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  • 💡Basics
    • A Locksmith Overview
    • Creating locks
    • Creating keys
    • Compatibility with other apps and Shopify features
    • Removing Locksmith
  • 🔆Tutorials
    • Approving customer registrations
    • Creating restricted wholesale products
    • Hiding product prices and/or the add to cart button
    • Selling digital content on Shopify
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      • Setting up multiple price tiers
      • Customizing messages
      • Customizing the customer login page
      • Customizing the registration form
      • Customizing the passcode form
      • Customizing Locksmith’s "Access denied content" messages, and redirecting customers
      • Customizing the email list signup form
      • Showing multiple prompts on the same page
      • Showing content only to specific Markets
      • Input lists
      • Protecting against bots
      • Earn recurring revenue on your exclusive content using ReCharge
      • Use Locksmith and PayWhirl together to grant access based on subscriptions
      • Liquid locking basics
      • Restricting checkout from the cart
      • Confirmation key condition
      • Restricting customers to a specific collection
      • Passcode-specific redirects
      • Grow your subscriber lists with Klaviyo
      • Use Klaviyo as an access control list
      • Use Mailchimp to collect customer emails
      • Hiding out-of-stock products
      • How to use a private browsing session
      • Granting access to variants by visitor input
      • Offering different variants by postal code
      • Locking products by tag
      • Locking multiple pages at once
      • Making a product accessible exclusively from the direct product link
      • Creating private team areas
      • Importing customers in bulk
      • Disabling Locksmith for certain theme files
      • Adding translations to your Locksmith messages
      • Redirecting using Locksmith
      • Locking variants
        • Limiting the scope of variant locks using the product tag key condition
        • Handling JavaScript DOM errors caused by variant locks
      • Locking the customer registration form
      • Locking the search results page in your store
      • How to clear cache for a single website
      • Disabling Locksmith for certain theme files
      • 🛠️Manual mode
      • Grant access for a limited time when using passcodes or secret links
      • Testing Locksmith on unpublished themes
      • Locking blog posts
      • How to access your browser's dev tools
      • Restricting the cart for mixed products and combinations of products
      • Locking products by vendor
      • How do I hide my Shopify store's header and footer
      • Hiding navigation links for locked resources
      • Hiding products from product-grids
      • Restricting a product so that it can only be purchased by new customers
      • Automatically managing the seo.hidden metafield using Locksmith
      • Locking the home page
      • Setting up checkout validation with Locksmith
      • How to hide theme sections, blocks, and snippets
  • 🔑Keys: Access methods in Locksmith
    • About key conditions
    • Customer account keys
    • Passcode keys
    • Secret link keys
    • Visitor location keys
    • More about keys...
      • Inverting conditions in Locksmith
      • Combining key conditions
      • "Has purchased..." key
      • Using the "Force open other locks" setting
      • Liquid key basics
      • Manual mode
      • Excluding content from locks
      • IP address keys
      • Newsletter keys
      • Limiting the scope of variant locks using the product tag key condition
  • 🌻FAQs
    • Why aren't my locks working?
    • FAQ: I see blank spaces in my collections and/or searches when locking
    • Can Locksmith hide content from my in-store search?
    • Locksmith is not working with my page builder app
    • What should I do if my site is loading slowly?
    • I'm the administrator of my site and I cannot access pages because of Locksmith locks.
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      • I'm having trouble using Locksmith with a site speed optimization app.
      • The app isn't loading. What do I do?
      • Can Locksmith protect shipping methods, billing methods, or coupon codes?
      • I switched themes, and Locksmith isn't working
      • Why isn't my passcode, secret link, newsletter, or location key working?
      • Can Locksmith lock Shopify's public JSON API for my online store?
      • Why are my customers seeing a reCAPTCHA when logging in?
      • My passcode or newsletter prompt is not updating on my store when I change it.
      • My featured collections on my home page only show one product.
      • My infinite scrolling doesn't show all of my products.
      • My customers have to enter their e-mail address into the Mailchimp key every time they visit.
      • How do I know which customers have used a certain key?
      • Why is Locksmith adding information to my orders?
      • Locksmith isn't installing correctly!
      • Locksmith is not uninstalling correctly!
      • How does Locksmith affect search engines and SEO?
      • How do I change where customers are redirected to after registration on Shopify
      • The thing I want to lock isn't showing up in the Locksmith search
      • I am getting an "already taken" error when trying to create a metafield definition for seo.hidden
      • How do I add a hero banner image to Locksmith's access messages
  • 📒Policies
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    • Privacy policy
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  • 🔦Developer Tools
    • Locksmith Admin API
    • Locksmith Storefront API
    • Locksmith variables
    • Unsupported functionality
    • Requests from Locksmith
  • More developer docs...
    • Using the Admin API with Locks
  • App Integrations
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  1. Keys: Access methods in Locksmith

Customer account keys

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Many of Locksmith's key conditions use the customer account system that comes by default with all Shopify stores to check for specific customer attributes before granting access. These are detailed below.

Note: Locksmith does not create a separate account system or customer database! In order to use customer accounts with Locksmith, you'll first need to .

When these key conditions are used, Locksmith will ask that a customer signs in first, whenever a customer tries to access the locked content in your store. Locksmith does so by automatically displaying the login template from your theme:

Some of the options available to you include checking if the customer...

  • is signed in This condition requires all customers to log in. Once they're logged in, they'll be granted access to the locked resource.

  • is tagged with… This condition first requires all visitors to log in with a customer account. Once the customer has logged into their account, they'll be granted access if their customer account has the tag you've chosen in Locksmith. (When inverted: unless the customer is tagged with..., or is not signed in)

  • is not tagged with… This condition grants access if the visitor is not signed in with a customer account, or if they are signed in with a customer account that does not have the specified tag.

  • has placed at least x orders This condition requires the visitor to be logged in with their customer account. If their lifetime order count is at least the number that you specify, they'll be granted access.

  • has purchased… This condition requires the visitor to be logged in with their customer account, prompting them to log in if they aren't already. If their last 50 orders contain a certain product (identified by SKU, title, or by product tag), they'll be granted access.

  • the customer's email contains… This condition requires the visitor to be logged in with their customer account. If their email address matches some text that you specify (say, "@mycompany.com"), they'll be granted access.

  • has one of many email addresses This condition requires the visitor to be logged in with their customer account. If their email address is on the list that you specify, they'll be granted access. Simply to set up, but not recommend if you have a large number of email addresses. See below for an alternate option.

Inverting key conditions

Don't forget that all key conditions can be inverted! Which just means that Locksmith will check for the opposite of the original condition. More info on that here:

Liquid key conditions

Most notably, this would allow you to use customer metafields in order to grant access. More complete information on custom liquid key conditions - including setup guide - here:

More information related to customer accounts

Here are a few more links to guides that you might find useful as you set up Locksmith to work with your customer account system:

As always, please feel free to reach out to us directly via email at team@uselocksmith.com if you have any questions!

has an email from an input list This condition requires the visitor to be logged in with their customer account. If their email address is on the list that you specify, they'll be granted access. This key condition is different than the above, in that it leverages , which lets you use a very large number of of email addresses. While not hard to set up, it does require a few more steps than the one-of-many-email-addresses key condition above.

If the list above does not include the exact customer attribute that you are wanting to check, you have the flexibility to use . This is done by using a "custom Liquid" key condition.

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Locksmith's input list feature
Inverting conditions in Locksmith
any Liquid attribute that Shopify makes available on the customer object
Liquid key basics
Approving customer registrations
Customizing the customer login page
Customizing the registration form
Customizing messages
make sure that customer accounts are activated in your store