For charities, clubs and associations licensed for charitable gaming in North Dakota: record each pull-tab game as it is put into play and closed, keep inventory logs by site, watch the 60 percent expense limit, and have the quarterly return figures ready for the Attorney General's portal.
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A volunteer fire department runs pull-tabs at three bars and electronic pull-tabs at one of them. Each week the gaming manager enters the games put into play and the games closed at every site. At quarter end, Schedule B1 lists every game at every site, Schedule B3 has the electronic pull-tab totals, and the expense figure shows the organization is under the 60 percent limit — the return is filed on the portal a week before the deadline.
Choose your planAround 350 organizations in North Dakota hold a license for charitable gaming: veterans' posts, fire departments, youth sports associations, service clubs. Most of their gaming revenue comes from pull-tabs sold at bars and other sites.
Every quarter each licensee files a gaming return with the Attorney General. It includes Schedule B1 for every pull-tab game at every site, Schedule B3 for electronic pull-tabs, and figures that must match inventory records. Since July 2026 returns are filed online through the Charitable Gaming Organization Portal.
The portal accepts the return, but the work before it — collecting the numbers from each site and making them agree — still falls on a gaming manager or a volunteer treasurer, often with spreadsheets kept from quarter to quarter.
The service keeps that record as the quarter goes on. Each pull-tab game is entered when it is purchased, when it is put into play at a site and when it is closed, with its serial number, form and results.
Inventory logs follow from these entries: games purchased, games in stock, games in play at each site and games closed. At year end the annual reconciliation is prepared from the same records, so the inventory and the returns tell one story.
Electronic pull-tab results are entered by site and period and summarized for Schedule B3.
Expenses are recorded as they are paid and compared with the 60 percent expense limit throughout the quarter, not only at the end. If spending approaches the limit, you see it while there is still time to act.
At quarter end the service shows the figures for Schedule B1 and Schedule B3 in the order the return asks for them, together with a list of anything missing: a game without a closing entry, a site without results, a number that does not match inventory.
Several people can work in the same organization: a gaming manager, site staff entering results and a treasurer reviewing the totals. Each change is recorded with the person and the date.
Past quarters stay available, so an audit question about an old game or site can be answered from the same place.
The service is built for charitable gaming licensees in North Dakota. It is in preparation: we are checking whether organizations need it before it is built.
The service prepares figures from your records; the return is filed by your organization, and responsibility for it stays with the licensee. It is not affiliated with the Attorney General's office.
Schedule B1 for every pull-tab game at every site and Schedule B3 for electronic pull-tabs, with inventory logs and annual reconciliation.
No. It prepares the figures; your organization files the return on the Attorney General's online portal.
Yes, a gaming manager, site staff and a treasurer, with every change recorded.
No. It is an independent service for licensed organizations.
Not yet. The service is in preparation, and we are checking whether organizations need it.