If you run limited drops, presales, wholesale catalogues, or professional-only products, you already know the drill: you password-protect the product so only the right people can buy it. Locket has always made that part easy \u2014 lock any product, collection, vendor, or tag, and the buy button disappears until the customer enters the code.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But here’s the uncomfortable truth about every<\/em> tool that just hides a button: the button is only hidden in the browser. A determined bot, a stock-alert service, or anyone who’s been forwarded a checkout link doesn’t click your buttons at all. They go straight to the cart and the checkout \u2014 and sail right past the lock.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We saw this happen to real merchants. One store running hyped trading-card pre-orders watched locked products get scooped up by bots the moment they went live, no password required. The lock looked<\/em> right. It just wasn’t being enforced where it mattered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Checkout Lock closes the gap.<\/strong> Instead of only hiding the buy button, it enforces your password at the checkout itself \u2014 on Shopify’s own servers, not in the shopper’s browser. If a locked product reaches the checkout without a valid code, the order is stopped. No bypass. No exceptions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The button is a courtesy. The checkout is the lock.<\/strong> Bots can skip the first. They can’t skip the second.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n Your customers won’t notice anything new \u2014 they enter the password and buy, just like today. The difference is entirely on the side of the people who shouldn’t<\/em> be getting through.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Checkout Lock earns its place the moment a locked product is something people actively want to get around. That’s more businesses than you’d think:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Enforcing rules at Shopify’s checkout has traditionally been a Shopify Plus<\/strong> privilege \u2014 the kind of thing on a $2,300\/month plan. Checkout Lock works on any Shopify plan<\/strong>, including Basic and Grow. No Plus. No developer. No theme surgery. You install Locket, flip one switch, and it’s on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Checkout Lock is a Locket Pro<\/strong> feature, and it’s opt-in \u2014 it only ever applies to stores that switch it on, so nothing changes for anyone else. To enable it:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Client-side hiding stays exactly as it was \u2014 Checkout Lock is a second, deeper layer underneath it. Together they cover both the shopper who sees your store and the bot that never does.<\/p>\n\n\n\n If your locked products are worth protecting, they’re worth protecting properly. Checkout Lock takes the password you already trust and makes it something bots, scripts, and leaked links simply cannot get around.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ready to switch it on?<\/strong> Open Locket \u2192 Settings \u2192 Checkout Lock, or learn more about Locket here<\/a>. Not using Locket yet? Find it on the Shopify App Store<\/a> and lock your first product in a couple of minutes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hiding the buy button was never the whole job If you run limited drops, presales, wholesale catalogues, or professional-only products, you already know the drill: you password-protect the product so only the right people can buy it. Locket has always made that part easy \u2014 lock any product, collection, vendor, or tag, and the buy […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-locket"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beauii.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beauii.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beauii.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beauii.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beauii.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/beauii.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19,"href":"https:\/\/beauii.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions\/19"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beauii.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beauii.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beauii.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beauii.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Introducing Checkout Lock<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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How it works, in plain English<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Who needs this<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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The part everyone assumes is impossible<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Turning it on<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Lock it like you mean it<\/h2>\n\n\n\n