Password protection lets specific people past your Coming Soon page and into the real storefront, while everyone else still sees the page. It is how you give a partner, a photographer, a wholesale buyer, or your own team a look at the store before it opens.
This is not Shopify's password pageShopify has its own store-wide password feature, and it must be turned off
for this app to work at all. The password described here is a separate one, set inside the
app. See Disabling
Shopify's password protection.
Set a password
- Open Coming Soon in your Shopify admin.
- Go to the Settings tab.
- Under Password Protection, tick Enable Password Protection.
- Type the password you want to hand out into the Password field.
- Click Save.
The password is shared — one password for the whole store, not one per person. Change it whenever you want to revoke access; anyone still using the old one is locked back out.
How visitors use it
Your Coming Soon page shows a small lock icon or a password link, depending on the template and how you have styled it. A visitor clicks it, types the password, and is sent through to your storefront.
Access sticks for that visitor’s browsing session, so they will not be asked again on every page.
Change the wordingEvery template has Password field placeholder, Password submit button text, and Password link override text settings in the editor. Setting the last one replaces the lock icon with the words you choose — useful if a plain icon is not obvious enough to the people you are sending.
If the password does not let anyone through
- Check the app is the only thing gating the store. If Shopify’s own password protection is also on, entering the app’s password will still leave the visitor on Shopify’s page.
- Try a private window. A browser that already has a session can mask whether the password works for someone arriving fresh.
- Re-save the password. If it was set and then the checkbox was unticked, the field is disabled and no password is in force.
