CashFlowCanary Checkout Monitor

CashFlowCanary runs continuous WooCommerce checkout monitoring for stores and agencies that cannot afford silent checkout, cart or payment failures. The plugin connects your store to CashFlowCanary, exposes protected internal health signals, supports the paid-plan AI intervention workflow, and shows live monitor status directly in WordPress admin.

Use it to detect issues that generic uptime checks miss:

• Payment gateways enabled in WooCommerce but unavailable at checkout
• Checkout Blocks or shortcode pages that render incorrectly
• Empty cart, checkout and order-flow anomalies
• Synthetic test orders that need safe cleanup
• Incidents that need shareable evidence for developers, hosts or clients
• Paid-plan AI interventions that need aggregate WooCommerce context before recheck

What the plugin does

Enriched health endpoint
Exposes a private REST endpoint (/wp-json/cashflowcanary/v1/health) secured by a shared token. CashFlowCanary polls this endpoint to get data only available from inside WordPress:

• Real payment gateway availability (is_available() — not just “enabled”)
• Whether checkout uses the WooCommerce Blocks checkout or the classic shortcode
• Live product in-stock count
• Orders placed in the last 24 hours and pending order count
• Recent synthetic test orders and their statuses

AI intervention context for paid plans
When a paid CashFlowCanary plan detects an incident, the service can run a guarded non-interactive workflow: incident report, AI intervention, checkout recheck and intervention report. The plugin contributes aggregate WooCommerce context only. Free plans do not include AI intervention.

Automatic synthetic order cleanup
Orders placed by CashFlowCanary’s test engine are automatically tagged and deleted (or cancelled) after a configurable delay. Your WooCommerce stats stay clean.

Live admin dashboard
See monitor status and global health score directly in WP Admin → CashFlowCanary. A colour-coded dot in the admin bar alerts you to open incidents at a glance — without leaving WordPress.

Local demo mode
Enable the local demo mode from WP Admin → CashFlowCanary to preview the cockpit without a CashFlowCanary account. Demo mode uses local sample statuses only and does not send data to CashFlowCanary.

Native WooCommerce webhook
The plugin registers a WooCommerce native webhook that streams order events to CashFlowCanary, enabling faster incident detection on order-flow anomalies.

Who it is for

• WooCommerce store owners who want to know whether the checkout can really take orders
• WooCommerce agencies monitoring several client stores
• Support teams that need checkout incident evidence before changing cache, payment or theme settings
• Developers who want aggregate WooCommerce health signals without exposing customer personal data

Requirements

• A CashFlowCanary account for live monitoring
• WooCommerce 7.0 or later
• WordPress 6.0 or later, PHP 8.0 or later

You can install the plugin and enable local demo mode without a CashFlowCanary account. Live monitoring starts after connecting a CashFlowCanary account. CashFlowCanary billing is handled in the CashFlowCanary web app, not inside WordPress or WooCommerce.

Service externe

This plugin connects your store to CashFlowCanary, a third-party SaaS monitoring service operated at cashflowcanary.com. A CashFlowCanary account is required to use the live monitoring, alerting and incident-proof features.

The plugin does not contact CashFlowCanary until an administrator enters a CashFlowCanary API token and saves the connection settings in WP Admin -> CashFlowCanary.

Once connected, the plugin sends store metadata to the CashFlowCanary API (https://cashflowcanary.com) — site URL, WooCommerce version, aggregate product and order counts, payment-gateway availability and the status of CashFlowCanary synthetic test orders — so CashFlowCanary can monitor your checkout and generate shareable incident evidence. No customer personal data (names, emails, order details) is transmitted.

On paid plans, the same aggregate metadata can be used by CashFlowCanary’s AI intervention workflow to diagnose, attempt safe non-payment remediation, recheck the checkout and generate an intervention report. This feature is not available on free plans.

The plugin does not process subscription payments and does not add a payment terminal to WooCommerce. CashFlowCanary subscription billing, when needed, happens in the CashFlowCanary web app after the store owner has connected and evaluated the service.

• Terms of Service: https://cashflowcanary.com/cgv.html?source=wporg_plugin
• Privacy Policy: https://cashflowcanary.com/politique-confidentialite.html?source=wporg_plugin
• Plugin documentation and resources: https://cashflowcanary.com/ressources.html?source=wporg_plugin&intent=plugin_docs
• Example incident report: https://cashflowcanary.com/ressources/exemple-rapport-incident?source=wporg_plugin

Privacy

This plugin sends store metadata (site URL, WooCommerce version, order counts) to the CashFlowCanary API at cashflowcanary.com for monitoring purposes only after explicit administrator configuration. No customer personal data is transmitted. See CashFlowCanary Privacy Policy.

1. In your WordPress admin, go to Plugins → Add New → Upload Plugin.
2. Upload the cashflowcanary-for-woocommerce.zip file and click Install Now.
3. Activate the plugin.
4. Go to WP Admin → CashFlowCanary and enable local demo mode to preview the cockpit without sending data.
5. Create or connect a CashFlowCanary account when you are ready for live monitoring.
6. Enter your CashFlowCanary API token, then click Register this site and provide your WooCommerce REST API Consumer Key and Secret.

That’s it — CashFlowCanary will begin monitoring your checkout within minutes.

Creating WooCommerce Consumer Keys

Go to WooCommerce → Settings → Advanced → REST API → Add Key.
Set permissions to Read/Write and copy the Consumer Key and Consumer Secret.

1. 

   Connection screen with CashFlowCanary API settings, guided onboarding and WooCommerce REST key fields.

2. 

   Local demo mode showing sample checkout statuses without connecting to CashFlowCanary.

3. 

   Token-protected WooCommerce health endpoint with aggregate, no-PII store signals.

4. 

   WooCommerce webhook setup flow with credential masking and rollback on registration failure.

1.0.2

• Documented the paid-plan AI intervention workflow and clarified that free plans do not include AI remediation or intervention reports.
• Clarified that AI intervention uses aggregate WooCommerce context only and does not send customer personal data.

1.0.1

• Validated compatibility with WooCommerce 10.8.1.
• Documented paid-plan AI intervention workflow context.

1.0.0

• Initial release.
• Enriched health REST endpoint.
• Automatic synthetic order detection and cleanup.
• Live monitor dashboard in WP Admin.
• Local demo mode for no-account cockpit preview.
• Admin bar status indicator.
• Native WooCommerce webhook auto-registration.