Tex's Peps
An online store where nobody sees a price until a human approves them.
Members-only store. The public view shows the access gate. Catalog, pricing, and member content are not reproduced here.
What this had to solve.
Build a storefront for a category where you cannot simply let anyone browse, buy, and check out. Access had to be earned through an application and manual approval, age had to be verified before anything at all was shown, and the whole thing had to work in two languages.
What was built
- A membership gate where guests see an access explanation instead of a catalog
- An application and manual approval workflow with a stated 24 to 48 hour review window
- An age verification gate presented before site content
- A bilingual English and Spanish interface
- A customer referral system
- Custom payment gateway integration for a category standard processors decline
- An account reactivation path for lapsed members
- A custom child theme over a commercial parent theme
- Type
- Gated ecommerce
- Access
- Approval required
- Languages
- English, Spanish
- Stack
- WooCommerce
Technology
- WordPress
- WooCommerce
- Blocksy theme with child theme
- Age verification
- Custom payment gateways
- Cloudflare
Verified from the live site where publicly detectable.
The parts that do the work.
Approval-gated commerce
Products, pricing, and ordering are all reserved for verified members. Guests get a clear explanation of how to get in rather than a dead end.
Age verification
A 21 and over gate with a remember-me option, applied ahead of content.
Bilingual interface
Full English and Spanish language switching.
Referral system
Existing members can refer new applicants into the approval queue.
Alternative payment processing
Integration with payment gateways that serve categories mainstream processors will not.
Clear compliance framing
Research-use-only language stated site wide and in the footer.
Why it matters for your project.
Different business, same underlying capability.
- WordPress and WooCommerce development beyond a stock theme install
- Access control layered over an ecommerce platform
- Manual approval workflows and customer lifecycle states
- Multilingual site delivery
- Payment integration for difficult merchant categories
Services involved
Tell me what you are trying to build.
Describe it however makes sense to you. Working out what it is called and how it gets built is my job, not yours.