LocksmithAccess control for Shopify
Lock anything in your store. Decide exactly who gets in.
Put a lock on a product, collection, page, price, or your whole Online Store. Add keys that open it, each built from conditions: a customer tag, a passcode, a secret link, a location, a purchase history. Everyone else sees a sign-in prompt, a passcode form, or a message you write.
15-day free trial · suggested price from $12/month · no theme code required
- Built for Shopify
- 4.7★ from 306 reviews
- 2025 Shopify Build Award winner
- Helping merchants since 2014
Example lock
Lock: the Wholesale collection.
Key: one condition, the customer is tagged with wholesale.
A signed-in wholesale buyer sees the collection. A new visitor is asked to sign in. A retail customer sees a message pointing them to your wholesale application.
- 4.7★
- from 306 reviews on the Shopify App Store
- 20+
- conditions to build keys from
- 2014
- the year Locksmith first launched
- 15 days
- free trial, on every plan
How it works
Three ideas: locks, keys, and conditions.
A lock decides what's restricted. Keys are the ways in. Conditions say what has to be true for a key to work. Your theme updates within seconds of saving, and many stores are set up in a few minutes.
1 · Lock
What to protect
A product, a collection, a page, a blog, a vendor, search, the cart, or the entire store.
2 · Keys
The ways in
Give a lock one key or several. Any key that works opens the lock, so each one is a different way in.
3 · Conditions
What must be true
Each key holds one or more conditions, like "is tagged wholesale" or "gives the passcode". A key works only when all of its conditions are met.
Lock Wholesale collection
Key 1
- Customer is tagged with
wholesale - and is visiting from the United States
Key 2
- Visitor gives the passcode
TRADESHOW
What you can lock
Anything in your Online Store.
Lock one resource, or put many products, collections, or pages under a single named lock. Lock the whole store and leave the home page, policies, or customer pages open.
- Entire store
- Products
- Products by tag
- Collections
- All products
- Product variants
- Vendors
- Pages
- Blogs
- Articles by tag
- Prices & add to cart
- Search
- Cart
- Customer login
- Anything you can express in Liquid
Lock or just hide
Keep locked items out of sight, too.
- Hide locked products from collections, search, and grids
- Hide navigation links that point to locked content
- Keep locked pages out of sitemaps and search engines
- Hide prices and add-to-cart buttons, and show a "Log in to purchase" prompt instead
Locksmith works in the Online Store channel, with both new and legacy Shopify customer accounts.
Conditions
Build keys from 20+ conditions.
Put one condition in a key, or several that must all be true. Every condition can be inverted ("everyone except…"), and keys can be copied between locks. When the built-in conditions aren't enough, write your own in Liquid.
Customer accounts
Signed in, tagged with a value, email address on a list or from a domain, at least a number of orders, or has purchased a specific product.
Passcodes
One passcode, a list of passcodes, or thousands from an input list, with single-use codes and a different redirect per passcode.
Secret links
A private URL that opens the lock, or unique link codes from an input list for each recipient.
Location & visitor
Country, region, or city; IP address or range; store domain for Markets; or a confirmation prompt like "I'm over 21".
Date & time
Open before or after a moment, or on a weekly schedule. Plan a launch, an early-access window, or store hours.
Cart & email lists
A product or variant in the cart, a minimum cart value, or membership in a Klaviyo list or segment or a Mailchimp list.
See every condition in the Locksmith guide.
Use cases
What merchants build with Locksmith.
Password protection
Password protect a page, product, or collection
Shopify's password covers the whole store. Locksmith protects just the page, product, or collection you choose.
Hide prices
Hide prices until customers log in
Let everyone browse, but show prices and add-to-cart buttons only to customers who meet your conditions.
Wholesale
Run retail and wholesale from one store
Show case pricing and wholesale-only products to tagged buyers, hide prices from everyone else, and keep wholesale payment terms for wholesale accounts.
Members & staff
Build a members-only area
Approve registrations before customers can shop, gate content behind a subscription, or give your team a private store section.
Launches & VIP
Run private drops and early access
Share a passcode or secret link with your list, open a product at a set time, and keep bots and resellers out of checkout.
Regions
Show the right catalog in each region
Limit products to the countries you can sell them in, or vary content by Shopify Markets domain.
Beyond the lock
The details that make access control work.
Prompts that match your theme
Sign-in, registration, passcode, and email-signup prompts take on your theme's styling. Write your own messages and translate them for each language.
Checkout validation
Only let customers with the right tags buy products with matching tags, even through cart permalinks or bots.
Payment methods by tag
Show or hide payment methods based on customer tags. Offer Net 30 to wholesale accounts and no one else.
Input lists
Use a Google Sheet that stays in sync, or upload CSV, XLSX, TXT, or JSON. Lists can hold millions of emails or passcodes.
Hide parts of a page
Hide specific theme sections, blocks, or snippets, or use manual mode to lock only part of a page.
Shop app aware
Locked products are removed from the Shop app by default, so private items stay private there too.
Recently shipped
Locksmith keeps getting better.
Locksmith has been around since 2014, and it's still under active development. Here's some of what shipped this year.
October 2026
Products by tag
Lock every product with a given tag, alongside products and collections in the same lock.
September 2026
Theme-matched prompts
Locksmith's prompts and messages now take on your theme's fonts and colors.
August 2026
Built-in price hiding
Hide prices and add-to-cart buttons from lock settings, with a theme compatibility check.
June 2026
Multi-resource locks
One named lock can now cover many products, collections, or pages.
For developers & agencies
Code when you need it.
Write conditions and locks in Liquid, read a visitor's access state in your theme or headless storefront, and manage locks from your own systems with the Admin API.
{% comment %} A custom Liquid key condition:
open the lock for customers whose
metafield says they're approved {% endcomment %}
{% if customer.metafields.membership.status == "approved" %}Support
Real people, by email, usually within a day.
Locksmith is made by Lightward. Write to team@uselocksmith.com and a person on our team will help you set up the lock you have in mind. We aim to reply within 24 hours, and usually sooner.
What merchants mention in reviews
- It replaced custom theme code they'd otherwise have to maintain
- It runs a retail and wholesale business from one store
- It has kept working reliably for years
- Support is patient, fast, and human
Pricing
Pay what feels good.
We suggest a price based on your Shopify plan, roughly a third of what you pay Shopify. If it feels good, pay it. If it doesn't, tell us a number that does.
Basic
$12/mo
Suggested for Basic Shopify
Grow
$29/mo
Suggested for the Grow plan
Advanced
$99/mo
Suggested for Advanced Shopify
Plus
$199/mo
Suggested for Shopify Plus
Put the first lock on your store today.
Your price follows your Shopify plan, not the features you use. Every plan starts with a 15-day free trial.