Age Verification for Digital Storefront

Privacy-first age verification for digital storefronts and social platforms. Verify once, reuse anywhere.

Instant, privacy-preserving verification for age-gated businesses

At a Glance

🛒 Industry
Online Retail, Hospitality, Gaming, Adult Content

⚠ Challenge
Age-gated businesses face friction, compliance risk, and manual ID processes that fail at scale

🔗 Solution
ShareRing Link: instant age verification using a zero-knowledge proof

✅ Key Benefit
Customers verify once, reuse everywhere; businesses receive pass/fail with no personal data stored

💰 Pricing
From $0.65 per verification check

🏅 Accreditation
UK DIATF (Digital Identity and Attributes Trust Framework) certified

73% Retailers Cite Age Verification Friction as Top Abandonment Cause

~$1B Annual Retail Losses from Failed Age-Gated Transactions

Zero Personal Data Stored by the Verifying Business

The Problem: Age Gating That Doesn’t Scale

Selling age-restricted products online is harder than it looks. Whether it’s alcohol, tobacco, online gaming, adult content, or pharmaceuticals, businesses operating in these verticals face a common bind: regulations require them to verify the age of every customer, but the available methods are either too slow, too invasive, or too unreliable.

The most common approach, asking customers to tick a box or enter a birth year, satisfies no regulator and stops no minor. At the other extreme, demanding passport scans or selfies with ID creates abandonment rates that make the checkout process commercially unviable.

Regulators are paying close attention. In Australia, the Trusted Digital Identity Framework introduced mandatory age verification requirements. In the UK, the Online Safety Act extended age verification obligations to adult content platforms. For businesses, this is no longer a compliance edge case; it is a core operational requirement.

The ShareRing Approach: Verify the Fact, Not the Person

ShareRing’s age verification is built on a single design principle: a business asking “is this customer 18 or over?” does not need to know their name, date of birth, passport number, or any other personal detail. It needs a yes or a no, and it needs that answer to be trustworthy.

This is what zero-knowledge proofs make possible. When a customer verifies their age through ShareRing Me, they store a government-verified identity document in their personal encrypted vault. When they encounter an age gate, ShareRing generates a cryptographic proof that the customer meets the age threshold. The business receives the result. No raw document data is transmitted. No personal information is stored by the verifying business.

“Age verification should be invisible to the legitimate customer and impenetrable to the rest. ShareRing achieves both without asking businesses or users to make uncomfortable trade-offs.”
— Tim Bos, Co-CEO, ShareRing

Three Ways to Verify

🌐 Seamless Verification
No app required. Customers verify directly in their browser using a web-based flow. Ideal for eCommerce, Shopify, and any web checkout.

📱 ShareRing Me App
Customers download ShareRing Me once, verify their identity, and store credentials in an encrypted vault. Every subsequent check takes seconds via QR code.

🔧 Embedded SDK
Fully white-labelled experience embedded directly into your own mobile or web application. Suitable for enterprises building identity into their core product.

How It Works

  1. 📲 Customer downloads ShareRing Me and completes one-time identity setup
  2. 🔗 Business deploys a ShareRing Link age gate via QR code or link
  3. 📱 Customer scans or clicks to verify; approves with a single tap
  4. ✅ Business receives a pass/fail signal; no identity data retained
  5. ♻ Credential is reusable across every subsequent interaction

What Businesses Can Expect

⏱ <10s Verification
Returning customers verify in under ten seconds after first-time setup. Abandonment rates at age-gated checkouts fall significantly.

💵 $0.65 Per Check
Flat-rate, usage-based pricing with no minimum commitment. Shopify plugin and API-first architecture mean most businesses go live within days.

🔒 Zero Data Liability
No passport scans, no stored selfies. UK DIATF accreditation provides compliance coverage without managing identity documents.