Age Verification Solutions in Smart Vending

Why Choose VapeTM for Smart Vending Age Verification?

VapeTM’s age verification vending machines are designed to meet the highest standards of compliance and innovation. With advanced features like ID scanning, biometric facial recognition, and real-time authentication, our systems ensure your business stays compliant while delivering a seamless user experience.

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Advanced Biometric Facial Recognition & ID Check Technology

• ID Scanning: Instantly verifies government-issued IDs to prevent fraudulent purchases.
• Biometric Facial Recognition: Matches ID photos with the purchaser’s face for enhanced security.
• Real-Time Authentication: Ensures compliance with minimal delays for customers.

The Benefits of VapeTM's Age-Verified Vape Vending Machines

• Regulatory Compliance: Stay ahead of local and federal regulations with our robust verification tools.
• Operational Efficiency: Automate age verification, inventory tracking, and sales data management.
• Seamless Customer Experience: Offer quick and hassle-free purchases for eligible customers.
• Advanced Reporting: Access detailed analytics for better decision-making and improved business performance.

See VapeTM's Age Verification & Facial Recognition in Action

Discover how our machines ensure secure and compliant sales. Learn more about VapeTM’s innovative solutions.

Step-by-Step Flow Chart: Smart Vending Transaction Process with Age-Verification Enabled

1. Customer clicks "buy" to purchase a product or disposable vape.
2. A screen prompts the customer to enter their email or phone number.
3. Customer receives instructions via AptPay to upload their driver’s license and capture a facial image using their phone’s camera.
4. Verification completes in approximately 15 seconds, granting or denying access to the payment screen.
5. Customer is approved or disapproved 
6. If approved, customer can proceed to "go shopping"

Our ID Analyzer relies on multiple databases to authenticate identification documents and analyzes multiple face recognition assets to determine it is a match.  

Age verification is critical in the sale of vape products. It directly prevents underage access to nicotine, which is both illegal and harmful to youth health.   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.

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. 

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Whether you're managing a bar, nightclub, or age-restricted venue, VapeTM’s smart vending machines help you sell responsibly and legally. Contact us today to revolutionize your vending operations.

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