Age Verification for Alcohol, tobacco and weapons
Age Verification for alcohol, tobacco and weapons requires speed, accuracy, and compliance—Agemin delivers all three with an AI-powered platform built to verify age instantly and reduce risk across regulated sales and sign-ups.
Verifying the minimum age required by law is essential for alcohol, tobacco, and weapons sales.
Why Agemin for regulated age checks
Agemin provides a modern, privacy-aware solution built for high-risk categories where the stakes are highest—alcohol, tobacco, e-cigarettes, vaping products, and weapons or other age-restricted items. The platform streamlines compliance while protecting conversions, so you can keep minors out without locking adults out, ensuring that only eligible individuals who have reached a certain age can access restricted products.
Instant, AI-powered verification
Agemin combines advanced facial analysis and intelligent decisioning to verify age in seconds, a process that requires users to provide information such as the customer's age or date of birth, with minimal friction. You can deploy it at checkout, account creation, and high-risk flows to block underage access before payment or fulfillment.
Built to simplify compliance
From global coverage to configurable rules by market, Agemin helps you operationalize age policies and region-specific thresholds for alcohol, tobacco, and weapons—while maintaining a smooth user experience that minimizes abandonment. Many states have their own requirements for age verification, and compliance may depend on state law, with most states having unique regulations that businesses must follow to ensure proper age verification.
Developer-friendly integration
Agemin is engineered for fast integration and secure server-side result handling, so your team can drop verified age decisions into existing checkout, POS, or onboarding flows without redesigning your stack. Results are designed to be accessed securely on the server using your private API key.
import AgeMin from '@agemin/sdk';
const agemin = new AgeMin({
apiKey: process.env.AGEMIN_KEY,
mode: 'regulated-products'
});
// Verify age for alcohol purchase
async function verifyForAlcohol(customerId) {
const result = await agemin.verify({
productType: 'alcohol',
requiredAge: 21,
state: 'CA',
customerId
});
if (result.verified && result.age >= 21) {
// Allow purchase
proceedToPayment();
} else {
// Block or request additional verification
showAgeGate();
}
}Conversion first, fraud second to none
Age checks shouldn't cost you customers. Agemin's low-friction UX protects legitimate buyers while detecting misuse and preventing loopholes that underage users try to exploit—so compliance and conversion work together. By applying due diligence, Agemin verifies age and detects fake IDs to ensure compliance and protect your business from fraud.
Age gating and access control
Age gating is a crucial step for businesses dealing with age restricted content, such as alcohol, tobacco, and firearms. To ensure compliance with federal law and state regulations, companies must implement robust age gating and access control measures that effectively verify a customer's age before granting access to restricted products or services. This often involves requiring users to provide valid identification, like a driver's license or other government issued ID, to confirm their eligibility. Age gating can be achieved through pop-up prompts, checkboxes, or more advanced age verification systems that securely process and validate identification. The goal is to prevent minors from accessing age restricted content while maintaining a seamless experience for eligible customers. By prioritizing secure and reliable age verification, businesses can ensure compliance with all relevant laws and regulations, protect public safety, and reduce the risk of underage sales of firearms, alcohol, or tobacco.
Use cases by category
Alcohol
21+Stop underage purchases online and in-app with fast age checks at account creation, cart, or payment. When buying alcohol online, age verification is typically required at checkout and sometimes again at the point of delivery to ensure compliance with legal requirements. Configure thresholds by country or state, and re-verify on high-risk events like address or payment changes.
How it works (high level)
Capture
User completes a quick, privacy-aware check, with completing this step required before access to age-restricted products is granted.
Decision
Agemin's AI assesses and returns a pass/fail age decision.
Enforce
Your app approves, blocks, or routes to manual review per your policy.
Security & privacy
Agemin is designed with a security-first approach and server-side access to verification results, reducing exposure of sensitive data in the browser and protecting against abuse.
Agemin supports verification of government-issued IDs, such as driver's licenses and digital/mobile driver's licenses, by checking security features like holograms and barcodes to prevent fraud.
Consequences of non-compliance
Failing to comply with age verification procedures and federal law can have serious consequences for businesses. Non-compliance may result in severe penalties, including hefty fines, loss of business licenses, or even legal action. In addition to financial and legal repercussions, businesses that do not implement effective age verification systems risk contributing to public safety issues, such as age restricted products falling into the wrong hands. For example, if a minor is able to purchase a firearm or tobacco product, the consequences can be dire, potentially leading to mass shootings or significant health problems. To avoid these risks and ensure compliance, businesses must prioritize robust age verification and adhere strictly to all applicable laws and regulations.
Protect Your Business & Community
Implement compliant age verification for regulated products in minutes
Benefits at a glance
Instant age decisions
with minimal friction
Configurable rules
per product, market, and risk level
Developer-friendly
integration and secure server-side result access
Regulatory compliance
Agemin helps online sellers meet regulatory requirements for age verification in high-risk industries
Higher conversion
for legitimate adults; stronger safeguards for minors
Best practices for implementation
To ensure compliance with federal law and state regulations, businesses should adopt best practices for age verification. This includes utilizing advanced age verification systems that leverage machine learning or biometric identification to accurately verify customers' ages. Requiring customers to provide valid identification, such as a driver's license, is essential for confirming eligibility. Regular audits and ongoing monitoring of age verification procedures help ensure that systems remain effective and that underage customers cannot bypass controls. Staying informed about changes in laws and regulations is also critical for maintaining legal compliance and responsible practices. By implementing these best practices, businesses can prevent minors from accessing age restricted products, protect public safety, and avoid costly legal issues.
Summary
Agemin delivers best-in-class age verification for alcohol, tobacco, and weapons by combining AI precision with a conversion-friendly user experience. With flexible policy controls and secure, server-side decisioning, Agemin helps you meet regulatory obligations, prevent underage access, and keep your sales moving.
FAQ
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