What Is LottoShield Pro and How Does It Work?

Introduction

LottoShield Pro is an automated lottery management platform built to help convenience stores and lottery retailers simplify and secure every aspect of their lottery operations. It accurately tracks scratcher ticket inventory, eliminates paper logs, manages backstock, identifies missing packs, and automatically reconciles your daily lottery transactions.

This is achieved through three key data sources: POS integration, display case audits, and state lottery integration.

The system delivers a detailed daily accounting of every ticket that leaves your display case, along with overs and shorts by category. Each morning, LottoShield Pro sends a concise email summary highlighting your store’s lottery performance from the previous day. When an issue occurs, you can quickly drill into the details and resolve it in just seconds.

LottoShield Pro streamlines your entire lottery workflow through a set of simple, automated processes that track tickets in your display case, backstock, vending machines, online lottery, and payouts—giving you complete visibility and control over your lottery operations at all times.

Display Case

To monitor your display case ticket movement, LottoShield Pro provides a mobile app that scans the barcode of each pack in your display case. Like a traditional paper log, the app records the starting and ending ticket numbers for each pack to calculate how many tickets have been sold or removed since the last audit.

Where LottoShield Pro goes further is in its integration with your register sales, automatically identifying overs and shorts for every game and pack. The system compiles this data and performs all calculations instantly—turning what once took 10–15 minutes per shift into a task that now takes just seconds.

The process is simple for cashiers to follow, improves accuracy, and allows you to reallocate staff time to more profitable store activities.

Backstock

Tracking your backstock is essential for securing your lottery operations, and LottoShield Pro supports this in two key ways:

1. State Lottery Integration:
   Through integration with your state lottery system, LottoShield Pro provides detailed, real-time information on the status of every scratcher pack—from issuance by the state office to confirmation, activation, and settlement. These updates are continuously recorded within the system.

2. Physical Backstock Audits:
   To add an extra layer of protection, LottoShield Pro verifies the physical presence of your packs through backstock audits. Using the mobile app, you simply scan the first barcode of each pack—typically once a day or once a week. If a pack is activated but not scanned in the display case or vending machine, LottoShield Pro automatically flags it in your daily email report as a Missing Pack.

Online Lotto

LottoShield Pro automatically reconciles your register sales for online lottery with your state lottery terminal reports—no manual input or terminal slips required. This seamless automation is powered by LottoShield’s direct POS and state lottery integrations, ensuring every transaction aligns accurately and effortlessly.

Payouts

LottoShield Pro also automates the reconciliation of lottery payouts processed through your POS—both for online lotto and scratcher tickets—against your state lottery terminal reports. Like online lotto reconciliation, this process runs automatically through LottoShield’s POS and state lottery integrations, saving time and eliminating human error.

Vending Machines

For retailers who use vending machines, LottoShield Pro ensures accurate tracking of packs placed in those machines. If a pack were activated and placed into a vending machine without proper tracking, it would normally appear as missing. To prevent this, the mobile app includes a dedicated feature to record when packs move from backstock into a vending machine, ensuring your inventory records remain complete and accurate.

Looking for more detailed management of your vending machines? Ask chat support about LottoShield's managed vending machine service?