{"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":"2026-08-27T08:33:35","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T08:33:35","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":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To enable maintenance mode in BigCommerce:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Log in to your <strong>BigCommerce control panel<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Go to <strong>Channels ><\/strong> <strong>Channel Manager<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Under <strong>Storefronts<\/strong>, click the <strong>three-dot icon (\u22ef)<\/strong> next to the storefront you want to deactivate.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Select <strong>Make inactive<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"472\" src=\"https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/make-inactive-bigcommerce-1024x472.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7787\" srcset=\"https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/make-inactive-bigcommerce-1024x472.png 1024w, https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/make-inactive-bigcommerce-300x138.png 300w, https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/make-inactive-bigcommerce-768x354.png 768w, https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/make-inactive-bigcommerce-1536x708.png 1536w, https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/make-inactive-bigcommerce.png 1887w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Enter the message you want customers to see while your store is unavailable.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Click <strong>Deactivate<\/strong> to confirm.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"847\" height=\"503\" src=\"https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/image-11.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7786\" srcset=\"https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/image-11.png 847w, https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/image-11-300x178.png 300w, https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/image-11-768x456.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 847px) 100vw, 847px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Your BigCommerce admin will remain accessible, so we can continue migrating your data while customers see the maintenance message. After the migration and data review are complete, return to <strong>Channel Manager<\/strong> and select <strong>Make active<\/strong> to reopen your storefront.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In case you have any other questions, please email us at\u00a0<strong>litextension@support.litextension.com<\/strong>.<\/p>\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":7788,"href":"https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/436\/revisions\/7788"}],"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}]}}