Building an adult ecommerce store isn't just "ecommerce with NSFW products". The gateways are different. The age-gate matters at every checkout step. The PCI surface area is bigger because most adult merchants run higher-risk MCCs. Generic agencies treat this as a Shopify-template-with-different-products problem and ship a store that breaks the moment it touches real adult-industry traffic.
Shopify's AUP for adult products is restrictive — they've shut down stores selling perfectly legal sex toys after months of operation. WooCommerce on WordPress is the safer default for most adult ecommerce. We help you pick the right platform up-front and migrate clients off Shopify when AUP risk gets real.
A third-party plugin that adds an interstitial on landing but doesn't gate the checkout properly. Buyers can technically bypass it. Mainstream payment processors flag the merchant as high-risk. Server-side age-gate, integrated with checkout flow — that's what works.
Stripe declines most adult ecommerce. Standard PayPal won't work. Adult-friendly merchant accounts (CCBill, NETBilling, NMI, Authorize.Net for some categories) each have specific integration patterns. Generic agencies ignore this and assume "we'll figure out payments at the end".
WordPress + WooCommerce, our custom block theme adapted for ecommerce.
Everything in ENTRY plus advanced category architecture, programmatic product templates, custom faceted search.
Laravel or Next.js + Node depending on stack preference. Custom data model around your specific product structure.
Tell us what you sell, your catalogue size, your current platform (if any), and your gateway situation. We'll scope, recommend the right platform, and quote.
