We've had many requests on how you can take your store offline. Here is one method you can use which will take your storefront page offline for anyone that is not logged in as a store admin.

1. Find this line at the top of your storefront page (store.php by default):
PHP Code:
<?php include 'squirrelcart/pre_storefront.php' ?>
2. Right after that line, add this:
PHP Code:
<?php
if (is_file('offline.php') && !security_level('Store Admin')) {
    include 'offline.php';
    die;
}
?>
3. Create a file named offline.php in the same location as your storefront page. Put any HTML you want in it to tell your customers you are temporarily offline.

The cart will show the contents of "offline.php" to all users that are not logged in as store admin. If you rename "offline.php" to something like "offline.old.php", the store should go back online.

As store admin, you can still test your storefront provided you are logged in. If you are not logged in, you can login using the control panel URL:
http://www.example.com/squirrelcart/