Lock Shopify Store - Content Restriction for Shopify

General Description

Locking means restricting the users from accessing locked content on the Shopify store.

Lock Criteria

Based on the criteria you can restrict users from accessing the content such as users must be logged in to access the content, users must have specific customer tags to access the content, users have a passcode to access the content, or users must be from a specific location to access the content.

Step 1: Install application on your Shopify store.

• Click on the Add Application button to add the lock on the application.

• Click on the Install App button to install the application on your Shopify store.

Step 2 : Start Locking

• Click on the Start Locking button. You will be redirected to the New Lock section in the upper navbar.

Step 3 : Select the type of content on which you want to create a lock.

• Entire Store : Selecting this will create a lock on the Entire Store.
• Selected Content : Selecting this will allow you to create a lock on content from templates like Products, Collections, Blogs, Pages etc.
• Price : Select this If you want to Hide Prices for customers who fail the defined Lock criteria.
• Purchase Form : Select this If you want to Hide the Purchase Form for customers who fail the defined Lock Criteria.


• Select the template and Enable the button as shown in the image below if you want to create a lock on this template.
• Let’s say you want to create a lock on Products. Then click on Enable to create a lock on products.
• You can select multiple items to include in Content to be Locked. You can also select content from multiple templates by simply enabling the button and selecting the content in that respective template.

• After Selecting the content that you want to lock, click on Create Lock button.

Step 4 : Schedule Lock

• You can choose the Immediately option to make the lock active immediately after creating the lock.
• If you want the lock to be active on specific days of a week or a month then you can schedule the lock.

Step 5 : Set the Lock Criteria, Users will be restricted to access the locked content if they fail this Lock Criteria

• Click on the Edit Key button.

• Select the lock criteria.
  • Logged in user : Select this to create a lock based on Logged-In users and Non-logged-in users.
  • Customer Tag : Select this to create a lock based on specific customer tags.
  • Passcode Lock : Select the passcode lock option to allow authorized users having the password to access the locked content on the store.
  • Location : Select this to create a lock based on the location of the users.
  • Selected Customer : Select this to create a lock by defining customized criteria based on the customer object properties of Shopify.
  
  
  • Based on the lock criteria ( let’s say customer tag) you can either allow or restrict users from accessing the content.
  
  • Click on the Save Key button.

Step 6 : How to Lock?

• You can define the behavior of the locked page for the users who fail the lock criteria defined above.
  • Redirect to login URL
  • Redirect to store page
  • Custom HTML Code
  • Redirect to another URL

• Click on Save.
• You can see the list of all locks that you have created on the dashboard. You can Enable, Disable, Edit Lock, and Delete Lock for any lock from the dashboard.