Closing for vacations

Although Shopify doesn't have a vacation setting, there are two ways that you can temporarily close your store to the general public, depending on how long you expect to be pausing sales.

Short-term solution: Password protect your store

If you want to temporarily stop visitors from accessing your store, then you can password protect your online store. Password protection means that, without a password, customers won't be able to:

• Access your site
• View products
• View pages
• Complete orders

When a customer navigates to your site, a password page displays along with a customizable message explaining why the store is temporarily closed.

Learn how to activate and customize your password page in Password protection for your online store.

Long-term solution: Pause and Build

The Pause and Build plan keeps your store online and accessible to visitors, but disables the checkout. You can access your Shopify admin and edit your products or online store, but customers can't make any purchases.

Pausing your store reduces your subscription fee to $9 USD per month. However, when you decide to unpause, you'll need to select a new plan, as your old plan is no longer valid. Third-party apps with recurring charges also remain active, so you might want to consider uninstalling any apps that you don't plan to use during the time your store is paused.

You can pause your store on the Plan page in the Settings section of your Shopify admin.

Learn more about pausing your store.