Compliance isn't a plugin here. It's how the storefront is built.
In cannabis, trust is part of the sale. Every Buddy storefront ships with a branded age wall, real dated legal documents, self-service privacy tools in the customer account, publishable lab results, and state-specific content — already there on day one.
Are you 21 or older?
You must be of legal age to view this site. Your answer is remembered on this device.
Your logo, your colors, your wording.
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The front door
Age verification, done right.
The age wall sits in front of the store by default — no plugin to find, no snippet to paste. It carries your logo, your colors, and your wording, so the first impression a visitor gets is still your brand.
- On by default in front of the entire storefront.
- Fully brandable — logo, colors, and copy are yours.
- Remembers the visitor so returning shoppers aren't asked on every page.
Are you 21 or older?
You must be of legal age to view this site. Your answer is remembered on this device.
Your logo, your colors, your wording.
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Privacy & your data
Get a copy of the information associated with your account.
Submit requestThis is permanent. Order history and saved preferences cannot be restored.
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Customer rights
Real privacy rights, not a boilerplate policy page.
Most platforms hand a retailer a placeholder policy and leave the actual rights unbuilt. Buddy ships the flows themselves inside the customer account: a request-my-data path for access requests, and a close-my-account path with a clear permanence warning before anything is deleted.
- Request-my-data flow for customer data-access requests.
- Close-my-account flow with an explicit permanence warning.
- Privacy Policy and Terms & Conditions as real, dated documents — not placeholder text.
The customer record behind these flows is the same one described on the CRM page.
Proof, not promises
Lab results your customers can actually check.
Certificate-of-analysis documents are managed by product category and published to the storefront, so a shopper who wants to see the numbers can see them. In a category where every brand claims quality, a verifiable document is the difference between a claim and evidence.
- Upload and organize COA documents by product category.
- Publish lab results publicly for customers to verify.
- Keep documents current without touching page code.
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Written for where you operate
State-specific compliance content, built in.
Cannabis rules are written state by state, and a generic national policy page helps nobody. Buddy ships real, populated state-specific legal and regulatory education content — live today for Arizona, Colorado, and Michigan — so a retailer doesn't have to research and write it from scratch.
Arizona
Live state-specific cannabis content
Colorado
Live state-specific cannabis content
Michigan
Live state-specific cannabis content
State pages are indexable, structured content — the same foundation described on the AI SEO page.
The new-visitor journey
Built for regulated retail from day one.
The age wall is the first step of a wider onboarding flow. A new visitor confirms their age, chooses whether they're shopping online or in store, and picks a location — and every one of those screens is yours to brand. Compliance and a good first impression end up being the same moment.
Age confirmation first
The wall stands in front of the store before any product is shown.
Online or in-store
Visitors say how they want to shop, so the storefront matches their intent.
Location selection
Menus, pricing, and pickup options resolve to the store they actually use.
Brandable throughout
Every step of the journey carries your logo, colors, and voice.
FAQ
Questions about compliance.
Is an age gate required by law in my state?
Requirements vary by state, and your own counsel or regulator is the right source for what applies to you. What Buddy does is make sure the tooling is already there: the age wall is on by default, the legal documents are real and dated, and the customer privacy flows exist from day one, so meeting a requirement is a configuration question rather than a build project.
Do I have to maintain any of this myself?
The infrastructure is maintained for you — the age gate, the privacy request flows, and the document framework all ship with the storefront. You stay in control of the content: your policy text, your lab documents, and your state content are yours to review and approve.
Can I customize the age gate?
Yes. It uses your logo, your colors, and your wording, so the first thing a visitor sees still looks like your brand rather than a generic interstitial.
How do lab results get published?
You upload certificate-of-analysis documents and organize them by product category, and they become publicly viewable on the storefront so a customer can check the results themselves instead of taking a claim on faith.
Is compliance tooling included or an add-on?
Included. The age wall, legal documents, privacy flows, lab-result management, and state content are part of the platform — there is no compliance plugin to license separately.
Buddy provides tooling and content, not legal advice. Your own counsel remains the authority on what your license and state require.
Covered from day one
See what ships with the storefront.
Book 30 minutes and we'll walk the age wall, the privacy flows, lab-result publishing, and the state content.