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Merchant Documentation

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What does this do for me?

This track shows how to turn on the storefront age gate, choose what happens when a visitor is under age, add document verification before checkout, and verify a customer from Shopify POS.

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Start with the storefront gate

The app uses Shopify-managed installation and opens as an embedded app in Shopify admin. The source repository does not include a public App Store listing URL, so this documentation does not provide one. After installation:

1. Open Age Verification from Shopify admin.
2. From the Dashboard, open the theme editor and activate the Age Verification app embed.
3. In Settings, enable age verification, choose a verification mode, set the minimum age, and save.
4. Open the storefront and confirm that the date-of-birth gate appears.

Read Set up the storefront age gate for the complete task.

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What you can manage

The embedded navigation includes:

• Dashboard — totals, verified, pending, blocked or failed checks, and recent verifications.
• Customers — sync customers from Shopify, add a customer, search, and filter by verification state.
• Verifications — filter verification records by status and open a record.
• Analytics — review pass and fail rates and geographic coverage (Pro and above).
• Billing — select Free, Pro, or Enterprise and choose monthly or annual billing for paid plans.
• Settings — configure the gate, checkout requirement, consent, regional rules, and implemented integrations.
• Privacy requests — view customer data exports created from Shopify privacy webhooks (account owner only).
• Developer — not a navigation item; open it from Settings with Manage API credentials to manage Merchant API bearer keys and API webhooks (Enterprise).
• Audit — view and export the immutable compliance log on Enterprise.

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Plans implemented in the app

Paid plans have a 14-day trial. Charges are created through Shopify’s Billing API. Development stores and explicitly configured test stores use test billing; an ordinary production merchant store uses live billing.

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