Lottery
Reading a Lottery Ticket Barcode
Every CStoreiQ Lottery screen that asks you to identify a pack — Confirm, Activate, Move, Inactivate, Return, Day Close — accepts the same input: scan the ITF barcode that is printed on the pack and on every individual ticket in it. This article ...
Lottery Dashboard
A single-screen overview of where the lottery operation stands right now at one store: today's sales, today's payouts, how many packs are active, what needs your attention, and one-click access to every action in the module. Open this first thing in ...
Activation Report
A historical, read-only listing of every pack that was activated (placed into a bin for sale) at a store over a date range. This is the report you pull when you need to verify activity for a lottery commission audit, troubleshoot a discrepancy with ...
Weekly Settlement
A read-and-review screen that shows the EFT amount the lottery commission will sweep from (or deposit to) your bank account each week. It rolls up seven daily closes into a single Total Net Due number and a single Due Date for each week of the month. ...
Day Close
The single most important screen in the Lottery module. Run Day Close every business day, end of shift — even on slow days with zero lottery sales. Day Close is what feeds the Weekly Settlement that determines your EFT sweep amount, and a missing day ...
Lottery Inventory
A live, read-only snapshot of every lottery pack at one store — what's in the bins (sellable), what's in the safe (not sellable), and what each is worth. This is your audit tool: it answers the questions "how many packs do we have right now?" and ...
Return Pack
Returning a pack records that the pack has been shipped back to the lottery commission and is no longer in your inventory. This is a one-way state — once a pack is returned, it cannot be re-activated, moved, or sold. Open the screen: Lottery → Return ...
Inactivate Pack
"Inactivating" a pack means pulling it off the counter back into the safe. The pack is still in your inventory but is no longer sellable. Inactivation moves a pack from a Bin back to the Safe — that is, from Active status to Inactive status. Open the ...
Move Pack
Use Move Pack to change the bin a currently-active pack lives in — without taking it through Inactivate and Activate again. The pack stays Active the entire time; only the Bin # changes. Open the screen: Lottery → Move Pack in the left navigation. ...
Activate Pack
"Activating" a pack means placing it into a physical bin on the counter so customers can buy from it. Activation moves a pack from the Safe to a Bin — that is, from Confirmed status to Active status. A pack must be confirmed before you can activate ...
Confirm Pack
"Confirming" a pack means receiving it from the lottery distributor into your safe. A confirmed pack is in your inventory, but it is not yet on the counter — customers cannot buy from it until you also activate it. This is the first thing you do ...
Add Game
Before you can confirm a single pack, the game that pack belongs to must exist in CStoreiQ. A game is defined once per company per state and reused for every pack of that game you ever receive. This screen is where you add one. You'll only use this ...
Lottery Module Overview
Read this article once before you use the other Lottery screens. It teaches you the few terms used everywhere else: pack, bin, safe, online, instant. What is a "pack"? A pack is one full book of scratch-off tickets you receive from the lottery ...
Lottery
Manage every lottery pack in your store — from the moment it arrives to the weekly payment with the lottery commission. This section shows you how to use the Lottery menu in CStoreiQ. Open any article below to learn one specific task. What can I do ...