round or an acquisition than a SaaS subscription ever will. For operators in regulated markets, it also means your audit trail, your player data, and your RNG records are yours to produce - no support ticket, no waiting on a vendor’s compliance team.

Question 3

Can I run just one module instead of the whole suite?

Accepted Answer

Yes, and that’s the point. The RGS, GDK, Backoffice, History, RNG and Operator Gateway are independent microservices: they don’t require each other to run. Most operators start with the module that’s costing them most: usually the game server or the payment layer. You own that piece, leave everything else in place, and expand from there when it makes sense. There’s no forced migration, no big-bang cutover, and no deadline to adopt the full suite. The architecture is designed so that each module you own reduces your dependency on the vendor ecosystem, without requiring you to replace the parts that are still working.

Question 4

Is it cloud or self-hosted?

Accepted Answer

Either, and the choice is yours to make based on your compliance requirements, not ours. The platform is cloud-native - TypeScript, NestJS, PostgreSQL, Redis, Kubernetes and deploys on GKE, EKS, or AKS depending on your preference. If your licensing requires data residency in a specific jurisdiction, it runs on-premises or in your own private cloud with the same architecture. Observability is built in: OpenTelemetry, Jaeger, Prometheus, Grafana, and Loki so your team can see exactly what’s running and how it performs. No opaque infrastructure, no shared tenants, no calls to a vendor to find out why your uptime dipped.

Question 5

How does certification work if I reskin or change RTP?

Accepted Answer

Reskins are pure configuration - the visuals, the branding, the seasonal themes and they never touch the certified math engine, the RNG, or the win logic. Swap the look; the certification holds. RTP and volatility variants work differently but are almost as efficient: you certify the base game once in full (say, 96% RTP), and each additional RTP tier - 92, 94, 96, 98 - plus each volatility profile rides through as a bundled gap certification off that original bundle, not a fresh build. A single base game can fan out into 16 deployable variants from one full certification. The only thing a reskin can touch that triggers any re-certification is player-facing regulatory copy (game rules, paytable wording) which triggers a narrow minor-gap certification, not a full restart. We tell you that before you start, not after.

Question 6

Who is rent-to-own not right for?

Accepted Answer

Pre-revenue operators testing whether a market is real. If you don’t yet know whether players in a given jurisdiction will convert, a white-label saas platform gives you the speed to find out without committing to infrastructure ownership. The same applies to teams without internal technical oversight, running an owned stack means someone on your side needs to understand what they’re running, even with a Digicode engineering bench available. Short-term experiments and single-market pilots where you expect to exit within 18 months are also better served by a rental model. The signal that rent-to-own is right for you is straightforward: when the revenue share starts showing up as a meaningful line on your P&L, and when the thought of owning the asset is more appealing than the thought of another renewal conversation.

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