Shariah Compliancy Terms

1. Purpose and scope

Storelink by BirrCommerce ("Storelink", "we", "us") provides Shariah-conscious commerce primitives — honest pricing structures, interest-free fixed-schedule installments, profit-share pricing mode, zakat-aware reporting and charitable round-ups — as an optional layer a merchant may adopt. Nothing in these Shariah Terms replaces the merchant’s own judgment or their obligation to seek qualified scholarly guidance where they need certainty.

These Shariah Terms apply to every merchant account and to all content a merchant publishes through the platform: products, collections, product media, blog posts, custom pages, FAQs, docs, banners, popups, campaigns and any merchant-configured messaging.

2. Prohibited trades and content

Merchants must not offer, promote, or direct checkout toward the following on Storelink:

• Riba-based credit: selling on credit with an interest charge, financing that compounds, or any late-fee structure that functions as interest. Fixed-price deferred schedules with no added charge are permitted.
• Gambling, lotteries, raffles with paid entry, betting, and games of chance for money.
• Intoxicants of any kind, including alcohol and recreational drugs, and paraphernalia whose primary purpose is their use.
• Pork and pork-derived food products; non-halal meat presented as halal.
• Adult content, sexually explicit media or services, and escort services.
• Occult services, sorcery, astrology and fortune-telling offered as real services.
• Scams, counterfeit goods, plagiarized or fraudulently represented products, and deceptive earnings claims.
• Financial products that charge or pay interest (conventional loans, interest-bearing investment schemes).

3. Honesty in trade

Deception (gharar and ghihar) is prohibited: merchants must describe products truthfully, disclose material defects, state prices and fees plainly, avoid false scarcity ("only 2 left!" when untrue), avoid pressure manipulation, and honor what they advertise. Reviews must come from genuine customers; incentivized or fabricated reviews are not permitted.

Storefront copy, images and campaigns must not exploit fear, false religious endorsement, or fake testimonials. If a claim can’t be substantiated, it doesn’t belong on the storefront.

4. Platform commitments

Storelink charges flat subscription plans and takes 0% commission on merchant sales — the platform never takes a cut of a merchant’s revenue.

Interest-free installments on Storelink are fixed-price deferrals: the total a customer pays is the price at checkout, divided across a transparent schedule with no added charge and no compounding. Storelink’s own billing uses the same principle.

Profit-share pricing mode lets a merchant split a product’s profit transparently with a named partner at a fixed percentage — documented on the order line, never hidden.

Zakat-aware reporting computes zakat-eligible net position from the merchant’s own inventory, receivables and payables data with the merchant’s own nisab and hawl inputs. Storelink provides arithmetic and reporting; it issues no religious rulings.

Charitable round-ups collect only what the customer explicitly opts into at checkout and are remitted to the merchant’s configured verified causes.

5. Screening and enforcement

The platform operates a built-in compliance screener that reviews merchant content at save time (products, media, blog, pages, campaigns and more) using rule-based patterns and, where enabled, AI-assisted classification. Screening is assistive, not infallible: it flags likely violations for human review and can act on confident, severe matches.

When a potential violation is found, a case is opened in the Violation & Resolution Center visible to the merchant (and to platform administrators). Merchants can resolve, appeal, or contest every case. Severe confirmed violations may result in content removal, store restriction, or suspension per the Terms of Service.

Merchants may report storefront content they believe violates these terms through the report surfaces in their dashboard and on storefronts.

6. Your acknowledgment

By accepting these Shariah Terms during signup (and after any material revision), you confirm that you have read the complete document — every section above — and agree to operate your store within this standard while you use Storelink.

A record of your acceptance (account, terms version, timestamp) is retained as part of the platform’s audit trail. If the version below changes, you will be asked to review and re-accept before continuing to use the dashboard.

7. Questions and rulings

These Shariah Terms state a conduct standard; they are not fatwas and do not substitute for a merchant’s own scholarly counsel. Where this document and a merchant’s qualified scholarly guidance appear to conflict, the merchant may contact support — but content that falls plainly within Section 2 remains prohibited on the platform.

Questions about these terms, reports, and appeals are handled through the Violation & Resolution Center and platform support.