Beverage compliance verification

No. Most state DTC permits require both order-time age verification (Stile's role) AND adult-signature-on-delivery (the carrier's role). The two steps cover different threats — order-time verification prevents underage orders from being placed; delivery-time signature prevents the verified buyer's package being received by an underage person at the address. The audit trail state ABC boards review combines both events.

Operator-side. Stile produces a verified identity assertion (DOB hash, document number hash, jurisdiction) reachable via the verification-result API; the operator's order management system pulls that assertion and uses it as the primary key to track per-buyer cumulative volume against the state's cap. State permits typically cap volume per calendar year (CA: 60 cases wine, TX: 9 gallons spirits-equivalent, etc.). The operator's compliance team configures the cap; Stile contributes the verified-identity primary key.

Operator. Stile's SDK can be conditional on state (only fire verification for states the operator is permitted in), but the gate-or-allow decision is the operator's. Stile returns eligibility for verified states; operators handle the address-level state validation against their permit footprint. Some operators ship through fulfillment partners with multi-state permits — that's a fulfillment-side concern, not a verification-side concern.

Yes via the returning-user pattern. The first order's verification produces a per-customer audit pointer; subsequent renewals reference that pointer rather than re-running full verification. Most state ABC boards accept this pattern as long as the original verification's cryptographic audit trail is intact and the renewal is to the same shipping address. State-specific re-verification cadence (some states require annual re-verification) is configurable.

A few states allow a verified-adult parent to consent to alcohol delivery on behalf of an of-age child living at the same address (rare — typically only in college-town carve-outs). Stile can verify each party (parent and child) as separate adult / of-age assertions; combining those into a parental-consent audit trail is currently operator-side — Stile does not yet ship a built-in parental-consent flow. Most operators don't enable this anyway — it's a niche flow for a small number of state permits.