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Enter your license number and Lone Star Retail Buddy does the rest — what games are trending at your store and statewide, what's about to close, what winners you've sold, and much more!
Games ending, pack return deadlines, and key updates that could save you money.
What you carry today versus what's selling in stores like yours—see which games to add and which ones to reconsider.
Which games are picking up and which are going quiet — at your store, and across Texas.
Every lottery retailer around you on a map, so you know who you are really competing with.
Every prize claimed on a ticket you sold. Put your track record on display.
Each store includes a login for whoever runs it. At no charge.
One, or twenty. You only pay for what you set up.
We find each store and pull its data. Nothing else to enter.
Each store comes with a login for whoever runs it.
The countdown is your return deadline — not just a calendar date. Any Confirmed or Activated packs still in your possession when the game ends settle automatically and are charged to your account. Get them to your LSR before that date and you are not charged for them.
How the dates work. Most games get a Pre-Call period of about 30 days, when the Lottery gives public notice so players can still play. Then a Call date is set, which starts a 45-day window for your LSR to collect remaining tickets. The End of Game date falls 45 days after the Call date and closes the game — that is the date this panel counts down to.
You do not have to wait for your representative’s next scheduled visit. If a game is closing, you are responsible for returning those packs to your LSR, and you may contact them to arrange a pickup rather than waiting for a scheduled call. We begin alerting you three days in advance, which allows time to arrange that pickup.
The “Return” button. Select it once you have handed the packs to your LSR. The alert is dismissed, the countdown is replaced with a completion mark, and we stop escalating it in the final three days.
Recorded in error? Select “Undo Return”. Once a game is marked, the button changes to Undo Return and puts it straight back. No information is lost.
Records are kept separately for each store. If a game sits at more than one of your locations, the button shows how many you have done — Return · 1/3 — and opens a list where you tick the stores you have handled. Untick to undo. You will keep being reminded about any store still outstanding, because those are separate packs.
This only records what you did. It changes no date and no count. This is your own record, not a notification from the Texas Lottery. The game still appears, the End of Game date is unchanged, and if you have not actually returned the packs they will still be charged.
After it closes. Selling tickets for a closed game violates your license. You can still validate winning tickets for 180 days after the close, which is the redeem date shown on each game. A closed game moves to Recently closed under Closure Watch for 30 days — see that section below.
This is not an official confirmation. It is separate from Closing Soon above, which only shows games the Texas Lottery has actually announced. Low-risk games are deliberately left out.
The groups mean:
Games at low risk never appear here. They are filtered out before the list is built, so anything you see has already cleared that bar.
The groups come from ticket sell-through, how long the game has been out compared with similar games, and how fast prizes are being claimed. A game moves between them as those change โ a game at Medium today can be Imminent within two weeks.
Matched by your store’s license number, not by which games you carry. This is all-time, not a recent window.
You will see games you no longer stock. Retailers cycle through games, and a winner sold in 2022 was still sold at your store. This list is a permanent record of what has been won there, so it does not change when your rack does.
Checking one game. Choose a game from the dropdown โ the list is whatever that store carries โ and we mark which nearby retailers also sold it. One game at a time, and the answer is simply yes or no. We do not show what a competitor stocks overall, or how much of anything they sell.
“Sold it” is not quite “stocks it”. The answer comes from the Texas Lottery’s monthly sales figures, so a store that carries a game but sold none of it last month shows as not having it, and one that sold out three weeks ago still shows as having it. Treat it as an indication, not a real-time inventory check.
Which month. We use the most recent month the state has published, shown next to the result. That is usually last month rather than this one, because the current month is still being counted.
Leaving the dropdown on Any game shows every nearby retailer with no game filter at all.
The badges. A game here carries one of three badges:
What puts a game on this list. Any one of these on its own:
Or two of these together, because one on its own may reflect nothing more than a slow two weeks:
Why closures do not need a second reason. A quiet week might mean nothing. A closing date is not a guess — the game is leaving, so you need the replacement now rather than after something else goes wrong too.
Every announced closure is listed. Forecast ones are capped at five, strongest first — a long list of maybes would bury the ones with real dates.
Why sales drops count in dollars, not just percent. A game selling $1,000 that drops by half has lost $500 โ one pack. A game selling $9,000 that drops a third has lost $3,000. The second matters more to you even though the percentage is smaller, so we look at both.
What we ignore. Games selling too little for the maths to mean anything, games that have dropped to zero (you have stopped carrying them, which is not the same as declining), and the current month, which is always incomplete.
The suggested game is always the same price as the one winding down, is selling well across Texas, still has top prizes remaining, and is not one you already carry. If nothing at that price stands out, we say so rather than suggest something weak.
These are observations, not recommendations.
At Your Stores shows the same view scoped to your own locations, so you can see where a game is doing better or worse for you than it is statewide.
Why 30 days. Two things outlive the close date. Any packs you still held have now been settled and charged, so you may want to match a charge on your invoice against the game that caused it. And customers keep walking in with winning tickets — those stay redeemable for 180 days, and each closed game shows its own redeem date.
No action is required. This is a record, not a task, which is why it sits under Watch rather than Act Now. The deadline has already passed.
After 30 days it drops off. If someone brings in a winning ticket months later, scan it at your terminal, which will confirm whether it pays.
1 — Game data, refreshed every morning. We read the Texas Lottery’s published game information daily: game names, prices, statuses, closing dates and top prizes remaining. Nearly every panel uses it.
2 — Sales data, refreshed weekly on Mondays. Retailer sales are published by the state once a week, and we pull them as soon as they land. That is their schedule, not ours. Only My Dispenser, Top 5 Picking Up and Top 5 Slowing Down use it, because only those compare your sales against anything.
A panel showing both markers uses both sources. Hover a marker to see its date without scrolling, or tap it to jump to the line at the bottom of the page.
Why a date and not “today”. When you are deciding whether to trust a number, a real timestamp tells you something — “2 hours ago” does not tell you whether that was before or after the morning update.
If sales data is still being refreshed you will see “refreshing — ready Monday” rather than a blank space, so you can tell a quiet week from a missing feed.
You will see these on Trending At Your Store and on the statewide Trending Games and Slowest Movers.
The number is always statewide. It is the total views for that game over the last 30 days across every player in Texas — the same number in every panel. It is not views near your store, and not unique people: one player checking a game five times counts five times.
It shows what players are curious about, which is not the same as what is selling. Sales tell you what already happened; views can tell you what is coming. A game climbing in views while its sales are flat is worth considering for your rack.
Counts only appear once a game passes 10 views in that period.
Within a week of a check-in you can open Talking points: a printable sheet of what to hand back, what is worth asking about, and what is selling elsewhere that you do not carry.
Press Complete once they have been and the schedule moves forward on its own.
Enter the number under My Stores and we look the store up for you, so you never type an address.
If we cannot find recent sales history for a license, that is normal for a store new to the lottery, and you can still continue by entering the details yourself.
When you remove a location, that slot is held for 14 days before it can be assigned to a different license. You can put the same store back at any time during the hold.
This keeps your records stable and stops a slot being reassigned by mistake. If you have genuinely sold or closed a store and need the slot back sooner, email us.
Adding slots takes effect immediately โ the new slot is available as soon as payment goes through.
Removing slots takes effect at your next renewal. You keep what you have already paid for, and there are no refunds or partial charges. You cannot go below the number of stores you have registered.
We keep only your plan size, renewal date and billing status โ enough to run your account, and nothing more.
We check for updates every morning. Nothing on this dashboard comes from inside your store or your terminal.
โ Confirmed means the Texas Lottery has announced it. You can act on it.
Forecast means it is our prediction from sales patterns. It may not happen, and the Lottery has not said anything.
You will see these two labels on Closing Soon and Closure Watch. Every other panel reports recorded data โ winners claimed, sales recorded, retailers listed โ so there is nothing to distinguish it from.
This is not an official Texas Lottery product or service. All lottery data is obtained from publicly available sources. The Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation has not reviewed, approved, or endorsed this application or its content.
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This does not guarantee an immediate fix, but every report is read.
That means a game you handed back last week may still appear on your dashboard until their records catch up. Always trust what is in your store over what is on this screen.
Need an invoice or receipt? Plan & Billing has an Open billing history button. That takes you to Stripe, who handle our payments, where every payment you have made is available as a downloadable PDF. You can update your card or billing address there too.
Email us for anything else.