Purpose
1. Automate and enforce legal compliance for age-restricted hookah purchases online, verifying customer age through digital, SMS, document, or database checks before order completion.
2. Automatedly prevent sales to underage buyers, minimize legal risks, ensure regulatory adherence, streamline operations, and maintain an audit trail for inspections.
3. Automates identity checks, document uploads, cross-referencing government databases, issuing alerts for failed verifications, and automated logging of verification results.
Trigger Conditions
1. Automating at checkout when a cart contains age-restricted items.
2. Automated when a new user registers or inputs date of birth.
3. Automation is triggered upon attempted payment or site access based on geolocation.
4. Automator initiates when users interact via SMS/WhatsApp/email for manual verification fallback.
Platform Variants
1. Twilio
- Feature/Setting: SMS/Voice OTP verification API; configure SMS request step to send age confirmation codes, automates check via callback URL.
2. SendGrid
- Feature/Setting: Transactional email API; auto-send verification links or document upload requests within emails, automates follow-up reminders.
3. Auth0
- Feature/Setting: Rules and Actions for automated age claim in JWT, auto-block or allow registration based on DOB validation.
4. DocuSign
- Feature/Setting: Identity verification envelopes; automate e-signature age confirmation forms with integrated government ID uploads.
5. Onfido
- Feature/Setting: Document and biometric API; automate upload, scan, and verify age via passport/ID checks.
6. Stripe
- Feature/Setting: Checkout validation hooks; automates pre-payment age verification forms/fields and webhook-reported status.
7. AWS Lambda
- Feature/Setting: Automated serverless functions for real-time calculations of user age and conditional pass/fail triggers.
8. Azure Cognitive Services
- Feature/Setting: OCR/Face API, automate extraction and verification of birthdate from uploaded IDs.
9. Google Cloud Vision
- Feature/Setting: DetectText function automates birthdate parsing during ID upload.
10. IDology
- Feature/Setting: ExpectID API; automated identity and age verification on checkout form submission.
11. LexisNexis
- Feature/Setting: InstantID API, configure to automate real-time crosschecks against government databases.
12. Sila
- Feature/Setting: KYC endpoint, automate detailed identity validation with automated reporting webhooks.
13. Jumio
- Feature/Setting: Netverify API; automates ID document check and age verification within purchase flow.
14. Socure
- Feature/Setting: ID+ API, age verification module automates front-end validation at checkout.
15. Yoti
- Feature/Setting: Age verification SDK; automate user flow to capture selfie, ID, and validate age.
16. Veriff
- Feature/Setting: Automatedage verification API, onboarding automation to restrict underage access.
17. Facebook Login
- Feature/Setting: Custom permissions, request birthdate, automate access check at login with redirect for failed verifications.
18. Shopify
- Feature/Setting: Script Editor or third-party age gates; automate pre-checkout block on underage attempts.
19. WooCommerce
- Feature/Setting: Age verification plugins, automate popup DOB entry, auto-block orders for failures.
20. Zapier
- Feature/Setting: Automated workflow triggers (webhook/email), automates integration of forms, document checks, and CRMs for compliance record.
21. Okta
- Feature/Setting: Adaptive authentication automation, triggers age-restricted flows based on profile info.
22. Slack
- Feature/Setting: Automated compliance alert bots, trigger notification if manual reviews are needed.
Benefits
1. Automates compliance enforcement, reduces manual review labor.
2. Speeds up user onboarding with automated checks and real-time approvals or denials.
3. Lowers business risk by automating always-on, tamper-proof verification.
4. Automator improves customer experience through frictionless, fast validation.
5. Centralizes all age-check records for automated audits, enabling instant regulator reporting.
6. Automatedly adapts to changes in law or policy requirements across all points of sale.
Compliance and Age Verification