It started with a prop firm that had flawless marketing — polished website, influencer endorsements, aggressive social ads. We bought an account, passed the challenge, and waited for our first payout. It never came. Support tickets were ignored. Then the firm quietly changed its withdrawal rules via a buried T&C update.
After that experience, we spent months doing the research we should have done before handing over our money. We read through Trustpilot filtering specifically for payout complaints. We went deep into Reddit threads — r/Forex, r/Futurestradingpro, independent Discord communities. We hunted for payout screenshots, withdrawal receipts, and first-hand trader accounts. We read rule books line by line, looking for consistency rules, drawdown gotchas, and vague language designed to trip traders up at payout time.
What we found was that most comparison sites ranked firms by who paid for placement, not by who actually paid traders. The affiliate incentive was pointing in exactly the wrong direction. The firms most likely to have payout problems were often the ones with the biggest affiliate budgets.
PropFirmVerify exists to be the opposite of that. We wanted one place that ranked firms on what actually matters — whether they pay on time, whether their rules are fair and clear, and whether real traders recommend them. Commission is disclosed. Scores are never for sale.