Set age restrictions on items with Square for Retail

About age restrictions on items

With Square for Retail, you can set age restrictions on items in your Item library. Use age restrictions to prompt for age verification when you sell age-restricted items from the Square Retail POS app.

Before you begin

To set age restrictions, you need access to your Square Dashboard. You will receive a prompt to manually verify your customer’s age each time you add an age-restricted item into your customer’s basket.

Set an age restriction

1. Sign in to your Square Dashboard and click Items and orders > Items > Item Library.

2. Click Create item or select an existing item.

3. Click Set next to Age restriction.

4. By default, you will have three options for an age restriction:

   • buyer must be 18+

   • buyer must be 19+

   • buyer must be 21+

5. Choose a minimum age restriction, then click Set.

6. You can also set up a custom age restriction. Click Custom and input your chosen age, then click Set.

Remove an age restriction

1. Sign in to your Square Dashboard and click Items and orders > Items > Item Library.

2. Click an existing item with an age restriction.

3. Click the arrow (>) next to Age restriction.

4. Select the age you want to remove and click Remove.

5. Click Save.

Bulk-edit age restrictions

1. Sign in to your Square Dashboard and click Items and orders > Items > Item Library.

2. Tick the box next to each item you want to edit age restrictions on.

3. Click Edit items.

4. Under the Age restriction column, select from the following options:

   • none

   • buyer must be 18+

   • buyer must be 19+

   • buyer must be 21+

   • custom

5. Repeat adding a default buyer age restriction or custom age restriction for all items selected.

6. Once all changes have been made, click Update variations to save changes.

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