Title: Checkvane for WooCommerce
Author: Ordolyn
Published: <strong>August 1, 2026</strong>
Last modified: August 1, 2026

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# Checkvane for WooCommerce

 By [Ordolyn](https://profiles.wordpress.org/xkmet/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/checkvane.0.1.0.zip)

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 *  [Installation](https://wordpress.org/plugins/checkvane/#installation)
 * [Development](https://wordpress.org/plugins/checkvane/#developers)

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## Description

Payment gateways fail silently more often than store owners realize — a webhook 
signing-secret mismatch after a plugin update, an expired API key, a plugin conflict
that quietly breaks the “Place Order” button. The checkout page looks fine. WooCommerce
shows nothing wrong. Customers just leave, and the store owner finds out days later,
if at all.

Checkvane watches for the real, specific causes of this and emails you when one 
happens:

 * **Webhook signing-secret mismatches** — orders stuck as “Pending” while your 
   gateway silently retries and gives up.
 * **Expired or revoked gateway API keys** — generic “Payment failed” with no visible
   cause, only found in WooCommerce’s own logs.
 * **Broken checkout JavaScript** — a plugin/theme update silently breaking the 
   Place Order button, detected from real customer sessions (not simulated).
 * **SSL/certificate issues** — an expiring certificate, or checkout accidentally
   served without HTTPS, both of which can hide the card-entry field.
 * **Orders stuck in Pending/On-hold** past a sensible threshold, excluding manual
   payment methods (bank transfer, cheque, COD) that are expected to sit there.
 * **Unusual drops in completed-order volume**, using multi-baseline comparison (
   same hour last week, four weeks ago, and a rolling average) rather than a single
   flat threshold — this only activates after a 3-week learning period so a new 
   store’s normal noise doesn’t cause false alarms.

**What this plugin deliberately does not do**: it never submits test payments through
your checkout, never toggles your gateway into test mode, and never modifies orders
or payment settings. Everything is passive, in-process monitoring of your store’s
own order data and logs — nothing synthetic, nothing that could itself put a live
store at risk.

## Installation

 1. Install and activate like any WordPress plugin.
 2. Go to WooCommerce > Checkvane to set an alert email (defaults to your site admin
    email) and review thresholds.
 3. That’s it — no API keys, no external service to configure.

## FAQ

### Does this slow down my checkout?

No. All monitoring runs on scheduled background checks (WP-Cron) or passively observes
existing WooCommerce hooks/logs — nothing runs synchronously in the checkout request
path except a small error listener script, which only reports errors and never blocks
page load.

### Will this ever submit a test payment or change my gateway settings?

No. This is intentional — automatically toggling a live store’s gateway into test
mode is the kind of automated production-config change that can fail open and itself
block real customer payments, which is exactly the problem this plugin exists to
prevent.

### Why did I get an alert about “stuck” orders when I use bank transfer?

Bank transfer, cheque, and Cash on Delivery orders are excluded by default since
they’re expected to sit in Pending/On-hold until manually confirmed. If you see 
a false positive for another manual method, it can be excluded via the `chkv_manual_payment_methods`
filter.

## Reviews

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## Contributors & Developers

“Checkvane for WooCommerce” is open source software. The following people have contributed
to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ Ordolyn ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/xkmet/)

[Translate “Checkvane for WooCommerce” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/checkvane)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/checkvane/), check 
out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/checkvane/), or subscribe
to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/checkvane/) by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/checkvane/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

#### 0.1.0

 * Initial scaffold: order-status/stuck-order monitoring, WC_Logger scanning for
   webhook/API-key failures, checkout JS error detection, SSL/certificate monitoring,
   baseline-gated volume alerting.

## Meta

 *  Version **0.1.0**
 *  Last updated **18 hours ago**
 *  Active installations **Fewer than 10**
 *  WordPress version ** 6.2 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **7.0.2**
 *  PHP version ** 7.4 or higher **
 * Tags
 * [alerts](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/alerts/)[checkout](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/checkout/)
   [monitoring](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/monitoring/)[payments](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/payments/)
   [woocommerce](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/woocommerce/)
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## Contributors

 *   [ Ordolyn ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/xkmet/)

## Support

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