{"id":436,"date":"2018-07-31T07:17:40","date_gmt":"2018-07-31T07:17:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/docs\/shopping-cart-questions\/bigcommerce\/how-to-enable-maintenance-mode-in-bigcommerce\/"},"modified":"2021-05-10T07:01:17","modified_gmt":"2021-05-10T07:01:17","slug":"how-to-enable-maintenance-mode-in-bigcommerce","status":"publish","type":"docs","link":"https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/docs\/shopping-cart-questions\/bigcommerce\/how-to-enable-maintenance-mode-in-bigcommerce\/","title":{"rendered":"How to enable maintenance mode in BigCommerce?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here are the steps on How to enable maintenance mode in BigCommerce:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Go to\u00a0<strong>Store Setup \u203a Store Settings<\/strong>, then toggle the\u00a0<strong>Store Status<\/strong>\u00a0setting to\u00a0<strong>Down for Maintenance<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Enter a custom message to be displayed to your customers or leave the default message. Although there is no character limit on this field, the page on your storefront which displays it was not designed to handle more than ~2,000 characters.\u00a0The Message field also accepts HTML, allowing you or your designer more freedom when structuring your custom message.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5184\" src=\"https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Custom-message-in-BigCommerce-maintenance-mode.png\" alt=\"Custom message in BigCommerce maintenance mode\" width=\"546\" height=\"235\" srcset=\"https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Custom-message-in-BigCommerce-maintenance-mode.png 546w, https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Custom-message-in-BigCommerce-maintenance-mode-300x129.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 546px) 100vw, 546px\" \/><\/li>\n<li><strong>Save<\/strong>\u00a0your changes.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In case you have any other questions, please reach out to us via:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/litextension.zendesk.com\/hc\/en-us\/signin?return_to=https%3A%2F%2Flitextension.zendesk.com%2Fhc%2Fen-us%2Frequests\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ticket system<\/a> (highly recommended)<\/li>\n<li>Email us at <a href=\"mailto:contact@litextension.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">contact@litextension.com<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":25,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"doc_tag":[1235,1429,1069,1280],"class_list":["post-436","docs","type-docs","status-publish","hentry","doc_tag-bigcommerce","doc_tag-bogcommerce-migration","doc_tag-litextension","doc_tag-maintenance-mode"],"comment_count":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/docs"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=436"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5479,"href":"https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/436\/revisions\/5479"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/25"}],"next":[{"title":"How to get API path and token from BigCommerce?","link":"https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/docs\/shopping-cart-questions\/bigcommerce\/how-to-get-api-path-and-token-from-bigcommerce\/","href":"https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/992"}],"prev":[{"title":"Can Litextension create redirects to my new products and categories after migration to BigCommerce?","link":"https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/docs\/shopping-cart-questions\/bigcommerce\/create-redirects-after-migration-to-bigcommerce-litextension\/","href":"https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/4160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"doc_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_tag?post=436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}