An update breaks checkout
A plugin, theme or WooCommerce update changes the checkout page. The homepage still loads, so uptime monitors stay green.
WooCommerce checkout monitoring
Your site is up.
Is your checkout?
CartWatchman checks the path your customers take to pay (product, cart, checkout and payment) and alerts you the moment one of them breaks, even when your uptime monitor says everything is fine.
Free WordPress plugin, plus a 14-day Pro trial. No card needed.
Checkout journey
The problem
Uptime monitors only check that the homepage loads
The failures that cost a store money usually happen deeper in, and nothing tells you until a customer complains or sales drop.
Payment can't start
A gateway loses its settings or its script fails. Customers fill the cart, press Pay, and nothing happens.
Background jobs stop
WP-Cron or Action Scheduler stalls. Order emails, stock updates and webhooks quietly stop going out.
How it works
Three steps, no code
- Step 1
Install the plugin
Add the free WordPress plugin. It finds your checkout, gateways and forms and starts checking them.
- Step 2
Get told when something breaks
When a check fails, one incident opens with evidence and the likely cause, and you get an alert.
- Step 3
Fix it and move on
Roll back or fix the change. The incident resolves itself once the check passes again.
What it does for you
How CartWatchman helps you
Less time finding out what broke, and fewer lost sales while it is broken.
Know what an outage costs
Alerts estimate the revenue at risk per hour from your own order history, so you know how urgent it is.
See what changed
Each incident lists the plugin, theme or WooCommerce updates made just before it, so you know where to look first.
One alert per problem
An incident opens once and closes itself when the check passes again. No inbox full of repeats.
Alerts where you already work
Email, Slack or Microsoft Teams. Set a minimum severity so only the problems you care about reach you.
Your data stays on your site
No customer details, card data or passwords leave WordPress. The cloud only gets health summaries and incidents.
Every client store in one place
Agencies see all connected stores, their health and open incidents on one dashboard.
What it checks
Everything between “Add to cart” and “Order received”
Checks run on your own server, so they see what your store sees. With a cloud plan, CartWatchman also checks from the outside and in a real browser.
- Checkout and cartThe checkout page is assigned, loads, and accepts a test product in a temporary cart.
- Payment gatewaysEnabled gateways are visible at checkout and payment can initialise.
- Order flowLearns your normal order rhythm and alerts when orders stop for longer than usual.
- Gateway live modeWarns when a payment gateway is still in test or sandbox mode on your live store.
- OrdersWooCommerce can read orders, and no order is marked both paid and failed.
- Forms and emailContact forms submit and WordPress can hand mail to your mail server.
- Scheduled jobsWP-Cron and Action Scheduler are running and not falling behind.
- WooCommerce webhooksWebhooks to your other systems are active, not disabled or failing.
- Storefront errorsJavaScript errors on product, cart and checkout pages are recorded.
- UpdatesPlugin, theme and core updates are logged and linked to incidents.
Pricing
Start free. Add the cloud when you need it.
₹ INR$ USD · coming soon
Free
The WordPress plugin on its own.
₹0forever
- All on-site checks
- Email, Slack and Teams alerts
- 1 site
- 30 days of history
Pro
Cloud monitoring for one store.
₹4,990per year
or ₹499 a month
- Everything in Free
- Uptime checks from outside your server
- Real-browser checks of your storefront
- Payment health: gateways, webhooks, last paid order
- Cloud dashboard and alerts
- 1 site
- 365 days of history
Agency
For agencies looking after client stores.
₹14,990per year
or ₹1,499 a month
- Everything in Pro
- Up to 10 client sites
- All clients on one dashboard
- 730 days of history
Prices in Indian rupees; USD pricing for international stores is coming soon. Every new account gets Pro free for 14 days. AI diagnostics is coming to Pro and Agency.
FAQ
Common questions
Does CartWatchman place real orders or take payments?
Not unless you turn on test orders. By default, checks stop before payment and no order is created. With test orders on, one order every 6 hours goes through your checkout with a hidden test payment method that moves no money, and is deleted straight away.
Do I need a cloud account?
No. The WordPress plugin monitors your store on its own. Connect it to the cloud when you want outside checks, a dashboard and longer history.
What data is sent to the cloud?
Only after you connect: plugin and WordPress versions, health score, incident summaries, payment gateway names and status, webhook counts, and how long ago the last paid order was. No customer, order or card details.
Will I get 100 emails for one outage?
No. You get one alert when an incident opens and one when it resolves, filtered by severity and rate-limited.
Know your checkout works, every hour.
Install the free plugin in a few minutes. Connect the cloud whenever you are ready.
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