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Set Up the Storefront Age Gate

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What does this do for me?

This setup places a date-of-birth gate over the storefront. A visitor must meet the configured minimum age before the gate closes and the app remembers the pass for the configured cookie period.

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1. Activate the theme app embed

  1. Open Age Verification in Shopify admin.
  2. On the Dashboard, select Open the theme editor to activate the age gate.
  3. In the theme editor, enable the Age Verification app embed.
  4. Select Save in the theme editor.
The app cannot read theme activation status because it does not request theme-reading access. The Dashboard link opens the correct editor location but does not claim that the embed is already active.

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2. Configure the baseline gate

  1. Open Settings in the app.
  2. Under General, turn on Enable age verification.
  3. Choose Simple (button click) for the baseline self-certification flow.
  4. Set the Minimum age.
  5. Edit the heading, subheading, disclaimer, and button labels if needed.
  6. Under Under-age behavior, choose either a redirect or a block message.
  7. Set how many days the verified-state cookie should last.
  8. Select Save.
Saving publishes the minimum age to a Shopify shop metafield used by the theme extension. If that publish fails, the settings action refuses to save so the admin value and storefront threshold do not silently disagree.

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3. Check the storefront

Open the storefront. The gate displays a date-of-birth field and the configured confirm and decline actions. A successful pass writes the age_verified cookie; while that cookie is live, normal visits do not reopen the gate. To test the gate again, remove that cookie in the browser or use a browser profile that does not have it.