Age Verification with Facial Recognition for Vape Vending

The Challenge: Age Verification in Vending Adult-Only Products like Nicotine

Age-restricted vending has long faced significant challenges. Traditional methods such as ID scanners and QR code-based verification often fail due to their reliance on external databases, leaving them vulnerable to counterfeit IDs. This creates compliance risks and limits trust in age-restricted vending systems. These shortcomings, coupled with regulatory scrutiny on products like vapes, THC variants, and nicotine, have made it clear: a better solution was needed. VapeTM has risen to the challenge, setting a new standard for the industry.

The Solution: VapeTM’s Apt-Verified Technology  designed to meet banking compliance

VapeTM Vape Vending Machines come equipped with age-verification to ensure that customers are of legal age to make a purchase.  It is built into our software and there is no additional cost.  

How Does VapeTM Verify Age?

VapeTM software connects to AptPay via an API and customers are required to either type in a phone number or email address in which case they get sent a link to upload their ID and take a selfie.  As a result, VapeTM directly prevents underage access to age-restricted products.  

Step by Step overview of an age-verified transaction through VapeTM with Apt-VERIFY

  1. Customer clicks "buy" to purchase a product or disposable vape.
  2. A screen is displayed that akss the customer to insert their email address or phone number.
  3. Customer receives instructions via AptPay to upload their drivers license and take a picture of their face using the camera on their phone.
  4. Authenticity and verification occurs in approximately 15 seconds and the customer will either be approved or denied access to the payment screen to complete the transaction.

Other Benefits Of VapeTM's Age Verification Software: Avoid Fines and Foster Safe Community

Regulatory bodies like the FDA and state governments have stringent age restrictions in place to mitigate these risks. By implementing robust age-verification systems, vape vending machines not only adhere to these laws but also promote responsible retailing. These systems are based on verifying government-issued IDs. Our system is designed to ensure that the purchaser is legally eligible to buy vaping products.

Beyond legal compliance, age verification technology helps protect businesses from substantial fines, legal action, and damage to their reputation. It also fosters a safer community by ensuring that these products do not fall into the hands of minors. As the vaping industry continues to evolve, the integration of reliable age-verification mechanisms remains a cornerstone in maintaining ethical standards and public health. Here's how we help you host a vape vending machine responsibly and legally for your patrons.

KYC Solutions with Apt-VERIFY and age-restricted vending products for Credit Card Processing

Smart vending machines that enable cashless payments such as credit cads and Apple pay face increased regulatory risk.  Payment processors, ISOs, sponsor banks, and machine deployers need to ensure that they “Know [Their] Customer” and take care of their increased KYC needs.  Such compliance efforts can be cumbersome and costly, and come with increased wait times at vending machines and it may limit customer reach.   Moreover, the quality of age verification may be poor (ie. fake drivers licenses or expired drivers licenses may go undetected) increasing the exposure and regulatory risk to a vending machine operator. 

As we we enter into the digital age of smart vending, it is important to address KYC needs to mitigate against these factors and ensure compliance around age verification of payees that are purchasing nicotine, electronic cigarettes or other age-restricted, adult-only products at your vending machines.  

VapeTM has worked closely with law firms and experts in the space to develop and provide a one-stop solution to address all your (vending machine owner and operator) KYC needs. We have partnered with AptPay and utilize their end-to-end, one-stop digital KYC compliance service powering instant payee identification and verification for businesses across a network of connected local and international sources” (AptPay.pdf pg. 2).  Verify partnership and API, VapeTM quickly, and in real time, verifies the age of the customer at the vending machine.  The accuracy of the information is verified and the ID, license, or passport of the customer is presented, scanned, and authenticated to reduce the regulatory risk of minors purchasing nicotine or adult-only products.  To ensure that the payee is in fact the person presenting the documents or license that we verify, we rely on biometric facial recognition for a liveness check.  VapeTM authenticates ID documents from 190+ countries and complies with Apt pay’s data collection verification and storage protocols. 

Does your Vape Vending Route Need More Compliance?

Contact VapeTM and speak with a compliance specialist 

Citation: AptPay and Apt-VERIFY one-pager.pdf