Configure LockOn – Content Restriction application on your Shopify Store

The Shopify LockOn - Content Restriction application allows you to lock your Shopify store and control who can access your pages, products, and collections on your Shopify store. You can restrict customers from accessing Shopify products/ pages/ blogs/ articles/ collections etc. based on their Shopify tags/ logged-in status or location etc. Using this application you can prevent bots and spammers from accessing your Shopify store, placing fake orders, or engaging in other malicious activities. To learn more about other features provided in our Shopify Lock On application, click here.

Pre-requisite: LockOn ‑ Content Restriction Application

To configure LockOn ‑ Restrict Store Content, you will have to install the miniOrange LockOn‑ Restrict Store Content Application on your store.

Shopify LockOn‑ Content Restriction

By miniOrange

miniOrange allows you to restrict access to your store's pages, products, collections, and so on. (both plus and minus).

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Step-by-Step Guide for Configuring Shopify LockOn- Content Restriction Application

After installing the LockOn- Content Restriction application on your store, you can configure the lock by following the steps below:

1. Configure the Name of your lock.

• Click on the Create Lock button as shown in the below screen. You will be navigated to the New Lock screen where you can configure your lock as needed.


• Enter the name you'd like to give to your lock in the Name field.

2. Configure the Content for Locking

You have multiple options to choose from for content locking. These options allow you to restrict access to selected content or grant users access to specific parts of your store. You can choose to apply restrictions to the entire store, specific pages, collections, etc. Understand each feature and select the one that suits your needs. Choose any option below and follow the provided steps:

3. Configure the Lock Criteria (options vary based on the content selected to restrict )

• Users will be permitted or restricted from accessing the locked content if they pass/fail this Lock Criteria.
• Click on the Criteria button under Control Access section.


• 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.
  • Country: Select this to create a lock based on countries.
  • States: Select this to create a lock based on states.
  • City: Select this to create a lock based on cities.
  • Passcode Lock: Select the passcode lock option to allow authorized users to have the password to access the locked content in the store.
  • Location: Select this to create a lock based on the location of the users.
  • IP Address: Select this if you want to restrict or allow store access based on IP addresses.
  • Email Domain: Select this if you want to restrict or allow store access based on the customer email domain.
  • Selected Customer: Select this to create a lock by defining customized criteria based on the customer object properties of Shopify.
  • Lock type for lock criteria: Based on the lock criteria you can either allow or restrict users from accessing the content.
  
  • For example if you choose the lock criteria as customer tag, then you can either allow or restrict users from accessing the content based on their customer tag.

4. Configure the behavior of the Lock (options vary based on the content selected to restrict )

• You can specify how the locked content behaves for users who don't meet the criteria defined above. Select the action from the list under the Handle unauthorized Access section.
• Redirect to login URL
• Redirect to the store page
• Custom HTML Code
• Redirect to another URL


• Click on Save.

5. Configure the Lock Scheduling

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

6. Configure modifications in the existing lock

• You can see the list of all locks that you have created on the dashboard.
• Edit Lock: To edit the lock, click on the Edit button in front of your created lock.


• Delete Lock: To delete the lock, click on the Delete button in front of your created lock.


• To create a new lock, click on the Create Lock button located in the upper right corner.

7. Configure Magic Link

Magic Link lets you share access to a locked page on your Shopify store with someone else easily. It is perfect for giving temporary access to specific pages of your store, making it super convenient and secure.

• Under Magic Links, click on Generate Magic Link.

• Enter the locked page for which you want to provide temporary access for. For example, let us provide access for "/pages/locked".
• Decide how long the link should work. For example, you can make the link valid for just 3 minutes or more, depending on your needs.
• Click on Add.

• Confirm the settings and click on Create.

• Copy and send this magic link to anyone you want to give access to. They can click on this link to directly access the locked page without needing any password.

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