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In development. The AnonAge Age Verification app is not in the Shopify App Store yet. Email support@anonage.io to be told when it is. This page describes the app as it will launch.

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What it does

The app adds an age gate to your storefront. Visitors confirm they are old enough, or enter their year of birth, before they see the store or a restricted product. Nothing about them is sent to AnonAge or anyone else: the answer is kept in a single cookie in their own browser, holding the age they passed (for example 18), never a date of birth. Age Gate is US$2 per month, billed through Shopify, with a 14-day free trial. Verified age checks through the AnonAge app are coming later as a separate plan.
The age gate is a self-declaration overlay. It is a courtesy notice, not a lock: anyone can answer untruthfully, and a visitor can remove an overlay with browser developer tools or by turning JavaScript off. If the law requires you to verify ages, a self-declared answer is not enough on its own.

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Set up

1

Install and approve the plan

The 14-day trial starts when you approve it. Uninstalling before it ends costs nothing.
2

Turn the gate on in your theme

The app’s home page has a button that opens the theme editor at App embeds with the gate selected. Switch it on and save.
3

Choose where it applies

The whole store, or selected products and collections. Tagging a product age-restricted is the quickest way to gate it; you can also pick products and collections directly.
4

Check it as a visitor

Open your store in a private window. Once you have answered the gate in a browser it stays out of your way there for as long as you chose to remember the answer, so a normal window will not show it again.

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Restricted products in listings

When the gate covers selected products, visitors who have not passed it also see those products treated differently wherever they are listed. You choose the treatment separately for the home page and for everywhere else (collections, search, recommendations and menus): Blurred and greyed products still open when clicked, behind the gate. Blurring a card on the page does not hide the photo itself: the real image is still the one your store sends, and anyone can open it in a new tab. If the photo must not be seen in listings at all, give the product a different featured image. The restricted image maker turns a product photo into a blurred or pixelated, labelled version. It works in your browser and does not upload your photo. The saved image is built from a version a few dozen pixels wide, so the detail is not hidden in it: it is not there.
1

Make the image

Open the restricted image maker, choose your photo, adjust it and download it.
2

Add it to the product

In Shopify admin, open the product and add the image under Media.
3

Make it the first image

Drag it to the first position. The first image is the featured image used on the home page, collections and search. Keep your real photos after it; they show on the product page, behind the gate.
If you sell through Google, Meta or other sales channels, they are sent the featured image too, and some reject placeholder or obscured product images. Check their image rules before switching.

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Limits worth knowing

  • Picked collections contribute their first 50 products to the listing treatment, and the tag is checked across the first 250 products in your store. Products past those limits are listed normally, though their own pages are still gated.
  • Product cards are recognised by the list item a theme puts around each one, as Dawn and most themes do. A theme that lists products some other way is left alone.