The Storefront Settings allow you to create a private store where customer login is required to access the storefront.
To get started, navigate to Settings -> Storefront in the left side menu.
There are three options that you can choose from. If the store should not be publicly accessible, you would select the Login is required option. When the storefront is set to required login, any visitor that attempts to access any page of the storefront will be redirected to the customer login page if they are not already logged in to the store as a customer.
In the next article, we will cover managing the administrative users of a store.