Can I create an age verification requiring email and birthdate entry?

Shopify Apps

Topic summary

A merchant seeks an age verification solution that collects both email addresses and birthdates in a single interface, rather than just social media logins.

Recommended App Options:

  • Age Verify with Email Capture - combines age verification with newsletter signup
  • 18 Plus Age Verification Popup, Age Check + Age Verification, and Age Verification Pro - allow manual birthdate entry
  • Real ID and Token of Trust - provide actual ID verification (not just self-reported age gating)

Key Distinctions:

  • Age gating = self-reported birthdate popups
  • Age verification = actual ID document validation against commercial databases

With new US PACT Act regulations (effective March 29) for vapor-related products, simple age gating may no longer be sufficient—proper ID verification is increasingly necessary.

Custom Development Option:
If existing apps don’t meet specific requirements, Shopify Experts can build custom integrations. One user notes they created a custom solution syncing a Klaviyo embedded form with a WordPress age gate, though Shopify code restrictions may limit similar implementations.

Token of Trust uses low-friction database checks at checkout, falling back to ID capture if needed to minimize conversion impact.

Summarized with AI on November 13. AI used: claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929.
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Just to add to @Rae 's answer, and like I mentioned in another post, Real ID also provides ID verification instead of just age gating.

What’s the difference?

Apps that just ask for self reporting ages, like popups asking for your birthdate is what’s referred to as age gating. This practice might be compliant for your industry, but with the new PACT law coming into effect in the US on March 29 - age gating alone is not longer enough to sell vapor related products.

Age verification the act of actually capturing an image of your customer’s ID document and verifying it against a commercially available database.

I’m not sure of your use case exactly or what industry you’re in, but just want to offer that piece of info.