Built for Independent Shopify Merchants
The compliance gap
After the 2018 South Dakota v. Wayfair Supreme Court decision, every U.S. state with a sales tax adopted economic nexus rules. Overnight, selling online into other states created potential tax registration obligations that most small merchants had no idea existed.
At the same time, state consumer privacy laws began passing across the country — California, Texas, Colorado, Virginia, and more — each with different thresholds, rights, and enforcement priorities.
Large retailers hired compliance teams and legal counsel to navigate this. Independent Shopify merchants had Google.
Clarity, not complexity
Regulens was built to give independent Shopify merchants the same compliance visibility that large retailers get from expensive legal teams — at a fraction of the cost, in plain English, with every finding traced to an official government source.
We are not lawyers. Regulens does not provide legal advice and never will. What we provide is a structured, informational readiness check that helps you understand where to focus your attention before you speak to a professional.
How we maintain accuracy
Every data point in Regulens traces to an official government source — state revenue departments for sales tax, state attorney general offices for privacy law. We review high-priority jurisdictions weekly and update our database whenever laws change.
Our Data Verification dashboard shows the live status of all 39 jurisdictions including last-verified dates and clickable source links.
What we will always do
Every finding links to the official government URL. You can verify anything we tell you.
We tell you clearly what we do not cover. Federal laws, industry rules, and municipal regulations are explicitly outside our scope.
We will never tell you that you are legally required to do something. We surface information. You and your advisors make decisions.