Set up age & ID verification (18+ services)
Require ID verification before booking age-restricted services, choose manual or automated (Stripe Identity), and set your per-check fee. · Updated 30/07/2026
For age-restricted services — tattoos, piercings, tanning and some aesthetics treatments — you can require ID verification before a customer is allowed to book.
Choose a verification mode
Go to App › Settings › Payments and find ID verification. Three modes are available:
- Manual — staff check ID in person (or over a call) and mark the customer as verified from their profile. No extra cost.
- Automated — customers verify themselves online via Stripe Identity before booking, uploading a photo ID and a selfie for automatic matching.
- Choice — customers can pick either: verify automatically online for speed, or wait and be verified manually in person.
The automated check fee
When automated verification is enabled, the customer pays a small one-off fee to run the check (Stripe Identity has a real per-check cost). You control:
- Customer price — what the customer is charged for the check.
- Your share — how much of that you keep; the rest covers the platform's Stripe Identity cost.
Set both under App › Settings › Payments › ID verification. The customer price must always be higher than your share.
Requiring it on a service
- Open the service in App › Services and tick Requires age verification.
- Bookings for that service are blocked until the customer has a verified record on file, either from a manual staff check or a completed Stripe Identity session.
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