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Merchant Payments
Lost Coast Aminos
- WordPress
- Merchant Account
- Payment Gateway
- Compliance Gate
A research-grade peptide brand could not get a mainstream processor to approve card payments for its category, leaving a store that could list products and certificates of analysis but not reliably take an order.
- Project type
- Payments & storefront
- Platform
- WordPress + WooCommerce
- Category
- Research peptides
- Live site
- lostcoastaminos.com
Solution
We resolved the merchant-account problem so the store could accept card payments, on a research-use-only storefront with a 21+ age gate, required research accounts for purchases, and batch-level certificates of analysis available for download.
Cards
Payments Unblocked
merchant approval issue resolved
21+
Age Gate
plus required research accounts
COA
Batch Certificates
downloadable by batch number
What we did
- Set up credit card payment processing for the store
- Added crypto payments alongside cards, so customers can pay in cryptocurrency
- Built a lab-testing education section covering LC-MS, endotoxin and heavy metals
- Account-gated purchase flow for every listed compound
Key features
- Dedicated COA page
- New Arrivals, Best Sellers and Back in Stock sections
- "Understanding Our Research" lab-testing education section
- Account-gated purchases
- FAQ section
- Navigation and legal & policy pages in the footer
The site, top to bottom
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