From $199/mo
Adult brands — adult wellness, novelty, lingerie, dating platforms, adult content creators — sit on the list of categories Shopify Payments often restricts. Storefront, ads, product catalog, fulfillment all continue working after a restriction. Payment step is what breaks. Own-domain checkout wires the adult-friendly gateway you contracted with (CCBill, Segpay, high-risk NMI reseller, offshore acquirer) into Shopify without touching Shopify's approved list.
An adult-category flag from Shopify Payments hits the payment method, not the Shopify account itself. Product catalog stays. Age-gate integration (if you run one on the storefront) stays. Customer accounts, Klaviyo flows, subscription tool for recurring content, ERP, fulfillment app and marketing pixels all continue firing. Move the checkout URL to your own subdomain, wire the adult-friendly MID, and Shopify continues.
API keys for the adult-specialist gateway you have already contracted with. CCBill, Segpay, high-risk NMI reseller, offshore acquirer, custom HTTP.
checkout.your-brand.com with TLS + PCI tokenization. Age-gate integration on your storefront handled at cart level.
Second adult-friendly MID as fallback. Cascade rotates on decline, throttle, velocity block. Recurring rebills route through the healthy MID.
Legal status of adult products varies by country, US state, product category (novelty vs pharmaceutical), age-verification requirements (COPA/COPPA in the US, similar laws elsewhere) and shipping regulations. You remain responsible for age verification, compliance, and MCC disclosure in every jurisdiction you sell to.
Adult products are a category Shopify Payments often restricts. The Shopify storefront and fulfillment usually keep working; the payment step is what fails. Own-domain checkout via CascadeCheckout wires an adult-friendly MID you contracted with, without touching Shopify's approved list.
No. We do not underwrite or issue MIDs. You contract with your own adult-friendly acquirer (CCBill, Segpay, high-risk NMI reseller, offshore acquirer). We are the software layer that wires the MID you bring.
Legal status of adult products varies by country, US state, product category, age-verification requirements and shipping regulations. You remain responsible for compliance in every jurisdiction you sell to.
CCBill and Segpay are the established adult-specialist processors. NMI resellers, offshore acquirers, PXP and custom-HTTP banking rails also serve some adult merchants depending on subcategory and jurisdiction.
Bring the MID. We wire the cascade.
Shopify Payments banned → · High-risk processor → · Cloaked checkout →