Terms and age alert on entry

The Accept Terms Alert shows a pop-up the first time someone visits your marketplace. It contains a page you write, with two buttons: I accept and No. Visitors who accept can use the site; visitors who choose No are sent away to Google.

Use it for:

• an age notice on marketplaces for alcohol, tobacco, firearms or adult items (“You must be 18 or over to enter”);
• house rules or a disclaimer you want every visitor to see once;
• a regional notice, such as “This marketplace is for residents of Ireland only”.

Set it up

1. Write the text as a page: go to Pages, create a page and give it a clear title (the title becomes the heading of the pop-up). See Pages.
2. Go to Settings › General.
3. In Access & privacy, choose your page in Accept Terms Alert.
4. Click Save changes.

Open your site in a private browser window to see the pop-up as a new visitor would.

To switch the alert off, set Accept Terms Alert back to Deactivated and save.

How it behaves

• The pop-up appears on any page of your site until the visitor clicks I accept.
• Accepting is remembered in that browser, so returning visitors aren’t asked again. Someone who clears their cookies or uses another device sees it again.
• No and the close button send the visitor to google.com.
• The pop-up works in all current themes.

Write the page so it makes sense on its own and ends with what accepting means, for example “By clicking I accept you confirm you are 18 or over and agree to our house rules.”

Other “accept” settings, and how they differ

Setting	Where	Who sees it
Accept Terms Alert	Settings › General	Every visitor, once, on entry.
Terms of Service	Listings › Settings	Sellers, as an “I agree” box on the post-a-listing and sign-up forms.
Cookie Consent	Settings › General	Every visitor, as a cookie banner. See Cookie consent.

Related guides

• Pages — write the page shown in the alert.
• Cookie consent and privacy — the cookie banner.
• Private site — if only members should see your site at all.