September 28, 2026 · Coam Tracker · 2-minute read
Short answer: yes. Since July 1, 2026, a Georgia store with Class B machines can redeem a winning ticket with a gift card. The law does not say whose card. An in-house card — your own store’s gift card — is allowed as long as it follows the rules below.
O.C.G.A. § 50-27-71.1 lists gift cards as one of the four legal ways to redeem a ticket. It sets rules for the card. It does not name a company, a brand, or a “program.” The Georgia Lottery’s own notice says a store that does not have gift cards yet should “independently research” how to offer them. That means the choice is yours.
An in-house card is spent at your store, on your goods. Nobody else honors it. That is the simplest kind of card there is, and it fits the rules with room to spare: the money never leaves your store, so it can never become cash somewhere else.
Write it down. Every ticket you redeem with a card is a record: the ticket amount, the card, the date, who did it. When the customer spends the card, that is a record too. Inspectors ask for these. Keep them five years.
Do not let the card become a step toward cash — no cash back, no money orders, no prepaid cards, no money transfers. The Georgia Lottery said on September 16, 2026 that a gift card can never be used to get cash, in whole or in part.
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