The Lock Manager app allows you to give or restrict access to specific content—such as products, collections, pages, and URLs—based on customer or visitor criteria. You can also choose to redirect unauthorized visitors to a different page or URL, depending on your needs.
Before you start, please ask yourself these questions:
(i) Which product(s), collection(s), or content would you like to lock?
(ii) Who should have access to this locked content?
(iii) What page should unauthorized visitors be redirected to?
Based on your answers, you’ll be able to select the appropriate category for your lock.
Now, follow the steps below to create a lock for your customers:
Step 1: Open your Wholesale Lock Manager app, and validate the app is successfully installed on your theme.
Step 2: If yes, then go to the main dashboard of the app and click on the "Create lock" button.
Step 3: Give your lock a name. Make sure it is easily recognizable if you try to visit the lock for configuration in the future.
Step 4: Select "Applies to" to select who can or cannot access the content you will choose.
- The Logged in customers option lets you restrict or permit chosen content for logged-in customers.
- The Selected customer option lets you hide/display chosen content from selected customers.
- The Visitors with passcode option helps you protect chosen content with a passcode.
Step 5: Select "Access type" to give or deny access to the customers/visitors selected in Step 4.
- The Can Access option allows you to grant access to your selected content for the customers (as specified in the Applies To section) you chose in the previous step.
- The Cannot Access option enables you to restrict access to your selected content for the customers (as specified in the Applies To section) you selected earlier.
Step 6: Now, it's time to select the "Content" that you want to lock.
- The Specific products option lets you restrict/permit the product you select from the customer type (Applies to) you selected in Step 4.
- The Specific collections option lets you restrict/permit the collection you select from the customer type (Applies to) you selected in Step 4.
- The Entire storefront option lets you restrict/permit the entire storefront from the customer type (Applies to) you selected in Step 4.
- The Specific URL option lets you restrict/permit a specific URL of your store from the customer type (Applies to) you selected in Step 4.
- The Specific page option lets you restrict/permit a specific page of your store from the customer type (Applies to) you selected in Step 4.
Step 7: If you want to hide selected products/collections and their respective URLs and also want to hide products/collections from the storefront search results and/or from the SEO (Google Search). There are settings given in the dashboard (see the image below):
Lock product settings
- Hide lock listings from products: If enabled, the selected products will be hidden from collection pages.
- Hide all links to the selected products: If enabled, Links (product URLs) for the selected products will be hidden from your Navigation/Menus.
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Hide from search:
i. Hide selected products from storefront search results: When enabled, the selected products won’t appear in storefront search results.
ii. Hide selected products from SEO and storefront search: When enabled, the selected products will be hidden across your storefront and from search engines (including Google). Search engine updates may take time to reflect.
If you're NOT able to see these settings. Kindly reach out to us via themes@wholesalehelper.io or live chat from your dashboard. We may need to add some code to your current theme to make these settings work on your store.
Step 8: Choose the "Redirect" option to redirect your restricted visitors to a specific Login page or a Specific page on your store or a Specific URL of your store.
That's it! We hope you finished creating a lock. :)
Support and Assistance
For further assistance or help regarding creating locks, feel free to reach out to our dedicated support team:
Email us - themes@wholesalehelper.io
Chat with us - You can also initiate a support chat conversation through your WLM app.