Commerce
Loman Maintenance Mode
Close the store politely while you work, and open it again in one click.
- Status
- Active
- Pricing
- Free – $1.99/mo
- Model
- Freemium
- Segment
- Shopify merchants
Every store eventually needs to be taken down for an hour — a theme change, a bulk price import, a migration, a supplier problem. The options until now were to leave shoppers browsing a half-broken storefront, or to switch on Shopify’s own password page, which says nothing and explains less.
Loman Maintenance Mode is the third option: a page you control, up in one click and down in one click.
What it does
- Says why, and for how long. Two templates — a plain notice, or a live countdown to the moment you’re back — edited with live preview and your own logo and colours.
- Keeps your team working. A staff password lets you, your developer, and your support staff use the live store while shoppers still see the page. This is the feature the category forgets.
- Keeps chosen pages open. A URL allowlist leaves specific paths reachable throughout — a support page, a status page, anything that shouldn’t go dark with the rest.
- Handles running over. Every competitor’s countdown freezes at zero. This one swaps to a message you wrote in advance, which is the state a maintenance window actually ends in.
- Costs nothing to keep installed. The free tier is the whole app. The paid tier removes a small “Powered by” line and changes nothing else.
Why we built it
Not for the revenue — a maintenance page is a $1–4 category and we said so before building it. We built it as the first clone off the shared codebase behind Coming Soon, to find out what a second app in that architecture actually costs.
The answer was days rather than weeks, and it surfaced three latent bugs in the shared code that one app had been hiding. That was worth more than the subscription revenue, and it is why the third app will be cheaper still.
The product discipline is the interesting part. The obvious move was to give it Coming Soon’s feature ladder — email capture, analytics, A/B testing — and charge accordingly. We took all of it out instead. Nobody builds an audience on a maintenance page or A/B tests a page they hope no one sees, and shipping those would have made this a worse version of an app we already own. What is left is one job, done properly, at a price that matches it.