Does the module enable PrestaShop's native maintenance mode?

No, and that is by design. The store stays technically online: the module intercepts unauthorized visitors and renders its own page. The back office, payment webhooks and scheduled tasks keep working normally.

How does the country-based soft launch work?

You list the allowed ISO country codes, for example FR,BE,CH,LU: those visitors browse the normal store, everyone else sees the waiting page. Detection relies on CDN geolocation headers (Cloudflare, CloudFront, Vercel) with a fallback to PrestaShop's GeoLite2 database when installed. The behavior for undetermined countries is configurable.

What about my SEO during maintenance?

By default the page returns an HTTP 503 status with a Retry-After header computed from your launch date, plus a noindex tag: Google understands the downtime is temporary and keeps your catalog indexed. For a long-lived coming soon page, an indexable 200 status is one click away.

Can I actually use the captured emails for the launch?

Yes: every signup records the language, country and date, with uniqueness per address and per store. The list is browsable in the back office with filters, bulk delete and one-click CSV export — ready to import into your emailing tool on launch day.

Does the page load any external resources?

No, it is 100% self-contained: inline CSS and JavaScript, embedded SVG icons, no third-party fonts or scripts. Not a single external request is made — a real GDPR plus, and a page that renders even in the middle of a deployment.

Maintenance Mode & Coming Soon Page Module PrestaShop 8/9

Q: How do my testers access the store during maintenance?

Three doors to choose from: the IP whitelist (exact addresses, CIDR ranges or wildcards), a secret token link that sets a signed cookie with a configurable lifetime, or an active back-office session. The token regeneration button instantly revokes every granted access.

Maintenance Mode & Coming Soon Page

Close the store to the public, not to your testers.

Designed maintenance & coming soon page: countdown, email capture, tester access by IP or token, and progressive country-by-country launch — the store stays technically online, so the back office and payment webhooks keep working.

At a glance

Elegant, 100% self-contained coming soon / maintenance page: inline CSS and JS, no external assets, GDPR-friendly
Countdown to the launch date, automatically hidden once it hits zero
Email capture with honeypot anti-spam, filterable back-office list and CSV export
Tester access: IP whitelist (CIDR, wildcards) and a token link revocable in one click
Country-based soft launch: open the store to selected countries while the rest of the world sees the waiting page

PrestaShop 8 & 9 Multistore SEO 503 + Retry-After GDPR-friendly

30-day refund

12 months updates

24h support

The long version

Everything you'd want to know before you install.

A detailed look at how Maintenance Mode & Coming Soon Page works, why we built it the way we did, and the thinking behind the features above.

§ 01

A waiting page that builds anticipation, not an error page

PrestaShop's native maintenance mode shows a bare message and shuts everything down. Maintenance Mode & Coming Soon Page replaces it with a real pre-launch page: logo, badge, title and message in your colors, animated glow accents and a countdown to launch day. The page is generated as a single self-contained HTML response — inline CSS and JavaScript, embedded SVG icons — so it renders instantly, even mid-deployment, and makes zero external requests.

§ 02

Your testers work, your visitors wait

The store stays technically online: the module only intercepts unauthorized visitors. You, your developers and your testers get in through three doors: the IP whitelist (exact addresses, CIDR ranges, wildcards), the secret token link that sets a signed cookie with a configurable lifetime, or simply an active back-office session. If a link ever leaks, one click regenerates the token and revokes every granted access.

§ 03

Launch country by country

Soft launch mode turns the waiting page into a progressive rollout tool: list the allowed countries (FR,BE,CH,LU for instance) and only those visitors see the real store. Detection relies first on CDN geolocation headers — Cloudflare, CloudFront, Vercel, nginx geoip — then on PrestaShop's GeoLite2 database when installed. You decide how visitors with an undetermined country are treated: caution or open doors.

§ 04

Build your list before opening day

Every visitor can leave their email address to be notified of the launch. The AJAX form embeds an anti-bot honeypot, enforces per-store uniqueness and records the language, country and date of every signup. In the back office, the list can be filtered, bulk-cleaned and exported to CSV: on launch day, your emailing campaign is ready to go.

§ 05

Flawless SEO and engineering

By default, the page returns an HTTP 503 status with a Retry-After header computed from your launch date and a noindex tag: search engines understand the downtime is temporary and keep your catalog indexed. An indexable 200 coming soon page remains one click away. On the engineering side: no overrides, a single hook, and a dedicated option lets payment webhooks through so an IPN is never blocked.

Maintenance Mode & Coming Soon Page

The short version.

Countdown and polished design

Built-in email capture

Tester access by IP and token

Country-by-country soft launch

Everything you'd want to know before you install.