Wix Stores: Creating Restricted Store Pages
Use the Wix Members Area to take control over who can access your store pages. This can be useful when selling wholesale or B2B.
Choose whether you want to reserve access to password holders or to site members. You have the flexibility to decide how you want to restrict who can become a member of your site.
In this article, learn how to:
Restricting all access to your store
You can restrict access to your main store page if you don't sell to the general public.
To restrict access to your main store page:
- Go to the Pages panel in your Editor:
- Wix Editor: Click Pages and Menu
on the left side of the Editor. - Editor X: Click Pages
at the top of Editor X.
- Wix Editor: Click Pages and Menu
- Click the More Actions
icon on the main shop page. - Click Settings
. - Click the Permissions tab.
- Select a permission level:
- Password Holders: Only visitors with the password can access the page.
- Enter the password.
- Members Only:
- Select Members only.
- Select which of your members can access the page:
- All members: Any site member can access the page.
- Only selected members or paying customers:
- Select from your Member Roles: Click the Edit icon
to select a member role. Learn more about roles and permissions - Allow membership plan holders access: Select a pricing plan you created or click Create a Plan to add the Pricing Plans app and create your first membership plan or package. Learn more about Pricing Plans
- Select from your Member Roles: Click the Edit icon
- Password Holders: Only visitors with the password can access the page.
Restricting access to specific store pages
If you sell both retail and wholesale, you can create regular store pages for your retail customers and then duplicate and edit your products for sale on your wholesale page.
To create retail and wholesale store pages:
- Duplicate each of the products that you want to sell wholesale.
- Edit the wholesale products:
- Set the price of each wholesale product.
- Mention how many products are sold at the wholesale price, either in the product name or description or use product options to sell at set quantities.
Note: Your inventory does not update automatically according to this number.
- Create a new category for the wholesale products. Learn how
- Assign the wholesale products to the new category. Learn how
- Add a new store page.
- Select the category to be displayed on the new page. Learn how
- Change the privacy settings of the page according to your preferences:
- Go to the Pages panel in your Editor:
- Wix Editor: Click Pages and Menu on the left side of the Editor.
- Editor X: Click Pages at the top of Editor X.
- Wix Editor: Click Pages and Menu
- Click the More Actions
icon on the shop page you want to restrict. - Click Settings
. - Click the Permissions tab.
- Go to the Pages panel in your Editor:
- Select a permission level:
- Password Holders: Only visitors with the password can access the page.
- Enter the password.
- Members Only:
- Select Members only.
- Select which of your members can access the page:
- All members: Any site member can access the page.
- Only selected members or paying customers:
- Select from your Member Roles: Click the Edit icon
to select a member role. Learn more about roles and permissions - Allow membership plan holders access: Select a pricing plan you created or click Create a Plan to add the Pricing Plans app and create your first membership plan or package. Learn more about Pricing Plans
- Select from your Member Roles: Click the Edit icon
- Password Holders: Only visitors with the password can access the page.
- Hide the new wholesale page from search engines. Learn how
- Stop each of your wholesale products from being indexed. Learn how
Note: This prevents the product from appearing in search engine result and also in site searches if you added a search box to your site.
Limiting access to members you approve
You can restrict access to visitors you approve manually. When visitors sign in to your site, they receive a message explaining that their member login request is awaiting approval. You receive an email and a notification in your dashboard prompting you to accept or decline the request.
To limit membership to approved members:
- Go to Signup, Login, and Security in the Settings section of your site's dashboard.
- Select whether you want everyone to be able to sign up or only people you manually approve under Who can be a site member?.
- Click Save.
What's next?
After you receive a site member request, go to your Site Members tab to approve or block the member request.
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