September 23, 2026 · Coam Tracker · 3-minute read
Short answer: the state takes its share from your COAM bank account once a week — usually Wednesday. If the money is not there, your machines can be switched off that same day. Bounce again and again, and you can lose the license.
Every location has a Sweep Date. On that day, the money owed is pulled from the store’s COAM bank account by itself — nobody calls you first. The full calendar is public: the COAM Location Sweep / Push Calendar on gacoam.com under Documents.
The COAM Division spelled this out in its September 2026 notice to location license holders, posted with its other notices under gacoam.com → Documents → COAM Communications. The Location License Holder Guide covers the sweep rules too.
Look at the COAM account before every sweep date. That’s it. Once a week, make sure the money is sitting there. If you keep your daily records, you already know what the week took in — so the sweep is never a surprise.
Pay the balance in full as fast as you can — the machines stay off until it reaches zero. Questions go to COAM Retailer Services at 1-800-746-8546, options 6 and 2.
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