Selling lottery tickets is a great way to increase traffic in your business and boost your bottom line – all the while contributing to funding education in New York. Lottery retailers can be any type of retail business with a loyal customer base. Lottery retailers receive a 6% commission on Lottery sales. The Lottery also provides all point-of-sale materials, play cards, Instant ticket display units and the expertise of a dedicated Lottery Sales Representative to assist you every step of the way at no cost to you. Want to know more?

• Download and print a retailer application here. (You will need Adobe Acrobat reader to view and print the form. To download Adobe Acrobat, click here.) You can contact any one of our Regional Sales offices, listed here, or email us at retailers@lottery.state.ny.us to have a form sent to you.
  
  
• If you’re currently a Lottery retailer and are selling your business, first contact your regional office (the list is here) for information on the Change of Ownership process – DO NOT have the new owner complete a new application form.
  
  
• All applications are reviewed by regional Lottery staff to determine the feasibility of your proposed location.

• A Lottery representative and manager from your region will visit your business and evaluate the location.
  
  
• To make things easier please have the following documents available for the Lottery representative:
  Quarterly Tax Return or cash register receipts,
  Certificate of Authority (from the Tax Department), and
  New York State Liquor Authority License (if applicable).

• Your business is reviewed for your customer count, location, other products available for sale and indications of a successful thriving business.
  
  
• If your business is approved, you will be required to open a checking account specifically for Lottery sales and to attend Orientation and Terminal training sessions.
  
  
• As part of the licensing review, you will be fingerprinted for a background check. The fingerprinting fee ($95 for each person owning over 20% of the business) will not be charged to you until your Lottery terminal is up and running.

• You will first attend an Orientation session (scheduled by the Regional office) where you will discuss the rules and regulations of the Lottery as well as learn how to sell Lottery products in the most effective and efficient way.
  
  
• Since Lottery terminals require a dedicated data line circuit, your data line is ordered by the Lottery after you have attended the orientation session and completed all application documents. There is a one-time installation charge for the data line circuit ($515) that is not charged to you until you are installed and have sold at least $5,000 in Lottery products.
  
  
• The Lottery terminal also requires a dedicated electrical power circuit (120 Volt, 20 AMP) in your business.
  
  
• Once the data circuit has been installed for your Lottery terminal, you will attend a Lottery scheduled terminal training class to show you how to operate the Lottery terminal. After you complete your training, your equipment will be installed and you’re ready to sell.

• You’re now a member of the New York Lottery network of retailers – watch your bottom line grow!