Selling CBD on Shopify means renting a store that can close any day.
You can technically list hemp products on Shopify - but Shopify Payments, Stripe and PayPal won't process CBD at all, so you already depend on a third-party processor. And even fully compliant merchants, selling federally legal hemp under 0.3% THC, report account terminations with little warning. For CBD, this is not a one-time vape-style ban. It is a slow-motion one: you live one policy shift away from losing payments, your store, or both.
We build and migrate CBD and hemp stores onto a self-hosted stack where you own the catalog, the customer relationships and the payment setup - so no single provider can end your business.
Why CBD is a permanent risk on Shopify
- Payments don't work natively. Shopify Payments does not support hemp, CBD or THC, so you must run a compatible third-party gateway just to take money.
- Compliance is on you, enforced by them. Shopify requires an attestation, all applicable licenses, and under-0.3%-THC products - and can terminate for any perceived breach.
- Marijuana and over-0.3% THC are fully banned under the Acceptable Use Policy.
- Sudden shutdowns happen. Compliant CBD merchants have been given short notice to move an entire business elsewhere.
The pattern is the same as every rented platform: your category is tolerated until a policy or a payment partner decides it isn't.
What we migrate
Full CBD and hemp catalog, including:
- CBD oil, tinctures and drops
- CBD topicals, balms and creams
- CBD cosmetics and skincare
- CBD gummies and edibles
- CBD capsules and softgels
- CBD for pets
- Hemp flower and full-spectrum / broad-spectrum ranges
- Minor cannabinoids (CBG, CBN)
Plus customers, order history, reviews, content and SEO URLs with 301 redirects.
What you get on self-hosted (Magento / Adobe Commerce / Hyva)
- Payment freedom. Connect CBD-friendly high-risk gateways directly. If one processor changes its mind, you switch - you don't lose the store.
- You own the data. Customer list and order history live in your database.
- Compliance built in. Age verification, COA / lab-result display, per-region shipping rules and disclaimers, handled the way regulators in each market expect.
- EU and US ready. We handle multi-region setups, including EU rules such as novel food considerations and per-country legality.
- A fast, brand-led storefront - CBD is a trust purchase, and a premium Hyva storefront converts better than a locked-down template.
Case study: hemptouch.com
hemptouch.com is a CBD and hemp cosmetics brand running on a self-hosted stack - proof that a regulated, global CBD store can operate on infrastructure the brand actually controls, instead of waiting for a payment partner or platform to change its mind.
- SEO / organic search: hemptouch, the CBD and hemp brand we run on a self-hosted stack, sells worldwide through hemptouch.com, grows its organic search traffic and ranks on Google for competitive CBD and skincare terms - a regulated CBD store scaling on infrastructure it controls.
The point for a CBD merchant reading this: this is a live, working example of the exact thing you need - a compliant CBD store that no acceptable use policy can delist.
How the migration works
- Audit of your current store, catalog and payment setup.
- Full data migration with SEO-preserving redirects.
- Rebuild on Magento / Adobe Commerce / Hyva.
- CBD-friendly payments, age verification and compliance flows connected.
- Launch, hosting, maintenance and support.
Free migration on larger projects - ask us about absorbing the migration cost.
