ledelire Posted August 6, 2013 Share Posted August 6, 2013 Hey all, Well I am kind of intrigued by a situation here: I have my shop enabled only for my country (for now), Spain, People from elsewhere can access the store but cannot buy. I have only registered customers able to buy too. Visitors / guests cannot. Thing is, I see in my shopping carts section, a repeated and constant VISITOR / GUEST cart of the same exact items order & amount over many days, and I am asking myself if bots etc... Do make fake orders to test the site? Thanks and cheers y'all! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vekia Posted August 6, 2013 Share Posted August 6, 2013 well, technically they can. But it is almost impossible due to the: it's necessary to create an account login in fill the address form with correct field select the carrier (if bot fill address form with incorrect fields it will not see carriers) select payment method confirm the order adding to cart is a simple operation, so they are able to add stuff to cart... but whole order... it is to difficult;) 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ledelire Posted August 6, 2013 Author Share Posted August 6, 2013 As usual, thanks Vekia. Always there for us man! Mmmm... I don't know what to think about this "mysterious" guest repeated orders then... :S What do you think about opening store to guests... I am a bit paranoied on being hacked, frauded etc... That's why I only grant shopping to registered users... Cheers Vekia! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vekia Posted August 6, 2013 Share Posted August 6, 2013 there is no possibility to any "hack" when your store will have option to "guest orders" enabled. You don't have to worry. btw. You said that you've got ORDER from bots? Or they just adding stuff to the cart? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ledelire Posted August 6, 2013 Author Share Posted August 6, 2013 Well Vekia, thes laqst days is just add to cart, sorry for the confusion. But one strange thing happened to me some weeks ago, before these add to cart, and it looks like the same order: I hade 4 messages (4 tries I guess) from paypal that an error ocurred with a paypal order attempt. I checked up my store and saw that a guest / visitor had tried to make that order, which should be impossible as I got that disabled like I said!!!! So I wanted to find more about that as it is very strange and tried to contact paypal several times but, of course, never got an answer / follow-up on my inquiry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ledelire Posted August 6, 2013 Author Share Posted August 6, 2013 The only thing I could do is try to guess who was the guest by checking visitors origin + ip around the time those "phantom" purchase attempts had been made, and found out 2 "suspects" one from China, the other from Beverly hills... Which is, again, impossible as for customers outside Spain, shopping is disabled! Very strange... Anyway if it was a legitimate purchase attempt (but it's impossible!) I lost a chance of a 600 euro approx. sale! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FME_Modules Posted August 19, 2013 Share Posted August 19, 2013 Bots does not place orders to test your website. The bots will read your content and trace the bounce rate of the users and will rnak you accordingly this is it nothing about creating an account and placing an order. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ledelire Posted August 19, 2013 Author Share Posted August 19, 2013 Thanks for the info... I might have lost some good sales then Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FME_Modules Posted September 4, 2013 Share Posted September 4, 2013 Thanks for the info... I might have lost some good sales then As long as you are receiving sales it does matter its google bot, or man's bot. What matters is Money Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ledelire Posted September 4, 2013 Author Share Posted September 4, 2013 Money matters... That is my concern... Several carts being filled up by "mysterious" guests that never checkout Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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