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While your store is password protected, every visitor lands on the password page. Facet shows a simple card with your logo, a short title, your message and a password field. The page has no header or footer and no settings of its own: its content comes from your theme logo and your Shopify admin. This page explains where each part comes from and how to turn the lock on or off.
The Password section as it appears on the Facet demo storefront.

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What the page shows

  • Your logo, from the theme’s logo setting. Without a logo, the page shows your store name in text.
  • The title “This shop is private”.
  • Your message, the text you write in your Shopify admin. Without one, the line is left out.
  • A password field with an Enter button. A wrong password shows an error above the field.

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Getting started

1

Turn on password protection

In your Shopify admin, open Online Store, then Preferences. Under Password protection, turn on Restrict access to visitors with the password, set a password and click Save.
2

Write your message

On the same screen, fill in Message for your visitors, for example a launch date. Click Save.
3

Check the logo

In the Theme Customizer, open Theme settings, then Logo, and pick the logo the password page should show.
4

Preview the page

In the page selector at the top of the Customizer, choose Password to see the page as visitors will.
The theme editor with the Password section selected in the sidebar, its settings panel open on the left and the section highlighted in the preview.
Theme editor sidebar showing the Password section settings: Theme Settings, Custom CSS.
To open your store to everyone, go back to Online Store, then Preferences, turn off Restrict access to visitors with the password and click Save.
Stores on a free trial can’t remove the password until they pick a paid plan.

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Best practices

  • Tell visitors when you open. A date or a season in the message answers the first question they have.
  • Upload a logo. The logo makes a locked store look intentional rather than unfinished.
  • Share the password with testers only. Anyone with the password sees the full store, including prices.

Logo

Set the logo shown on the password page.

Introduction

Get to know Facet before you open your store.