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A Collection lock passcode-protects every product in a collection — including products you add to that collection after the lock is created. This is a paid plan feature.

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When to use a Collection lock

  • You have a whole collection (like a new seasonal line, or a wholesale-only catalog) that shouldn’t be purchasable until a specific date
  • You keep adding new products to a collection over time and don’t want to remember to lock each one individually
  • You need to lock more products than a single Product lock allows (20 max)

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Requirements

The collection you want to lock must already be published to your Online Store. Launch Day - Store locks checks this when you create the lock and will ask you to publish it first if it isn’t.

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Creating a Collection lock

Follow the steps in Creating Your First Lock and choose Collection(s) as the lock scope, then click Select collection to choose which one to lock.
If a product in the collection is already covered by another lock, both locks apply: the product stays locked until every lock covering it is released, and a customer can use the passcode from either one. Launch Day - Store locks tells you when you pick the collection if it detects an overlap. See Multiple Locks on the Same Content.

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Staying in sync automatically

Once a Collection lock is active, Launch Day - Store locks keeps it in sync with your collection automatically:
  • A product added to the collection later gets locked automatically, with no action needed from you
  • A product removed from the collection gets unlocked automatically (unless it’s still covered by a different lock)
You don’t need to re-save the lock for these to take effect — Launch Day - Store locks picks up collection membership changes on its own.

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How quickly changes are picked up

When you add or remove products from a locked collection, or change a product’s tags, Launch Day - Store locks picks the change up on its own, usually within about 15 to 30 seconds. While it is catching up, the lock shows a grey Updating… note on your Dashboard, and the Dashboard refreshes by itself when it’s done. Products that were already locked stay locked the whole time. If you edit many products at once, they’re checked together in batches, so a big edit session still finishes within a couple of minutes.

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If the collection is deleted

If you delete a collection that has an active lock, the lock stops protecting anything. Launch Day - Store locks marks the lock Broken – collection missing, unlocks its products (unless another lock still covers them), and emails you once to say what happened. To fix it, open the lock and choose a collection that exists, then save. Or remove the lock.

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If the collection is empty

You can lock a collection before you’ve added any products to it. The lock stays Locked and simply has nothing to protect yet. As soon as products are added (by hand, or because they match a tag rule), they’re protected. If a collection that had products loses all of them, the lock shows Broken – collection is empty, because it’s no longer protecting anything. You don’t need to do anything: when products are added again, the lock starts protecting them and the badge clears. If the collection stays empty for a day, Launch Day - Store locks emails you once to let you know.

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What customers see

Every product in the locked collection shows Launch Day - Store locks’ lock screen instead of the normal product page — unless you’ve turned on Hide Buy/Shop Buttons instead.