How to lock your store content

Locking your store content is just as the app name suggests: "Easy".

Once you install the app, you will be greeted with a quick tutorial of the app features:

Now, you will get to the app's Dashboard, where you can create your first lock:

Once you press the button saying "Create First Lock", you will be taken to the lock creation wizard, which will allow you to choose all the features of your lock.

In this screen, you can give your new lock a name and a schedule to start, also you will be able to select who can access the locked content:

When selecting who can access the locked content, you will see the list:

he list includes:

1. Logged-in customers only: This means that only logged-in customers will be able to view the items locked by the lock you are creating.
2. Non-logged-in customers only: this means that only non-logged-in customers will be able to view the locked items.
3. Selected customers only: This means that only selected customers will be able to view the locked items.
4. Everyone except selected customers: this one means that selected customers will not be able to view the locked items.
5. Customers from selected locations only: this means that customers who are located in selected countries will be able to view the locked items.
6. Everyone except selected locations: this means that customers who are located in selected countries will not be able to view the locked items.
7. Any visitor with a password or access link: this type of lock provides you with a password and an access link. Only customers you share the password or the access link with will be able to view the locked items.

For the "Selected Customers" option, choosing that option will open a new selection window for you where you can select the customers based on several filters, either by a rule or by manual selection:

When you choose "By Rule" and go to the "Select a filter" menu, you would see this list:

This list allows you to select the customers based on several filters.

1. Money spent: This will select the customers based on the total amount of money spent in your store.
2. Number of orders: This will select the customers based on the total number of orders they made on your store.
3. Placed an order: this will select the customers who made at least one successful order on your store within a time frame (last week, last month, etc.)
4. Accepts Marketing: This will select the customers who did not opt out of your marketing emails.
5. Tagged with: this will select the customers who are tagged with a certain tag.
6. Located in: This will select the customers based on their shipping address and not based on their actual geo-location.
7. Ordered products: this will select customers based on the products they have ordered a certain product through your store before.

Under each of these Filters, there would be some selections you would need to complete. For instance, under the "Tagged with", you will be asked to fill in the tag you want to choose.

After selecting the filter, you also have the option to make combined filters: like choosing customers who "placed an order" and "tagged with".

You can also make multi-option filters, like choosing customers who "Accept marketing" or "spent a total of $500"

You also have a small red recycle bin button on the left side of each rule to delete it if you want.

Next, you will be asked to choose the content to lock:

You have four selections for content to lock, based on the selection you made on the previous step:

1. Whole Website: This option would lock all of your store.
2. Selected content: this would allow you to choose which items you want to lock (products, collections, pages, etc).
3. Hide purchase form: This allows you to hide the purchase form, preventing the locked items from being purchased.
4. Prices: this hides all the prices from your store.

Each of these four selections has a list of options where you can choose what to lock and what to exclude, except for the pricing, which can only be locked store-wide.

After selecting the options of what to lock or exclude, you will see the "Additional Settings"; this is to allow you to customize the page the visitor sees when attempting to view a locked item:

Once you have selected all the lock options, you will need to choose the lock behaviour, which is what the lock will do when a visitor attempts to visit a locked item:

The Lock Behaviour has three selections that are the same for all locks except for the price lock. It also has an option to hide locked listings from all collections and from the store search results.

The three lock behaviour selections are:

1. Redirect to login page: will redirect the visitor attempting to visit locked items to the login page.
2. Redirect to page: will redirect the visitor attempting to visit locked items to a page within the store.
3. Redirect to a URL: will redirect the visitor attempting to visit locked items to a link outside the store.

The Lock Behaviour for the prices lock is a bit different, as it does not have the "Hide locked listings" option, and also the three options are a bit different:

1. None - Price hidden: The price is completely hidden; the visitor would see the locked item without a price listed.
2. Redirect guests to login: That would redirect all non-logged-in visitors to the login page in order to log in to their accounts.
3. Redirect to page: That would redirect the visitor to a page within the store.

Once you are done choosing all the options and features of your lock, you want to make sure that it is enabled, just like the screenshot below:

Once done, make sure to hit save at the top of the page to save your lock:

Updated on: 10/29/2025