Questions · Buy

Why does the agent not just type a date of birth?

Because it is shopping on someone’s behalf and does not invent an identity for them. A made up birth date would be a false statement to your store, so the agent stops and reports the check instead.

Why it happens

Stores that sell alcohol often open with an age check drawn over the whole page. Many ask for one click. Some ask for a typed date in a day, month and year box, or a year of birth in a number field, sometimes beside a country select, and keep the page locked until the answer passes.

A person types their own birth date without thinking. An agent buying for someone has no birth date of its own to give, and making one up would be inventing an identity, which an honest agent does not do. So it stops at the check, and the store behind it cannot be browsed, compared or bought from.

Run a free scan and find out which of these your store actually hits.