Vacation Hold

Since Shopify does not have a vacation hold like Amazon, Ebay, Poshmark… They used to allowed shop owners to change from a plan to Pause and Build. Now you can not change plans (or have vacation hold) until my yearly plan is up on November. Shopify suggested to put a password protector on our site so it will not show up on the internet. Are there any other suggestions that would allow us to be live online before we look for another platform?