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Block Credit Card Checkers and bad User Agents form your WOO checkout.<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

Checkout Origin Guard<\/strong> helps you view, log, and block Bad BOTS and Bad User Agents from your checkout and carts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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No more failed WOO transactions due to CC Bots.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Bad User-Agents<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Blocks Bad User-Agents using Python, Java, wget, etc.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Verifies<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Verifies key details before Blocking or Allowing.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Logs<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Keeps a log of the blocked and failed transactions.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n

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\n UPDATED: Checkout Origin Guard 1.7<\/a>\n <\/h1>\n <\/header>
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Smarter Checkout Defense for Modern Fraud Patterns\n\n\n\nCheckout fraud has changed a lot in the last year. What used to be a handful of suspicious patterns\u2014throwaway emails, obvious bot signatures, or burst-traffic card-checker…<\/p>\n <\/div><\/div>

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\n Introducing Checkout Origin Guard<\/a>\n <\/h1>\n <\/header>
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Now in the WordPress Repository\n\n\n\nIn the never-ending arms race between eCommerce store owners and fraudulent actors, I am excited to announce a major milestone: Checkout Origin Guard for Woocommerce has been accepted…<\/p>\n <\/div><\/div>

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\n Checkout Origin Guard: new name, repository submission, and more<\/a>\n <\/h1>\n <\/header>
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I\u2019m excited to share three things today: a new name, an update on the WordPress Plugin Repository submission, and a roundup of recent improvements.\n\n\n\nWhy the name change: WC Origin Guard \u2192 Checkout…<\/p>\n <\/div><\/div>

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\n Getting Stated with Checkout Origin Guard<\/a>\n <\/h1>\n <\/header>
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Protecting Your WooCommerce Store\n\n\n\nFailed orders, fake transactions, and bot-driven checkouts are more than just an annoyance, they waste your time, skew your analytics, and in some cases cost you money in refunds…<\/p>\n <\/div><\/div>

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Are your Woo ORDERS pages clogged up with FAILED and other possible FRAUD transaction? Hundreds of weird transaction appear overnight for really low-value products? Checkout Origin Guard is just what the doctor…<\/p>\n <\/div><\/div>

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\u201cFailed transactions in WOO are a headache but, the ones that went through and needed a refund were even worse. That’s why I developed Checkout Origin Guard<\/strong>, to block these credit card checking bots before they could make it to checkout\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Get Checkout Origin Guard<\/strong> for peace of mind.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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No Hassle No more failed WOO transactions due to CC Bots. Bad User-Agents Blocks Bad User-Agents using Python, Java, wget, etc. Verifies Verifies key details before Blocking or Allowing. Logs Keeps a log of the blocked and failed transactions. \u201cFailed transactions in WOO are a headache but, the ones that went through and needed a … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-11","page","type-page","status-publish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wcog.michaelwinchester.com\/wcog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wcog.michaelwinchester.com\/wcog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wcog.michaelwinchester.com\/wcog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wcog.michaelwinchester.com\/wcog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wcog.michaelwinchester.com\/wcog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/wcog.michaelwinchester.com\/wcog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":115,"href":"https:\/\/wcog.michaelwinchester.com\/wcog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11\/revisions\/115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wcog.michaelwinchester.com\/wcog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}