Selling high-risk products like CBD, kratom, or vapes comes with a long list of regulatory obligations. But while many sellers focus on product quality, packaging, or sales, there’s one crucial area that’s often overlooked:
Ongoing legal compliance at the point of sale.
That’s not something your ecommerce platform can handle on its own—and it’s why we built WAAVECompliance.
Platforms Weren’t Built for This Industry
If you’re using e-commerce platforms, like WooCommerce, you already know how powerful they are for online sales. But these platforms were built for general retail. They don’t account for the legal complexity high-risk products bring to the table—especially when laws differ by state or city.
Your store might look fine to customers, but behind the scenes, it could be processing orders that are out of bounds.
Laws Change—Your Store Should Adapt Automatically
Regulations shift constantly. A product that’s allowed today may be restricted tomorrow. One state may introduce new cannabinoid caps, while another bans kratom altogether. Without a system that updates and enforces those rules in real time, you’re left exposed.
WAAVECompliance acts as a legal filter built into your store. It applies current federal, state, and city laws to each transaction and automatically blocks purchases that don’t meet legal requirements.
What WAAVECompliance Does
- Comprehensive Regulation Sync
- Automatically and in real-time revises compliance protocols to match product regulations.
- Eliminates the need for manual compliance checks, with seamless audited features.
- Minimizes risk of penalties and legal issues with financial institutions and federal state governments
It runs quietly in the background—but it’s doing one of the most important jobs in your business: keeping you compliant.
How It Differs from WAAVE’s Payment Solutions
WAAVE offers both platform compliance tools and compliant payment processing, but in different ways:
- WAAVECompliance ensures that your ecommerce store enforces the law at checkout, blocking restricted products and shipments based on current regulations.
- WAAVE’s compliant payment solutions, on the other hand, are built to ensure that every transaction is processed within the law, through banking partners who understand and support regulated high-risk industries.
In short: one keeps your storefront legally aligned, the other provides payment solutions already legally aligned.
No Guesswork, No Legal Surprises
WAAVECompliance is about making sure your store enforces the right rules at the right time. That way, you’re not relying on outdated spreadsheets or hoping customers only buy what they’re supposed to.
It’s built specifically for regulated high-risk sellers—because generic ecommerce tools aren’t enough when you’re working in a high-risk category.
