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Vape, e-liquid, disposables, nicotine pouches — categories Shopify Payments often restricts. Storefront, product pages, ads and fulfillment all continue to work after a restriction; the payment button breaks. Own-domain checkout wires your vape-friendly gateway into Shopify without needing it on Shopify's approved list.
A Shopify Payments restriction on a vape account rarely takes down the Shopify store itself. Product catalog, PACT-Act-compliant age verification workflows, cart, ERP integration, fulfillment app and marketing pixels all continue. What breaks is the payment step routing to Shopify Payments. Move that step to a URL you own with a vape-friendly MID behind it, and Shopify continues.
API keys for the vape-friendly gateway you have already contracted with. Vape-specialist NMI reseller, offshore acquirer, custom HTTP banking rail.
checkout.your-brand.com with TLS + PCI tokenization. Age-gate integration if your storefront runs one.
Second vape-friendly MID as fallback. Cascade rotates on decline, throttle, velocity block. Order writes back to Shopify tagged [cascade].
Legal status of vape and nicotine products varies by country, US state, product formulation, nicotine content, age-verification laws (PACT Act in the US, TPD in the EU) and specific device restrictions. Shipping vape products via USPS is restricted in the US. You remain responsible for compliance, age verification and MCC disclosure in every jurisdiction you sell to.
Vape, e-liquid and nicotine categories are categories Shopify Payments often restricts. Storefronts usually work; the payment step is what fails. Own-domain checkout via CascadeCheckout wires a vape-friendly MID you contracted with directly, without touching Shopify's approved list.
No. We do not underwrite or issue MIDs. You contract with your own vape-friendly acquirer, tobacco-friendly high-risk processor or offshore bank. We are the software layer that wires the MID you bring.
Legal status of vape and nicotine products varies by country, US state, product formulation, nicotine content, age-verification laws (PACT Act in the US) and specific device restrictions. You remain responsible for compliance in every jurisdiction you sell to.
Depends on your underwriting, jurisdiction, product mix and shipping compliance. Vape-specialist NMI resellers, offshore acquirers, PXP and custom-HTTP banking rails serve some vape merchants. Approval is between you and the acquirer.
Bring the MID. We wire the cascade.
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