The law surrounding the sale of age restricted goods to underage children is tightening globally. In particular the effects of alcohol on children have been highlighted across many countries and cultures. Governments with the support of police and local authorities have passed new legislation which in many cases has placed the responsibility to not serve underage firmly with the retailer rather that the child who is attempting to break the law.

How does Agesafe PST work

Since January 29th 2010 there has been a two strikes and you are out policy in the UK. Meaning that a vendor caught selling alcohol to a child twice in a two month period will automatically face losing its license. In mthe UK from October 2010 it will become illegal to serve someone alcohol that appears to be 18 years old who does not produce an ID with a Hologram. Agesafe PST is The CHALLENGE 25 System.

Agesafe PST is The Challenge 25 system that will record each challenged transaction through ID scanners capable of reading 2600+ passport, driving licenses and identity documents from more than 142 countries. You can ask the your customer to place their own ID on the scanner to verify their age and if you upgrade to authentication, to verify that it is genuine. Each transaction is recorded by the built in HD CCTV from upto four different camera angles creating a one minute before and one minute after transaction chapter. This method ensures that the correct age verification procedures are being carried out by your customers and that your full challenges, refusals and proxy purchase logs are maintained.

Agesafe PST products use up to 4 High Definition low light level CCTV cameras to capture and store with audio the age challenge. Your CCTV can be stored up to the normal requirement of 28 days or can be automatically purged at 7, 14 or 21 days. Agesafe PST records the minute before an ID challenge and the minute after a challenge, enabling you to review challenges to ensure correct procedures have taken place. Thus ensuring that illegitimate sales have not taken place, but importantly that you have not lost legitimate sales. You can watch your CCTV footage remotely through the internet or even from your iPhone. You can take individual stills and either print, email or mms the image.

Once your customer has brought their ID to your operation once, the customer can opt to join your age verification scheme by scanning their electronic fingerprint on the fingerprint scanner. Each time your customer returns to your establishment they simply place their finger on the scanner and this is verified against the original ID. All original ID's are pixilated to protect data. If you have a group of stores or a nationwide chain you can network Agesafe PST so that your customers can visit each of your branches, confident in the knowledge they will not be embarrassed by a sale refusal and without the inconvenience of needing to bring valuable ID documents such as passports to your establishment.

Agesafe PST will read identity documents from around the world including all USA, Australian and Canadian documents. Please click here to see the full list of identity documents that can be processed bt the Agesafe PST system. Ultra-violet, Infrared and Biometric

Agesafe PST is the only system with the option for full ID verification, checking and validating IDs and spotting and alerting to fake ID's. Agesafe PST checks and verifies 42 points on an ID card including infrared and UV searches, RFID chipd and in the US digital watermarks

Each age restricted transaction is automatically recorded individually by each cashier, even sales without ID, building useful statisfics and reports. As each session is closed you can receive an automatic sms and email of the sessions statistics - click here for sample reports.

Read about ID scanning from more than 270 documents including fake ID detection by visiting our Agesafe ID product page.