Know the secondyour checkoutbreaks.
Checkout Monitor runs signed WooCommerce Store API checkouts against your live storefront — cart, add-item, pay, order confirmed. The moment the flow breaks, we tell you on email and Slack. Long before a drop in sales or an angry customer does.
| Store | Last check | Uptime | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Store One | just now | 98.4% | DOWN |
| Store Two | 1 min ago | 99.98% | UP |
| Store Three | 1 min ago | 99.91% | UP |
| Store Four | 2 min ago | 100% | UP |
Your checkout can breakwithout a single warning.
A plugin update, an expired payment key, a theme conflict — checkout fails quietly while the rest of the store looks perfectly fine. Every hour it stays broken is revenue walking out the door.
A theme change, a plugin update, a new tax rule. Everything looked fine on your laptop.
No console error on your machine. Every real customer hits a wall at pay — while everything else looks perfect.
Or a support ticket. Or a chargeback. Hours later. The invisible customers don't email you at all — they just leave.
Set it up once.
Watched every minute.
Install the companion plugin, add your store, walk away. From there we drive a real signed checkout on your cadence and only bother you when it matters.
Install the WordPress companion plugin. It ships a hidden test product, a bot-only test payment gateway, and generates a one-time shared secret. Two minutes, no developer.
Every check hits your WooCommerce Store API for real: open cart, add the hidden test item, pay via the test gateway, confirm the order posted. Same API path a customer takes — never charges a card, never touches real inventory.
One failure could be a network blip. Two in a row is signal — that's when the incident opens and email + Slack fire, with the exact failing step and a plain-language cause.
Built to catch what
other monitors miss.
Uptime pings tell you the homepage loads. They say nothing about whether a customer can actually pay. We test the one flow that makes you money — every step of it.
Full-funnel checkout tests
Open cart, add the hidden test product, submit checkout with the bot-only test gateway, confirm the order posted. The whole signed API path — not a ping.
Alerts on real failures
Email on every tier, Slack on Pro, SMS on Agency. Two consecutive fails opens the incident and dispatches — one flake never wakes you at 3am.
Every store on one board
Agencies see all client stores in a single view — status, last run, and the failing step, sorted by what needs attention now.
Plain-language failures
Not "add-item HTTP 404" on the first line. "We couldn't add the product — often a www ↔ apex redirect on your store URL." Raw error one click away.
Two-strike suppression
A single failure is a data point, not a page. Alerts only fire after two consecutive fails, so you hear the real ones and ignore the flake-storms.
Safe by design
Test orders suppressed from your admin, customer emails, and analytics by the companion plugin. Secrets AES-encrypted at rest; every request HMAC-signed and nonce-protected.
One flow. Three kinds
of people who rely on it.
You can't watch checkout at 2am. This does — and wakes you only if something's actually wrong, with the exact step that failed already in the email.
- —Peace of mind without babysitting
- —Catch losses before customers do
Managing many client stores? See every one on a single board — status, last check, failing step — with per-store alert routing so the right person hears about the right store.
- —Every client in one dashboard
- —Per-store thresholds and channels
Route alerts into the incident channel your team already watches. Pair with your deploy pipeline and catch bad releases before support does.
- —Slack channels per environment
- —Two-strike suppression stops noise
Real free tier.
Fair paid tiers.
Every plan runs the exact same signed checkout test. Paid tiers get more stores, tighter cadence, and more history. See full comparison.
Real product, not a trial. Commercial use permitted.
- ✓Full-funnel checkout test
- ✓Email alerts
- ✓7 days of run history
- ✓No credit card
For serious operators running one to a few stores.
- ✓Everything in Free
- ✓Email + Slack alerts
- ✓90 days of run history
- ✓Per-store thresholds
For teams monitoring many stores at scale.
- ✓Everything in Pro
- ✓Email + Slack + SMS
- ✓1 year of run history
- ✓Priority support
Will test checkouts charge real money?
No. The companion plugin installs a bot-only test payment gateway (cm_test_gateway) that never touches Stripe, PayPal, or any of your real gateways. It's only visible to the verified bot — your customers can't see it or use it.
The test orders that get created are also suppressed from the WooCommerce order list, customer + admin emails, and analytics. Real orders untouched, real inventory untouched.
Do I need a developer to set it up?
No. Install the WordPress companion plugin, copy the generated secret into the Checkout Monitor dashboard, add your store URL. Two minutes.
How fast will I be alerted?
Cadence is per-tier: 30 minutes on Free, 3 minutes on Pro, 1 minute on Agency. Two consecutive failures opens the incident and dispatches. So the alert lands within roughly two check intervals of the actual break.
Channels: email on every tier; email + Slack on Pro; email + Slack + SMS on Agency.
Does it work with my payment provider?
Yes, because we don't touch your payment provider. Our test path uses the bot-only gateway installed by the companion plugin. Whatever gateways your real customers use — Stripe, PayPal, Square, WooPayments, regional acquirers — sit alongside untouched.
Can I monitor more than one store?
Yes — that's what Pro (up to 5) and Agency (unlimited) are for. Every store lives on the same dashboard with independent alert routing.
Watch your checkout
like it's your job.
Because it is ours. Connect your store in two minutes and never discover a broken checkout from an angry customer again.