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H6 Private Store for WooCommerce
v2.0.0 · by Jo Cox
Make your WooCommerce shop private. Let customers in by login or password, and choose who can see products, prices and buy.
About this plugin
H6 Private Store makes all or part of your WooCommerce shop private, then lets the right people in. It is built for shop owners, not developers: every setting is a plain question with a plain answer, and a short summary at the top tells you exactly what is private right now.
Everything is included. There is no paid version and nothing is locked.
Good for:
- Trade and wholesale shops
- B2B shops where customers log in to order
- Members-only shops
- Shops that are not open yet, or are invite-only
- Private product catalogues
Choose what is private
- Your whole website, just your shop, or only certain pages and products
- Pick which parts of the shop to protect: shop page, product pages, categories, tags, cart and checkout
- Keep chosen pages, posts or products public while everything else stays private
Let customers in
- Customers log in to their account, or enter a shared password
- Choose how long a password lasts, from one visit to 30 days
- Send visitors to your login page, or show them your own message and button
- Preview your shop exactly as a visitor sees it
Approved and trade customers
- Approve customers by account type (for example a “Trade customer” role), or one at a time
- Block individual customers, even if their account type is approved
- Give someone access until a date you choose, and it ends automatically
- Keep single products or whole categories for chosen customers
Prices and buying
- Show prices to everyone, to logged-in customers, or only to approved customers
- Make the same choice for who can add to basket and buy
- Write your own message to show in place of the price and the buy button
- Let everyone browse while keeping prices and ordering for approved customers
Search engines and privacy
- Ask search engines not to list your private pages (on by default for new installs)
- Optionally ask them not to visit private pages at all
- Stop other apps and websites reading your private products through your shop’s data feeds
Easy setup and checks
- Quick setup for trade shops, password-protected shops, coming-soon pages and selected products
- A plain-English summary of what is private right now
- Check any customer against any product: can they see it, see the price and buy it, and why
- A history of recent changes to your settings
Technical notes
- Search engine settings send
noindexheaders on private pages, and the strictest option also adds rules torobots.txt. - “Block other apps” blocks logged-out requests to the WooCommerce REST API and Store API product endpoints while your shop is private.
- The plugin declares compatibility with WooCommerce High-Performance Order Storage (HPOS). It does not read or write order data.
- Shared-password access uses a signed cookie; the password itself is stored as a hash.