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Install the app

Install Launch Day - Store locks from the Shopify App Store. Shopify will ask you to approve the permissions Launch Day - Store locks needs, then open the app inside your Shopify admin.

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Activate the Lock Screen block

Launch Day - Store locks locks your storefront through a theme app extension — you turn this on once. This needs to be enabled before locks you create in Launch Day - Store locks will be enforced on your storefront.
Launch Day Dashboard showing the 'Locks aren't being enforced right now' warning, an Activate it button, and the status badge reading 'Needed'

The Dashboard warns that locks aren't being enforced and shows an Activate button.

  1. From Launch Day - Store locks’ Dashboard, click Activate on the extension status banner (or go to your theme editor directly: Online Store → Themes → Customize).
  2. In the theme editor, open App embeds in the left sidebar.
  3. Turn on Launch Day - Store locks: Lock Screen.
  4. Save.
Shopify theme editor with the App embeds panel open and the Lock Screen toggle for Launch Day - Store locks turned on, with the Save button highlighted

Turn on the Lock Screen toggle in App embeds, then click Save.

To confirm it worked, go back to Launch Day - Store locks’ Dashboard — the status badge next to your theme’s name should read “Launch Day - Store locks added to theme: Done”. If it still says “Needed”, the toggle in App embeds either didn’t save or isn’t on the theme you currently have published.
Launch Day Dashboard with a green badge reading 'Launch Day - Store locks added to theme: Done'

When the embed is active, the badge reads Done.

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Where the Lock Screen applies

The Lock Screen is an app embed, so it isn’t tied to one template or section. Once it’s on, it applies across your theme’s storefront pages — home, collections, products, pages and the rest. You don’t add it to individual templates. Checkout isn’t part of your theme, so it isn’t covered by the Lock Screen block. The embed also has a few text settings (heading, description, button label and passcode field placeholder). Open the Lock Screen entry in App embeds to change them — see Customizing the lock screen.

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Turn the Lock Screen off

You normally want it on. Turn it off only if you want to pause every lock at once, for example while you test your theme.
  1. Go to Online Store → Themes → Customize.
  2. Open App embeds in the left sidebar.
  3. Turn off Launch Day - Store locks: Lock Screen.
  4. Save.
While it’s off, visitors can reach every locked page without a passcode. Launch Day - Store locks shows a red warning on your Dashboard, and may email you once when it notices the embed is off (it checks every few hours). Your locks, passcodes and schedules aren’t deleted — locks that are still active are enforced again as soon as you turn the embed back on.
If you switch to a different theme later, you’ll need to activate the block again on the new theme — Shopify doesn’t carry over app embeds automatically. Launch Day - Store locks will email you and show a banner in the Dashboard if it ever detects the block has been turned off or left behind on a theme switch.
Once the Dashboard shows Done, you’re ready to create your first lock.