Age verification on products

If you sell products that require the customer to be over a certain age, you can put age verification on those products. Shoporama automatically sends the age requirement to the payment gateway, which handles the actual verification during checkout.

Setting up

You set age verification on the individual product:

1. Go to product editing in the administration
2. Find the section Customs, VAT and legal
3. Under Require age verification, select:
   • None - No age requirement
   • 16 years - Customer must be at least 16 years old
   • 18 years - Customer must be at least 18 years old
4. Save the product

How does it work?

When a customer adds an age-restricted product to the cart and proceeds to checkout, Shoporama automatically sends the age requirement to the payment gateway (e.g. ePay). The payment gateway handles the actual age verification as part of the checkout process.

If the order contains multiple products with different age requirements, the highest requirement is used. For example, if one product requires 16 years and another requires 18 years, the age verification will require 18 years.

Order view

In the order list in the administration, a badge with the age requirement (e.g. "18+") is displayed on orders containing age-restricted products. This gives you a quick overview of which orders required age verification.