Carded was built by a former Virginia Alcoholic Beverage Control Special Agent, someone who spent their career on the enforcement side of age-restricted sales and knows exactly what a compliance check looks for. It is the tool we wished every retailer had, fast, foolproof, and built to keep your license safe.
Checking an ID should be the simple part of a sale. But in the real world it is a rushed mental-math problem under bad lighting: subtract 21 years, squint at a birth date, and hope you got it right. One slip can mean a fine, a failed compliance check, or a threat to a hard-won liquor or tobacco license. We know, because we were the ones checking.
Carded takes the guesswork out. Scan the barcode on the back of any US or Canadian ID and you get an instant, unambiguous answer: a green pass or a red stop, the expiration checked, the age done for you. It runs on the phone already in your pocket, no special hardware, no app store, no training, and it keeps a clean record so you can prove you carded every customer.
A check that takes a second keeps your line moving and your staff focused on service, not math.
Scanning runs on the device. Customer data is never uploaded or sold, so there is nothing to breach.
No hardware to buy and nothing to install. If your staff can take a photo, they can run Carded.
Carded reads the data a barcode contains and calculates age. It does not claim to detect a forged ID or make the sale decision for you, that call always stays with your team. Our job is to make the honest, everyday check effortless, so you can card every customer, every time, whether it is at the counter or at the door.
Start free in seconds on the phone you already carry. No hardware, no contracts, cancel anytime.