Hello Shopify Folks, 
Welcome back to our brand-new Shopify tutorial.
Today in this tutorial, we will learn about Shopify’s password protect feature for your Shopify store.
Shopify is the best platform where businesses can start their own online website. The functions and customer satisfaction offered by Shopify are unparallel. Shopify password protection is one of the best Shopify functionality.
While managing an eCommerce business, it is not mandatory to make every website page accessible to all your customers. Some pages hold confidential reports that are not supposed to be accessed by your customers. For you need to secure your store with a unique password.
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- 1 Importance of Password Protection for Shopify
- 2 How to add Shopify Password Protect for your Store
- 3 How to Enable the Shopify Password Protection?
- 4 Securing the Tutorial
Importance of Password Protection for Shopify
eCommerce websites hold data that are to be saved from cyber attackers and competitors from being stolen. That is the reason why you need to have password protection for Shopify store.
Also, if your Shopify website is under certain development changes and needs some testing during that time for which, you were required to make a new product collection or new website page for that in your store. These things are not needed to be shared with customers, and that’s when you need Shopify password protection.
How to add Shopify Password Protect for your Store
Step 1 –
Navigate to Shopify Admin > Online Store > Preferences
Step 2 –
In the Preferences, go to Password Protection.
Step 3 –
Enter your desired password in its required field.
Step 4 –
Enter a Message for your visitors.
If you want to add any personalized message for your visitors to see on the password page, you can add it from here.
♦ Note:
It is not mandatory to include a message, so you can leave this field blank if you prefer.
Step 5 –
After filling out both fields, Save your settings.
How to Enable the Shopify Password Protection?
For this, follow Step 1 and Step 2 as they are.
In the Password Protection section, there is a checkbox providing you an option whether to Restrict access to visitors with the password or not.
If you want to restrict access, select the checkbox.
If you do not want to restrict access, leave the checkbox unselected or unselect the checkbox.
Once you are done with the changes, Save your settings and proceed.
♦ Note:
You can enable and disable the password protection for Shopify from here itself.
Securing the Tutorial
That was so damn easy! 
Protect your Shopify store from spammers and cyber attackers by enabling this amazing and helpful Shopify password protection feature.
We hope our tutorial was helpful to you with password protection for your Shopify store.
If you encounter any issues while setting up your password protection, please don’t hesitate to reach out to our Shopify developers. We are here to help.
Happy Shopifying! 