Can I run Prime Lock and Talon at once?

Not usefully. Both hide the price on the same product pages, and two apps manipulating the same element produce inconsistent results. Rebuild the rules in Prime Lock, check a product page as a guest and as a tagged customer, then uninstall.

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?

Talon publishes SEO-safe hiding and strips prices from page metadata, so your products should already be indexed without prices. Prime Lock keeps that behaviour: the page stays indexable, only the price is withheld, and you can additionally strip it from the Shopping feed.

Prime Lock vs Talon Login to View Price

4.8
27 reviews
Talon Commerce
Launched 2016
Last verified 30 Jul 2026
App Store listing

Talon Login to View Price does one job and does it carefully. Prices and add-to-cart hidden until login, scoped by product, collection or customer tag, with a no-code editor for the replacement message and included installation help, which matters more than it sounds on a heavily modified theme. The question is whether one flat $19/month plan is the right price for a deliberately narrow feature set.

Everything Talon Login to View Price publishes, Prime Lock ships on the free plan

All 5 of them, at $0, plus checkout enforcement that Talon Login to View Price does not publish. Compare that with their entry price of $19/mo.

At a glance

The short version

Prime Lock and Talon Login to View Price compared on plan, pricing and headline capabilities
	Prime Lock	Talon Login to View Price
Free plan	Yes	No
Entry price	$9.99/mo	$19/mo
Top price	$19.99/mo	$19/mo
Enforced at checkout	Available	Not listed
Registration + approval	Available	Not listed
SEO-safe hiding	Available	Available
Per-language text	Available	Not listed
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 Talon Login to View Price is a good fit

Narrow is not an insult. Talon hides prices and add-to-cart until login and does not pretend to be a platform, and for a merchant whose entire requirement is exactly that, a focused app with a small settings screen is easier to live with than a rule engine.

It strips prices from page metadata so search engines cannot read them, a step several larger and more expensive apps skip, and one that separates real price hiding from cosmetic price hiding. Credit where it is due.

Custom installation help being included in the price is a genuine differentiator. If your theme has been through three developers and a redesign, having someone else make the integration work is worth something real.

The difference

Where Prime Lock is different

Prime Lock's locks compile into a Shopify Function that validates the cart and the checkout server-side, so an unauthorised order is rejected at checkout regardless of route. Checkout validation is not in Talon's published feature set, so its hiding is a storefront layer.

On scope, Talon publishes hide price, hide add-to-cart, collection-level locking, tag-based access and SEO-safe hiding. Passcodes, scheduled date windows, secret links and a registration workflow are not in the published feature set. Prime Lock covers those on the free plan.

The pricing comparison is the blunt one: $19/month flat with no free tier, against $0 for unlimited locks with enforcement included. If the included installation help is what you are buying, that is a fair trade. Otherwise it is a hard number to defend.

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 Talon Login to View Price compared across 20 capabilities
Capability	Prime Lock	Talon Login to View Price
Enforced at checkoutCart and checkout validation, not just theme-side hiding	Available	Not listed
Hide price	Available	Available
Hide add to cart	Available	Available
Lock pages	Available	Not listed
Lock products / collections	Available	Available
Lock entire store	Available	Not listed
Passcode gate	Available	Not listed
Secret links	Available	Not listed
Customer tag access	Available	Available
Scheduled locksDate window that opens and closes on its own	Available	Not listed
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	Not listed
SEO-safe hidingPage stays indexable; only the price is withheld	Available	Available
Per-language storefront text	Available	Not listed
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 Talon Login to View Price

Step 1
Note your existing rules
Write down every rule you have configured in Talon Login to View Price: 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 Talon Login to View Price and check your theme
Talon offers custom installation, so your theme may contain integration code added by their team. Ask them what was changed before uninstalling, and confirm those edits are reverted. 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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