Hi
With our wordpress sites, you can close the store front via maintenance plugin - but admin can still see full storefront. Good for making changes to a live site without customer seeing work in progress,
How can I do this with CS Cart?
Please check
https://docs.cs-cart.com/4.7.x/user_guide/look_and_feel/changing_attributes/store_closed.html
Default behavior. You should setup a "Store Access Key" in Settings/General page so you can see the store front (assuming open_this is set as the key)
yourexampleurl.com?store_access_key=open_this