ShopMonitor.io – Automated Checkout & Form Monitoring

Description

ShopMonitor.io monitors your websites from the outside – simulating real customer behaviour to catch issues before your customers do. This plugin connects your WordPress site to the ShopMonitor.io service and shows the connection status, detected integrations, and monitoring links directly in your WordPress admin.

Key Features

  • Connection Status: See at a glance whether your site is connected to ShopMonitor.io — right from the WordPress admin and dashboard widget
  • WooCommerce Checkout Monitoring: Automated end-to-end tests for add-to-cart flows and the full checkout process, including both classic and block-based checkouts
  • Contact Form Testing: Automatically test form submissions and verify that emails are delivered — supports Contact Form 7, WPForms, Gravity Forms, Fluent Forms, Ninja Forms, Formidable Forms, Forminator, and WS Form
  • Login Flow Monitoring: Automated checks for your WordPress login area
  • Form tests: track whether confirmation emails were successfully sent during ShopMonitor test runs and report the result via the monitoring API
  • Form Integration Detection: The plugin detects which form plugins are active and shows their names so ShopMonitor knows what to test
  • Direct Links: Quick links to the ShopMonitor.io web app to view monitoring runs, history, and results
  • Spam & Captcha Bypass: Automatically bypasses spam protection and captcha checks (e.g. Cloudflare Turnstile, hCaptcha, CleanTalk, reCAPTCHA) during ShopMonitor test runs, so automated tests are not blocked

Benefits

  • Catch Issues Early: Know about broken checkouts, failed form submissions, or login problems before your customers do
  • Peace of Mind: Continuous automated monitoring means you always know your shop is working
  • No Manual Testing: Stop clicking through your own checkout to verify it works — ShopMonitor does it for you
  • Easy Setup: No API key required in WordPress — just install, activate, and connect via the ShopMonitor.io web app

How It Works

  1. Install and activate the plugin
  2. Log in to ShopMonitor.io and add your website
  3. The plugin shows Connected status in your WordPress admin once the connection is established
  4. ShopMonitor.io runs automated test flows at your configured intervals
  5. View all monitoring runs, results, and alerts in the ShopMonitor.io web app

Supported Integrations

Form Plugins: Contact Form 7, WPForms, Gravity Forms, Fluent Forms, Ninja Forms, Formidable Forms, Forminator, WS Form

Spam & Security Plugins: CleanTalk, Solid Security, All-In-One WP Security, Wordfence, Defender Pro, Simple Cloudflare Turnstile, hCaptcha

WooCommerce Captcha Plugins: Enhanced Turnstile for WooCommerce, Koala reCAPTCHA for WooCommerce, reCAPTCHA for WooCommerce by i13

Privacy Policy

This plugin displays connection and integration information in wp-admin. It does not transmit your WooCommerce catalog or customer data to ShopMonitor.io.

During automated monitoring runs, ShopMonitor.io connects to your site from the outside and simulates customer actions (e.g. adding a product to cart or submitting a form). No personal customer data is collected or stored by the plugin as part of this process.

External services

This plugin connects to the ShopMonitor.io service to display connection status and to enable automated monitoring of your website.

What data is sent and when:
* The plugin may request the ShopMonitor.io public key from the configured API URL to verify inbound requests from the monitoring service
* During automated test runs initiated by ShopMonitor.io, the service connects to your site and interacts with your store or forms as a real visitor would — no customer data from your store is sent outbound

Service provider information:
* Service: ShopMonitor.io
* Website: https://www.shopmonitor.io
* Default API domain: https://api.shopmonitor.io
* Web app: https://app.shopmonitor.io
* Purpose: Automated outside-in monitoring of WooCommerce checkout flows, contact forms, and login areas
* Privacy Policy: https://www.winning-solutions.de/datenschutzerklaerung

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Installation

  1. Upload the plugin folder to wp-content/plugins/shopmonitorio or install the ZIP file in the WordPress Plugins screen.
  2. Activate the plugin.
  3. Log in to ShopMonitor.io and add your website to start monitoring.

FAQ

Do I need an API key in WordPress?

No. You manage everything through your normal ShopMonitor.io account login. The plugin shows local connection and integration information only — no API key is required in WordPress itself.

What does ShopMonitor.io actually test?

ShopMonitor.io simulates real customer behaviour on your site — it can test your WooCommerce add-to-cart and checkout flow, contact form submissions and your WordPress login area. All tests run from outside your server, just like a real visitor.

Does the plugin work without WooCommerce?

Yes. The connection status display, dashboard widget, and form testing features work without WooCommerce. WooCommerce-specific checkout monitoring requires WooCommerce to be active.

Will automated test runs interfere with my real orders or form submissions?

No. ShopMonitor test runs are clearly tagged internally and are automatically cleaned up after each test. Test orders created during monitoring are removed and never appear in your real order history.

Does the plugin send any of my shop or customer data to ShopMonitor.io?

No. The plugin does not transmit your WooCommerce orders, customer records, cart contents, or product catalog to ShopMonitor.io. The admin screens read integration information locally within WordPress.

What happens if a test detects a problem?

You will be alerted via the ShopMonitor.io web app. You can configure notification preferences (email, etc.) in your ShopMonitor.io account settings.

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Contributors & Developers

“ShopMonitor.io – Automated Checkout & Form Monitoring” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

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Changelog

1.1.1

  • Form tests: track whether confirmation emails were successfully sent during ShopMonitor test runs
  • Spam/captcha: added bypass support for Simple Cloudflare Turnstile, hCaptcha, and Perfmatters; exclude ShopMonitor test gateway from Turnstile payment-method checks
  • WPForms: disable third-party provider integrations and limit notification emails during test runs to avoid side effects

1.1.0

  • Form tests: server-side submission tracking for ShopMonitor test runs — ShopMonitor can now confirm that a form was successfully processed on the server side before completing a test run

1.0.9

  • Removed account API key requirement; admin now shows connected status and form integration names only

1.0.8

  • WooCommerce: added support for ShopMonitor test payment gateway (classic and block checkout), test product management, test order cleanup, and store capability detection

1.0.0

  • Initial release