You have added your products, made your theme perfect and now you are ready to launch your new site to the world, but where is the launch button on Shopify?
In order to actually “launch” your Shopify store, you will need to remove what is called your password page. Your password page is the screen you see that looks similar to this:
If you cleared the “How to steps” with your new Shopify store on the admin dashboard then you will need to actually go to the online store preference page to remove the password page and make your website accessible.
What is the Shopify Password Page
The Shopify password page allows you to collect email addresses before your launch, and allow access to the website work in progress using – a password. You have the option to customize this page with a picture and all of your design settings that you added during the theme customization stage of building your store will carry over to your password page.
How to remove your Shopify password page
The Shopify password page allows you to collect email addresses before your launch, and allow access to the website work in progress using – a password. You have the option to customize this page with a picture and all of your design settings that you added during the theme customization stage of building your store will carry over to your password page.
Step #1 - Open your online store preferences
Step #2 - Click Preferences
Step #3- Go to “Password Protection” section
Step #4- Uncheck “Enable Password”
Watch the process
Video Transcript:
[00:00:00] Hey everyone, this is Jess from Non-Techie Entrepreneur. If this is your first time visiting my channel, thank you for watching.
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[00:19:49] In this video, we will be going over how to remove your Shopify password page. Now, once you complete the steps of getting your store live, which will be adding products, customizing your theme, adding your domain, you will need to go ahead and actually make your store live for your customers. If your password page is on, I think you will actually see one that says the store is password protected. I use the password to enter the store. So your customers will need to have the password in order to shop your store. So, to disable this, you will be able to go to online store, preferences, and this will open up the preference section of your online store. And you can scroll down to take the password off here. Now, since this is a development store, I am unable to disable it, but this is the section where you’ll see password protection. You’ll be able to put in a password or update it, add a message for your visitors and click disable password. So, you will undo the check and you will click save and that will allow you to take away that Shopify password page for your store.
