Minnesotans can once again purchase lottery tickets using their smartphones, but it’s anyone’s guess as to how long this latest experiment in modernity will survive.

On Tuesday, the Minnesota Lottery announced that it had entered into a memorandum of understanding with a New York-based company called Jackpocket for a “lottery service business” that, as of Tuesday, allows Minnesotans to order lottery tickets via an iOS app.

Jackpocket is essentially a payment agent that collects numerical lottery ticket orders – no scratch cards – from customers, then purchases tickets from a retail outlet. Customers, who must be physically located in Minnesota at the time they place their order, receive an email receipt at time of order indicating the numbers on their tickets, and later receive digital photos of said tickets as further proof of purchase.

Customers fund their ticket purchases – which are capped at $100 per day, although players have the option of setting that limit lower – by providing Jackpocket with bank account data. Jackpot charges customers a 7% fee of the ticket price, but doesn’t take any cut of player winnings.