The Restricted Store Access Premium Feature is for merchants who want to control which shoppers can access their online storefront. Restricted Store Access gives you three options for allowing access to your online store:
Unrestricted
Allows all visitors to browse your store anonymously and create a new customer account if they choose. (Unrestricted is the default behavior for all CPOnline stores. If this is the behavior you want your store to use, you do not need the Restricted Access Premium Feature.)
Require Account
Requires visitors to log in or create an account before they can browse your store.
Existing Customers Only
Only customers with existing accounts will be allowed to browse the store. This option allows you to restrict access to your storefront to only those customers that you upload from CounterPoint. New visitors to your online store will not be allowed to create an account or browse your store. (Only available in CounterPoint V7.)