Age-Restricted Commerce
Online gambling, adult platforms, alcohol and tobacco retail. Every transaction runs into the same regulatory wall: verify the customer's age without scaring them off. Traditional checks kill conversion. Credenco replaces them with a one-tap credential exchange that proves eligibility without revealing a single unnecessary detail.
Opportunity
Regulators across Europe are tightening the rules. The Digital Services Act, national age-verification mandates and anti-money-laundering frameworks all demand stricter proof, while customers demand frictionless checkout.
The industries caught in the middle pay for it twice: in compliance cost, and in every customer who drops off at the verification screen.
Why Credenco
Credenco turns verification into a one-tap confirmation. Customers prove they are of age, a resident of the right country, or eligible under local law, straight from their Business Wallet, without uploading a passport or taking a selfie.
Platforms stay compliant with the DSA and national rules, keep full audit trails, and protect the conversion rates their revenue depends on.
Passport uploads required
1 tap
From checkout to confirmed
Products and Features
Business Wallet
Customers carry their eligibility credentials in one secure wallet, reusable across every platform that accepts them.
Issuance Service
Issue age, residency or eligibility credentials once, from a government wallet, a national registry, or your own issuing platform.
Verification Service
Request exactly the proof you need, age over 18, residency, self-exclusion status, and verify it in under a second at checkout.
Selective Disclosure
Customers share only what they must. "Over 18" means over 18, not a birthday, not a name, not a passport number. Privacy-preserving by design, compliant by default.
Compliance
Meet the Digital Services Act, national age-verification laws and AML requirements with a full tamper-proof audit trail. Built on eIDAS 2.0.
A Story from Age-Verified Checkout
A customer visits an online alcohol retailer at midnight. The old way: upload a photo of an ID, wait for manual review, retry the selfie twice, abandon cart. Typical drop-off at this step: 35%.
With Credenco, the customer taps once. An age credential already issued by their national identity wallet is shared with the retailer, signed, cryptographically verified, and revealing only "over 18". Checkout completes in three seconds. No ID upload. No selfie. No lost sale.
Benefits for Regulated Operators
- Conversion rates stay high: verification is a tap, not a hurdle.
- Compliance with DSA, national age-verification laws and AML, built in.
- Privacy by design: share only the minimum required attribute.
- Fraud drops: credentials are cryptographically tied to their issuer.
- Audit trails are generated automatically for every transaction.
Built for the Next Wave of Regulation
The Digital Services Act, the EUDI Wallet rollout and upcoming national age-verification mandates will reshape how regulated consumer industries operate online. Credenco is built on exactly those standards, eIDAS 2.0, OpenID4VCI, OpenID4VP, so you're ready for what's coming, not scrambling when it arrives.
Example use cases
Concrete scenarios where verifiable credentials remove friction in age-restricted commerce.
Age verification at checkout
Prove age in a single tap, no passport uploads, no selfies, no personal data shared beyond the minimum required by law.
Responsible gaming limits
Self-exclusion and spending limits carried as credentials, recognised across licensed operators, protecting players without re-registration.
Proof of eligibility for age-restricted delivery
Alcohol and tobacco couriers verify recipient eligibility at the door, age and residency confirmed cryptographically, in seconds.