How to Become a Retailer

Become A Lottery Retailer

The D.C. Lottery offers a variety of incentives to many types of businesses to become a Lottery Retailer. Your place of business could be a profitable Lottery outlet if the following elements exist at your location:

• High in-store traffic
• Impulse products are sold at the location
• Ability to promote lottery products
• Point of sale materials can be prominently displayed to build product awareness

Incentives to retailer

• 5% commission on instant "scratch" and online (lottery terminal generated) ticket sales
• 4% commission on instant ticket cashes
• 3% commission on online ticket cashes
• 1% commission for selling the $100,000 POWERBALL ticket
• 1% commission for selling the winning Rolling Cash 5 jackpot ticket
• 1% commission for selling the $250,000 DC Daily 6 ticket
• 1% commission for selling the $100,000 Keno ticket
• $100,000 commission for selling the winning POWERBALL jackpot ticket
• Various incentives are also offered at different times