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# Get started: set up Securify on your Shopify store

In about five minutes, Securify can start checking every visit to your store against the rules you choose: countries, IP addresses, VPNs and bots. This guide walks you through the setup inside Shopify, step by step.

## **Before you start**

* Securify runs on your Online Store through a **theme app embed**, so you need an Online Store theme.
* You need permission to install apps and edit themes in your Shopify admin.

## **Step 1: Install Securify**

1. Open [Securify on the Shopify App Store](https://apps.shopify.com/easy-block-customer-ip-country) and click **Install**.
2. Review the permissions and approve them.
3. Securify opens inside your Shopify admin. You can always find it again under **Apps → Securify**.

## **Step 2: Choose what to block**

The first screen asks **Which countries do you want to block?**

1. Search for the countries you don't sell to and add them. Country rules are unlimited on every plan.
2. Click **Finish setup (free)** to start on the Free plan, or click **Protect my store** to add more protection.
3. If you chose **Protect my store**, pick everything you want to stop on the **What are you trying to stop?** screen: bots, VPNs and proxies, fake ad traffic, scrapers, fake customers or risky orders. Securify shows the plan that covers your choices. Paid plans start with a free trial.

## **Step 3: Turn on the Securify app embed (required)**

Securify checks visitors through a theme app embed. **Until the embed is on, visitors are not checked and your rules are not enforced.**

1. In Securify, click **Open theme editor** in the **Turn on the Securify app embed** window, or click **Enable** next to the **App embed disabled** label at the top of any page.
2. In the theme editor, open **App embeds** in the left sidebar.
3. Switch on **Easy Block IP & Country**.
4. Click **Save**.
5. Go back to Securify. The label at the top of the page now reads **App embed enabled**.

**Tip:** the embed is saved per theme. If you publish a different theme later, switch the embed on in that theme too.

## **Step 4: Check that protection is working**

1. Open your store in a new browser window.
2. In Securify, open **Visitor Logs**. Within a minute your visit appears there with the decision Securify made for it.

## **Step 5: Fine-tune your rules**

Changes on the **Settings** page take effect when you click **Save** in the bar at the top of the page.

* **Block Countries:** add or remove countries at any time.
* **Block IPs:** block a single IP address, add trusted addresses to the **Allow List**, or import a list. Blocking whole IP ranges needs a paid plan.
* **Settings → Protection Settings:**
    * **Enable App Mode** is the main switch. Turn it off to pause all protection without uninstalling.
    * **Block VPN Users:** Pro plan and above.
    * **Block Bot Traffic** (datacenter traffic) and **Manage Good Bots** (keep search engines and other helpful bots): Advanced plan and above.
    * **Advanced Bot Blocking:** Growth plan.
* **Settings → Custom Block Message:** the message blocked visitors see. Pro plan and above.
* **Settings → Location Verification Appeal:** offer blocked shoppers a way to confirm their real location from the block page.
* **Settings → Notifications:** a daily email summary of what Securify blocked.
* **Content Protection:** turn off right-click, keyboard shortcuts, text selection and developer tools on your storefront. All plans.
* **Block Emails:** block risky customer email addresses, including at checkout. Growth plan. To block at checkout, also open Shopify **Settings → Checkout → Checkout rules** and set **Email Validation** to **Active**.

## **What your shoppers see**

* Visitors who match your rules see a block page instead of your store.
* Everyone else shops as usual.
* Securify is designed so that if it can't be reached, your store stays open to shoppers. Checks resume on their own when the connection is back.

## **Pause or uninstall**

* **Pause:** in Securify, go to **Settings**, turn off **Enable App Mode** and click **Save** in the bar at the top of the page. Your rules are kept. See [Temporarily disable Securify](https://help.securification.ai/en/article/temporarily-disable-securify-1bybqsq/).
* **Uninstall:** in your Shopify admin, go to **Settings → Apps**, open Securify and choose **Uninstall**. Shopify removes the app embed and Securify stops checking visitors. 48 hours later Shopify asks us to erase your store's data, and we erase it as described in our [Privacy Policy](https://securification.ai/privacy).

## **Need help?**

Chat with us from the bubble in the bottom-right corner of the Securify app, or email [dev@otp.plus](mailto:dev@otp.plus). Support hours, system status and every other way to reach us are on [Contact Securify support](https://help.securification.ai/en/article/contact-securify-support-pucwqa/).