Utilizing back office services of a wagering game machine

A method of operating a gaming system, the gaming system including game-logic circuitry and a regulated wagering game machine, the wagering game machine primarily dedicated to presenting a gaming session during which at least one casino wagering game is played, the wagering game machine including an electronic display device and one or more electronic input devices, the method comprising:

• detecting, via at least one of the one or more electronic input devices, a physical item associated with a monetary value that establishes a credit balance;
• initiating the gaming session in response to the detecting;
• during the gaming session,
• detecting an input indicative of a wager covered by the credit balance;
• receiving, by bindings of the wagering game machine over a network via Hyper Text Transfer Protocol (HTTP), a first message from a mobile remote computing device and including information for accessing a back office service of the wagering game machine;
• providing, by an adapter and based on the information, a back office service request to a back office service controller;
• performing, by the back office service controller, the back office service;
• determining, by the adapter and responsive to the back office service request, information related to performance of the back office service;
• transmitting, via the bindings, a second message to the mobile remote computing device over the network via the HTTP protocol, wherein the second message includes the information related to performance of the back office service;
• and
• receiving, via at least one of the one or more electronic input devices, a cashout input that ends the gaming session and initiates a payout from the credit balance.

A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium including computer executable program code to control a wagering game machine to provide back office services to a remote computing device, the computer executable program code comprising:

• code to receive, by bindings of the wagering game machine over a network via Hyper Text Transfer Protocol (HTTP), a first message from the remote computing device and including information for accessing a back office service of the wagering game machine;
• code to identify, by an adapter of the wagering game machine, the back office service based on the information;
• code to generate, by the adapter, a back office service request based on the information;
• code to provide, by the adapter, the back office service request to a back office service controller;
• code to perform, by the back office service controller, the back office service;
• code to generate, by the back office service controller and responsive to the back office service request, information related to performance of the back office service;
• code to receive, by the adapter from the back office service controller, a second message including the information related to performance of the back office service;
• and
• code to transmit, via the bindings, the second message to the mobile remote computing device over the network via the HTTP protocol.