Jackpocket today announced a partnership with Sightline, integrating Sightline’s Play+ with Jackpocket’s mobile-user experience for playing the lottery.
Though the lottery has traditionally been a cash-only industry, the Jackpocket-Sightline partnership is enabling lottery patrons to use modern electronic-payment methods. With Sightline’s Play+, Jackpocket app users can now fund an FDIC-insured account with numerous payment methods of their choice. Players can use their Play+ account to place ticket orders on Jackpocket for Powerball, Mega Millions, and more.
Play+ enables a cashless and mobile-commerce experience, along with access to winnings, including cash withdrawals at ATMs worldwide.
“The Jackpocket app broadens access to the lottery, which helps state lotteries drive incremental revenue benefiting critical state programs,” Jackpocket CEO Peter Sullivan said. “Partnering with Play+, a platform used by some of the biggest names in the gaming industry, moves forward Jackpocket’s mission to make the lottery more accessible and convenient to play.”
“In these unprecedented times, the demand for more cashless transactions by consumers is rapidly accelerating,” said Marc Falcone, President & CFO of Sightline. “Play+ offers players a seamless and safe way to play the lottery from their phone on the Jackpocket app.”
A member of the National Council on Problem Gambling, Jackpocket also ensures player safety with consumer protections, such as daily deposit and spend limits, self-exclusion, and in-app access to responsible-gaming resources. The company is the first third-party lottery service to receive a responsible-gambling certification from the NCPG’s Internet Responsible Gambling Compliance Assessment Program.
