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Shopify Store Protection Guides
Clear, no-code guides to stopping copycats, unwanted visitors and fraud, written for store owners.
15 step-by-step guidesNo code needed
Written for store owners
Protect your photos and text
Stop copycats saving your product photos and lifting your descriptions.
How to Disable Right-Click on Shopify
Shopify has no setting to turn off right-click. Here's how to switch it off across your store in about a minute, with no code, and protect phones at the same time.
Read the guideHow to Protect Shopify Product Images
Your product photos are among the most expensive things in your store to make, and the easiest to take. Here's how to protect them on desktop and phones, without code.
Read the guideWhat Content Protection Does for Your Shopify Store
What right-click and copy protection does for a Shopify store, how it works on desktop and phones, and how to set it up so it never gets in a customer's way.
Read the guideHow to Let Wholesale Customers Use Your Product Images on Shopify
Protecting your photos shouldn't stop your stockists and resellers using them. Here's how to protect your store from copiers while wholesale buyers, VIPs and your team copy freely.
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Choose who visits your store
Keep out the countries, networks and bots you don't want.
How to Block Countries on Shopify
Shopify can stop orders from a country, but not visitors. Here's how to block visitors and orders from any country, state or province, even through a VPN.
Read the guideHow to Hide Your Shopify Store from Certain Countries
Need your store hidden in some countries, for a regional launch, a distribution deal or a market you don't serve? Here's how to hide it from visitors there, while search engines and your own team still see everything.
Read the guideHow to Block VPNs on Shopify
Visitors on VPNs, Tor and cloud servers are behind a lot of fraud, scraping and country-block workarounds. Here's how to keep them off your Shopify store while real shoppers always get in.
Read the guideHow to Block IP Addresses on Shopify
IP addresses change every time someone switches network. Here's how to find the IP behind an order, and how to block the person behind it so they can't simply come back.
Read the guideHow to Stop Bots on Your Shopify Store
Bots scrape your products, test stolen cards and fill your checkouts with junk. Here's how to tell which bots you have and keep them out of your store, while Google and real shoppers always get in.
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Stop fraud at checkout
Block fake orders, known fraudsters and card testers before they cost you.
How to Stop Fake Orders on Shopify
Fake orders come from card testers, bots, fraudsters and pranksters, and each needs a different fix. Here's how to tell them apart, check a suspicious order, and stop them at checkout for good.
Read the guideHow to Block Customers on Shopify
Shopify has no block-customer button. Here's how to block a customer at checkout in one click, which details to block, and how to make sure you never block the wrong person.
Read the guideHow to Prevent Shopify Card Testing
Card testers use your checkout to check stolen cards, leaving you with failed payments, chargebacks and confused cardholders. Here's how to spot them and block them automatically.
Read the guideHow to Block Disposable Email Addresses on Shopify
Throwaway inboxes like Mailinator and 10 Minute Mail are behind a lot of fake orders, discount abuse and card testing. Here's how to block them at checkout in one click.
Read the guideHow to Block a Phone Number on Shopify
A phone number is one of the hardest details for a fraudster to change. Here's how to block one at checkout on Shopify, in any format, so they can't come back with a new email.
Read the guideHow to Block Email Domains on Shopify
When fraud keeps coming from the same email domain, blocking addresses one at a time can't keep up. Here's how to block a whole domain, and its subdomains, at checkout on Shopify.
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“The app is good and a good value for money. Customer service is responsive. Good solution to stop copying of imagery.”
Shipton Mill · United Kingdom
“I really love this app! The customer support is 100% AMAZING and highly recommend them. :) If you're considering getting this...don't hesitate. Worked immediately after installing. Thank you so much and I love this app!”
Glitter Lambs · United States
“Its a great app to disable right clicks on the website. The support team is also very helpful and quick to respond to questions.”
Moraltive · Switzerland
“Our website was copied by Chinese hackers, and Ongoing Defender has helped us secure our website”
Surf Station Store · United States
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