Checkout Shield for WooCommerce – Stop Fake Orders, Spam Bots & Card Testing vs Lemon Squeezy

Checkout Shield blocks the scripted checkout submissions that CAPTCHA never sees. Card testing bots don’t fill out your checkout form. They hit your store’s checkout API directly, completely skipping any reCAPTCHA or hCaptcha you’ve set up. That’s why CAPTCHA alone doesn’t stop them. Your site signs a proof into the checkout page it serves. A submission that carries that proof loaded the page; one that doesn’t, didn’t. Submissions with no valid proof are stopped before WooCommerce processes the order. What this stops, and what it does not Being straight about this is more useful than a bigger promise. It stops anything that posts to your checkout without loading the checkout page first: curl scripts, direct Store API calls, replayed form posts, and the card testing runs that work this way. This is the large majority of automated checkout abuse, and it is the part CAPTCHA misses. It does not stop a bot that drives a real browser. Something that genuinely loads your checkout page receives a genuine proof, because that is exactly what the proof records. Once loaded, that proof stays valid for the life of the shopping session, so a script can reuse it. No proof of this kind can tell the second submission from the first, since the thing being proven is identical. For that tier you want a bot mitigation service in front of the site (Cloudflare Bot Fight Mode, Sucuri) alongside this plugin. What this plugin can do is show you when it is happening: the dashboard reports payments that failed repeatedly from a single checkout visit, which is what working through stolen card numbers looks like. In Pro it can also act on it. Once a visit crosses a failure limit you set, the source IP is banned for a while so it can’t just start a fresh visit and keep going, and the ban lifts itself, so a bad guess never becomes a permanent lock-out. A determined attacker can still rotate IPs, which is why the service in front of the site stays the front line, but for the common case this turns the pattern off at the source. Why Store Owners Choose This Plugin Catches what CAPTCHA misses: blocks bots hitting your checkout API directly, without asking shoppers to prove anything Works with any caching: LiteSpeed, Cloudflare, WP Rocket and W3TC, with no conflicts Nothing to configure: no rules to write and no thresholds to tune Never blocks your customers by mistake: it only starts once it has seen a real checkout on your store work, and if your theme ever stops carrying the proof it detects that, keeps letting real shoppers through, and tells you what to fix No external services: everything runs on your server, no subscriptions Adds milliseconds: the check is local, with no third-party call to wait on Features (Free) Automatic bot blocking: no rules to configure; it arms itself once it has seen one checkout on your store work 4 protection levels: Learning, Permissive, Balanced and Strict, so you choose how aggressive you want to be One place for everything: a dedicated Checkout Shield screen with a live “what’s protected right now” overview, plus your settings and logs Dashboard overview: see blocked vs verified orders at a glance with a 7-day chart Order status tracking: know which orders were flagged, passed, or blocked IP whitelist: let trusted addresses through, supports CIDR notation API key authentication: for headless and custom checkout setups Works with all checkout types: classic, block-based, and all payment gateways HPOS compatible: works with High-Performance Order Storage WooCommerce logging: full integration with WooCommerce Status logs Pro Features Pro is about two things: stopping more, and letting you see it happen. Live attack timeline: watch scripted attempts get stopped as they arrive, with the surface, reason, masked email, and IP for each one Test your protection: one button fires the real card-testing request at your own store and shows you it hit a wall, so you never have to wonder whether it’s working Auto-ban repeat offenders: when one visit keeps failing payment past a limit you set, its IP is blocked for a while and then released on its own, so it can’t just start over Registration protection: the same no-CAPTCHA proof on your sign-up forms, plus throwaway-email blocking and per-IP rate limiting, to stop the fake accounts that come before fraud Throwaway email blocking: reject checkouts using a known disposable inbox, with a domain list the plugin keeps up to date for you 3-level logging control: turn logging off, log blocked attempts only, or log everything Recent blocks feed: the last 50 blocked attempts with email, payment method, and reason Automatic CDN/proxy detection: identifies real visitor IPs behind Cloudflare, Sucuri, or Akamai Stronger permissive mode: tighter bot detection with referrer and user-agent checks Checkout details in logs: see which email and payment method bots tried to use Customer blocklist: block repeat offenders by email, name, address, phone, IP, or postal code, all managed from the Checkout Shield screen One-click order blocking: block a customer directly from any order screen Learn more about Pro features

Sell digital products on WordPress If you want to sell digital products on WordPress today, it’s going to take a lot of tools, time, and effort to get something off the ground. Even if you have a simple product, it will often require bloated plugins to launch a store and start making sales. That is, until now. Lemon Squeezy is our fresh take on digital commerce. Lemon Squeezy is focused on helping creators sell their digital products — everything from digital downloads (eBooks, PDFs, design assets, photos, audio, and videos), subscriptions, and software licenses — without the hassle. The ability to manage your products, customers, taxes and VAT, discounts, email lists, and more is all perfectly packaged into every Lemon Squeezy store. Our all-in-one, no-code platform is everything you need to start making money with your digital products. It’s blazing fast, super secure, and beautifully-designed with you in mind. Relax, we got you covered We’re also the merchant of record, which means we take responsibility and liability for payment methods, complicated tax laws, fraud prevention, subscription billing, invoicing, secure file delivery, and virtually every other complicated aspect of running an online store. We make it easy-peasy so you don’t have to think about any of it. The icing on the cake? Lemon Squeezy supports 95 different currencies and offers payouts for over 280+ countries. When launching Iconic, Lemon Squeezy literally took care of everything. No need to think about taxes, VAT, license keys, etc. The setup really was easy-peasy. – James McDonald / iconic.app Powerful checkout pages, anywhere you want them No e-commerce software on your WordPress site? No problem. Each Lemon Squeezy store comes with a blazing-fast, secure checkout page for each of your products. You can either send customers directly to your hosted checkout page, or you can bring the beautiful Lemon Squeezy checkout experience to your website with our Checkout Overlay feature. With Checkout Overlay, your customers can make purchases directly on your WordPress website, without installing any bloated e-commerce software. Sell your software the easy way Selling software and apps is a piece of cake with Lemon Squeezy. With our powerful software licensing and subscription features, you can control access to your software and charge customers a regular fee to continue accessing your product. Why use Lemon Squeezy over WooCommerce or Easy Digital Downloads? Glad you asked! Although these are powerful plugins, they both can be cumbersome to use, leaving WordPress creators to manage plugin updates, security, payments, taxes, customer accounts, extensions, and GDPR laws. On top of that, it can be difficult to manage customers, products, and orders via the often-crowded WordPress admin. We created Lemon Squeezy specifically so you don’t have to think about any of those headaches. Using the Lemon Squeezy app, you can launch your store, create & market products, manage customers & subscribers, and more – all within a beautifully-designed interface tailor made for digital products. When you’re ready to sell on your WordPress site, you simply install the Lemon Squeezy WordPress plugin and add your products to any post, page, or content area to start generating sales. Easy-peasy! Auto Updates for your WordPress Themes and Plugins with Lemon Squeezy Having the ability to release updates to your WordPress digital products is essential. This gives your customers the ability to get the latest features and bug fixes. When distributing your premium WordPress products, this is critical. Currently, this is very difficult to do, and few services are available to help you do it. With Lemon Squeezy, these auto-updates are taken care of for you. The Lemon Squeezy team has worked hard to bring this advanced feature to our platform and it makes the entire process a breeze. With Lemon Squeezy, you’ll be able to sell your WordPress products, ship updates to paying customers and grow a thriving WordPress business. Check out our WordPress Plugin documentation for more detailed information. Ready to get started? Let’s get you set up on Lemon Squeezy so you can start selling your products! Head over to Lemon Squeezy and pick a pricing plan. Our simple and affordable pricing plans are priced for first-time creators and up-and-coming WordPress businesses. Set up your store details and create your first products. We’ll walk you through the whole process during onboarding. Add the Lemon Squeezy WordPress plugin to any of your WordPress websites and start adding products and making sales! Testimonials I made my first $99/yr sale within the first hour of setup! Finally, an all-in-one solution for makers with multiple products, with the ability to sell with both subscription and one-off pricing. Incredible. Rob Hope / onepagelove.com Lemon Squeezy is exactly what I have been looking for. The license key management and recurring payments have streamlined my business, and I am looking forward to seeing the platform grow. UiPress / uipress.co Lemon Squeezy is the best option for selling digital products. I experienced the way things work, and wow, are you kidding me! Lemon squeezy is gonna change the industry! Eren T / @ertuken Imagine having a team of designers, developers, email marketers, and tax accountants behind you. That’s how Lemon Squeezy feels, letting you focus on creating your digital products. Shahadat Rahman / @HiShahadat Lemon Squeezy has surpassed my expectations, and I’ve made the decision to move all my chips in on this platform for the long haul. The product is beautifully designed and a joy to use. Michael Riddering / figma.academy I’ve never come across a platform that has made it SO easy-peasy to start selling. Lemon Squeezy is full of beautiful surprises, and it’s a genuine joy to use! Rachel Shillcock / @MissRachilli It’s refreshing to see Lemon Squeezy focusing solely on digital products. Giving you all the necessary tools you’ll need to start selling your products and subscriptions quickly and easily. Ian Barnard / @ian_barnard It’s so good to have a system focused on digital products, and it took me no time at all to allow customers to buy fonts straight from my website. There’s so much potential. I can’t wait to see what’s next! TypeHeist / typeheist.co Lemon Squeezy had the perfect combination of features for selling my first software product. It’s been so easy to set up, and customer support has been amazing. Ross Wintle / turbo-admin.com Lemon Squeezy made setting up a store and selling digital products super easy and fun. No more clunky plugins to manage or taxes to worry about. Lemon Squeezy does everything I need and more. Mike McAlister / liftoffcourse.com