Maintenance mode with a scheduled storefront page

Pause the storefront without losing the workday

Maintenance mode gives a site a deliberate public state for launches, catalog changes, migrations, and planned infrastructure work. Enable the module, turn on the master switch, and public storefront routes show a themed maintenance page instead of a half-finished shopping experience.

The gate covers the catalog, product and collection pages, cart, checkout, and customer account routes. Dashboard users can continue working normally, and a validated builder preview can still inspect the rest of the storefront.

Make the message feel like your storefront

The settings page keeps the content practical and editable: a title, description, searchable Lucide icon, and a list of buttons. Button entries have their own label, destination, style, and delete action, so the page can point shoppers to a homepage, support page, social profile, or another safe resource.

Only internal paths and http or https URLs are accepted. Unsafe schemes such as javascript: and data: are rejected at the server boundary.

Schedule a controlled maintenance window

Use Until turned off for an immediate pause, or choose a scheduled window with inclusive start and end times. Stoify stores these values as UTC because sites do not currently have a timezone setting; the dashboard labels that boundary directly beside the controls.

The schedule applies only while the master module toggle is enabled. A future window leaves the storefront open until its start, and an ended window returns the site to its normal routes automatically.

Preview before you publish the pause

When the Maintenance Mode module is enabled, the storefront builder adds a dedicated Maintenance page surface. It uses the same theme as the live storefront and provides an inspector for the exact content saved in Settings. You can edit and review the page even while the master switch is off, then save with the same builder history and preview flow used by other surfaces.

Read the launch story in A safer pause button for storefront operations.