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WooCommerce monitor for the plugin-update day that silently broke the gateway.

WooCommerce stores live and die by the payment gateway plugin. The plugin updates, the gateway silently breaks for a part of your catalog, the morning ad push sends buyers to a partial-charge page. SiteGuardian watches the URLs a shopper types, on a minute cadence, before the partial-charge queue starts.

  • Watches your WooCommerce storefront, /cart, /checkout, and wp-admin as separate URLs.
  • Tight slow threshold on /checkout. 1.5 seconds is sane for most stores.
  • Probes every minute on Pro. Fast enough to catch the day a payment gateway plugin update breaks the gateway.
  • SSL expiry alerts on every plan. A renewing cert is the most common silent breakage.
  • No WordPress plugin, no wp-config edit, no DNS edit.
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How it works

Setup, in three beats.

  1. Step 01

    Add the URL a paying shopper types first

    Paste your storefront root, /cart, /checkout, and the wp-admin login. Set a tight slow threshold on /checkout (1.5 seconds is sane) and a slightly looser one on /cart. SiteGuardian starts probing inside the next minute.

  2. Step 02

    Let the alerts catch the plugin-update day

    Most WooCommerce slowdowns come from a payment gateway plugin update, a PHP-version bump, or a heavier theme. The minute cadence catches the day the change happens, before the gateway-died ticket reaches your support inbox.

  3. Step 03

    Catch the gateway failure before the partial-charge queue starts

    A /checkout that returns 500 on the day of a Black-Friday push loses the spend. SiteGuardian probes every minute on Pro, so the email reaches your inbox the second the page stops — before the refunds roll in the next morning.

What the alert actually says

One email. One URL. One timestamp.

Your URL https://yourstore.com/checkout/ answered with HTTP 502 at 11:47 UTC. The probe will retry in 60 seconds.
WooCommerce monitor alert · SiteGuardian default

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Starter is $19 a month — one site, ten URLs, every-five-minute checks. Pro is $39 a month — three sites, fifty URLs, every-minute checks. Lifetime is $299 paid once and stays yours with every future update included.

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