Does Prime Lock report on locked-content analytics like LockPro?

Partly, and less well. Pro includes a blocked-checkout log, real-time blocked-attempt alerts and a weekly proof email, which tell you when enforcement fired. LockPro's analytics on locked content view the problem from the other end, showing how many visitors met a gate at all. If that view is what you need, they do it better today.

Will my customer tags carry over?

Yes. Both apps read Shopify's native customer tags, which live on the customer record and belong to your store, not to any app. Nothing is copied or migrated: the same wholesale tag that opened a gate before opens it after. Uninstalling either app leaves the tags exactly where they were.

What happens to my locked pages' SEO when I switch?

If you used LockPro to hide pages completely, those URLs were probably not indexed, and moving to price-only hiding can bring a catalog back into the index. If you were hiding prices only, nothing changes. Keep the URLs identical either way.

Prime Lock vs LockPro: Password Protect Lock

4.9
41 reviews
Productive Passengers
Launched 2024
Last verified 30 Jul 2026
App Store listing

LockPro is a well-built newer entrant with the Built for Shopify badge and an unusually complete feature set for its age, including analytics on locked content, which almost nobody else offers and which is genuinely useful. The constraint is the free plan: one lock. Past that it is $9.99 or $19.99 a month, and checkout validation is not in the published feature set at any tier.

9 of the 10 capabilities LockPro publishes are on the Prime Lock free plan

The remaining country / ip rules sit on our $9.99 Pro tier. Everything else, including checkout enforcement, is free and stays free for your store.

At a glance

The short version

Prime Lock and LockPro: Password Protect Lock compared on plan, pricing and headline capabilities
	Prime Lock	LockPro
Free plan	Yes	Yes
Entry price	$9.99/mo	$9.99/mo
Top price	$19.99/mo	$19.99/mo
Enforced at checkout	Available	Not listed
Registration + approval	Available	Not listed
SEO-safe hiding	Available	Not listed
Per-language text	Available	Available
No theme code left behind	Available	Not listed
Built for Shopify	No	Yes

availableProon a paid tierPlus onlyShopify Plus or top tierNot listednot published on the App Store page

Honest assessment

Where LockPro is a good fit

For a 2024 app, the breadth is impressive: variant-option locking, blog locking, country blocking, secret links, scheduled date windows and multi-language support. Several apps that have been around three times as long publish less.

The standout is analytics on locked content. Knowing how many people hit a gate and turned around is the only way to judge whether a lock is protecting your margin or quietly costing you sales, and almost nobody in this category surfaces it. It is the feature we most wish we had thought of first.

The Built for Shopify badge means it has cleared Shopify's performance and integration review, which is a meaningful signal about how the app is put together rather than a marketing claim.

The difference

Where Prime Lock is different

Prime Lock compiles each lock into a Shopify Function that runs inside Shopify's checkout on every plan, so a buyer without access cannot complete an order even from a cart permalink. Checkout validation is not in LockPro's published feature set at any tier, which leaves its gate at the storefront layer.

The free plans are the other real difference. LockPro's free plan is limited to one product lock or one entire-store lock, which is enough to try the app but not enough to run a catalog. Prime Lock's free plan is unlimited locks with enforcement included, and the grandfathering promise means what is free the day you install stays free for your store.

Registration and approval are also not in LockPro's published feature set. If you need applicants vetted before the catalog opens, that workflow lives in Prime Lock's free tier.

Feature by feature

All 20 capabilities

Recorded only where the app publishes them. An em dash means not listed on the App Store page as of the verification date, not that the feature does not exist.

Prime Lock and LockPro: Password Protect Lock compared across 20 capabilities
Capability	Prime Lock	LockPro
Enforced at checkoutCart and checkout validation, not just theme-side hiding	Available	Not listed
Hide price	Available	Available
Hide add to cart	Available	Not listed
Lock pages	Available	Available
Lock products / collections	Available	Available
Lock entire store	Available	Available
Passcode gate	Available	Available
Secret links	Available	Available
Customer tag access	Available	Available
Scheduled locksDate window that opens and closes on its own	Available	Available
Registration form	Available	Not listed
Approval queue	Available	Not listed
Auto-tagging on approval	Available	Not listed
EU VAT validationChecked live against VIES	Pro	Not listed
File upload on form	Pro	Not listed
Age verification gate	Pro	Not listed
Country / IP rules	Pro	Available
SEO-safe hidingPage stays indexable; only the price is withheld	Available	Not listed
Per-language storefront text	Available	Available
No theme code left behindSingle app embed, nothing written into Liquid	Available	Not listed

availableProon a paid tierPlus onlyShopify Plus or top tierNot listednot published on the App Store page

Migration

Switching from LockPro

Step 1
Note your existing rules
Write down every rule you have configured in LockPro: what it protects, who it lets in, and any schedule attached to it. This is the only step that takes real time, and doing it before you install anything makes the rest mechanical.
Step 2
Recreate them as locks
Build each rule in Prime Lock as a lock: pick the lock type, set Applies to, set Who can unlock, and add a schedule if the original had one. Your customer tags carry over unchanged, because both apps read Shopify's native customer tags rather than storing their own copy.
Step 3
Uninstall LockPro and check your theme
LockPro is Built for Shopify and uses the app-embed pattern, so uninstalling should be clean. Toggle its embed off in the theme customiser first, and confirm a locked page renders normally before removing the app. After uninstalling, view a locked product as a guest and as a tagged customer, and try a direct cart permalink to confirm the checkout Function rejects it.

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