Two legal ages in one store, on two sets of products.

1. In the Age Verify admin open Age groups and press Add group.
2. Name it Alcohol 21+, keep Age required at 21, press Select collections and pick your beer, wine and spirits collections. Save.
3. Add a second group, Tobacco 18+, with Age required 18. Use Select products for the tobacco products. Save.
4. In POS add a beer to the cart. The tile reads Check age: 21+. Tap it, check the age and tap Verify.
5. Add cigarettes to the same cart. The tile marks them by itself, because the age already read covers 18+.

Faster at the counter and no typing mistakes.

1. In Settings tick Autocomplete.
2. When the tile asks, tap it, then Scan, and point the camera at the barcode on the back of the license or ID. A barcode scanner connected to POS works without tapping Scan.
3. The date fills in and the check runs by itself.
4. Without Autocomplete the date fills in, a toast says DL scanned, and you tap Verify.
5. If the scan fills nothing, type the date on the keypad.

You want each order to show that the age was checked.

1. In Settings leave Allow skipping age verification unticked. The Skip button then never appears.
2. Next to Receipt text press Enable, keep or change the text (Age Verified by default) and press Save.
3. Run a test sale. Under the checked item the cart shows Age Verified: 21+.
4. Print a test receipt to see how the line looks on yours.
5. In Reports pick the period and press Export to Excel when you need the list.

The restricted item cannot be sold, the rest of the sale can go on.

1. Scan or type the birth date and tap Verify.
2. A red panel reads Warning! with the customer's age and the age required.
3. Items the customer is old enough for are already marked.
4. Tap Remove items to take the other items out of the cart, then finish the sale.
5. If the date was typed wrong, tap Close. The date stays, so you can fix it and tap Verify again.

Two tiles can belong to Age Verify. Only the Age Verify tile watches the cart.

Setting	What it does
Age Verify · Scan DL to check age	No restricted item in the cart. Tapping the tile opens the DL Scanner.
Age Verify · Check age: 21+	Items in the cart need a check. The badge counts them. Tapping the tile opens Age check.
Age Verify · Age verified	Every restricted item in the cart is checked.
Age Verify: ID Scanner (POS)	The app itself, opened in POS. It has Scan and Settings, shows age and birth date, and does not look at the cart.

Opens from the tile when restricted items in the cart are not checked yet.

Setting	What it does
21+ required	The highest age the waiting items need, with their names below.
Enter birthday (mm/dd/yyyy)	The date order. Locations that use USD or CAD type the month first, other currencies the day first. The grey hint shows an example.
1–9 · 0	The keypad. 8 digits, with a four-digit year.
Clear	Removes the last digit.
Scan	Opens the POS camera. A barcode scanner connected to POS works without it.
Verify	Runs the check. With Autocomplete it runs by itself.
Skip	Covers every waiting item without a check and logs Skipped. Shown only when Allow skipping age verification is on.
Remove items	Removes the waiting items from the cart and closes the window.
Warning!	The customer's age is below what some items need. Close keeps the date. Remove items takes those items out.
Enter birthdate · Month can't be more than 12 · Can't verify this birthdate	Errors under the date. The last one means the date does not exist, is in the future or is before 1900.

Opens from the tile when no restricted item is waiting. It does not change the cart and writes no record.

Setting	What it does
Scan DL	Waiting for a scan.
Scan	Opens the POS camera.
20 years	The age in full years, on the date of the POS device.
03/02/2006 · mm/dd/yyyy	The birth date and its order. Day first in locations that do not use USD or CAD.

In Shopify admin, from Age groups in the title bar.

Setting	What it does
Add group	Opens New age group.
Age required: 21	The minimum age of the group.
Products: N · Collections: N	What the group covers. Variants picked one by one count as products.
Edit	Opens the group.
Delete	Asks Delete group? first. Its items then no longer ask for a check.

The Age check card appears only in Shopify admin. In POS, Settings shows the three cards below it.

Setting	What it does
Allow skipping age verification	Shows Skip in the Age check window. Off by default.
Autocomplete	The check runs by itself after the full date is typed or scanned. Off by default.
Receipt text	Disabled, or Enabled with your text. Enable or Edit opens Text on age-verified items, up to 250 characters. Disable turns the line off.
Miss something?	Tell us opens a short form for a feature you need.
Contact us	contact@merchbytes.com.
App version	The version of the admin.

In Shopify admin, from Reports in the title bar. Newest checks first.

Setting	What it does
From · To	The period. Both start on today.
Date/Time	When the check was made. Stores that use USD or CAD see 10/26/2026 3:45 PM, other stores 26/10/2026 15:45.
Age	The age read, or Skipped.
Age required	The highest age the checked items needed, for example 21+.
Items · Location	The names of the checked items and the POS location.
Export to Excel	Downloads the period as an .xlsx file with the same columns.
Showing the last 1000 checks	The period holds more checks than the table shows. Export a shorter period.

US and Canadian driver's licenses and ID cards with the PDF417 barcode on the back. Passports and licenses from other countries cannot be read.

No. It reads the birth date only. The cashier checks the card.

No. Shopify POS does not let an app block payment or open a window by itself. The tile, the badge and the toast tell the cashier, and the cashier has to tap the tile.

No. The barcode is read on the POS device and is not sent anywhere. Each check record keeps the time, the age or Skipped, the required age, the item names, the location and the staff member, in your Shopify store.

No. The age is asked once per cart. It is asked again only when a later item needs a higher age than the age already read. After a skipped check nothing asks again in that cart.

The check does: the POS device keeps the last copy of your groups and settings, and the check record is sent when the device is back online. A device that has never loaded your groups does not know them.

No. Reports shows the date and time, the age, the required age, the items and the location.

No. Age groups, Reports and the Age check settings are in Shopify admin. In POS the app itself shows the scanner and Settings.

No. Parcerly does that: it fills in a new customer from a US driver's license.

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