Deactivate the shop immediately

[Sculley]

We are still building the site and we published the site to test an order (and paid for a plan). We want to deactivate the site immediately so that no one can purchase anything, however, we changed the plan to pause and build and it's saying that the store is active for 6 more days. We need to deactivate it NOW. We don't want orders. How do we do that? 

[Sculley]

Thanks for your reply. The account doesn't have "Plan and permissions". Only "plan" and 'Store Status' isn't an option. But the below suggestions to restrict access to visitors with a password worked.

[bryan76]

Online Store > Preferences and click Restrict access to visitors with the password

[Sculley]

Thank you! This was the solution. 

[Promer-Alena]

If you need to prevent any purchases immediately, the quickest way is to turn on password protection for your store. Go to Online Store > Preferences, scroll to Password protection, enable it, and set a password—this will block public access

For extra security, you can also disable checkout by going to Settings > Payments and deactivating your payment providers