- Sessions
- Add to cart
- Reached checkout
- Payment attempts
- Orders
Checkout Truth tool
Shopify Checkout and Payment Path Test
Use this smoke test when Shopify shows sessions, add to cart, reached checkout, or abandoned checkout activity but completed orders are missing. Collect the facts before changing ads, theme layout, or pricing.
Minimum evidence
Free tool -> reviewed snapshot -> focused audit.
This page starts as a free evidence tool. Use it to gather the rows, screenshots, URLs, and dates needed for a reviewed 1-page Truth Snapshot, then move into a focused audit only when the evidence points to a cross-system repair.
- Store URL
- Target country
- Device
- Currency
- Payment methods
- Shipping zone
- Tax display
- Duties
- Discounts
- Trust and policy links
- Test order screenshots
- Abandoned checkout rows
- GA4 events
- Session replay
- Bot signals
Checkout evidence tool
Estimate the most likely checkout breakpoint.
Enter rough evidence from the same date range. The output is a free triage snapshot, not a guarantee or platform verdict.
Sample evidence shortcutLoad a checkout traffic-with-no-orders scenario.
Use this when you know sessions and checkout visits exist, but do not have a clean same-date-range evidence pack ready yet.
Checklist route: Checkout TruthComing from the ecommerce SEO checklist?
If the ecommerce SEO checklist sent you here, prepare the same-date-range proof before changing checkout, shipping, tax, or payment settings.
- Store URL, platform, theme or checkout app, and the affected country or currency.
- Sessions, add-to-cart, reached-checkout, payment attempts, orders, and abandoned checkout rows.
- Shipping zone, tax or duty display, payment method, discount, inventory, and test order evidence.
- Screenshots for cart, checkout, payment, thank-you page, and any gateway or address error.
Checkout Truth SnapshotHigh priority
Payment authorization or gateway failure
Buyers appear to reach payment, but completed orders are missing. The likely breakpoint is payment authorization, gateway availability, fraud screening, or checkout error handling.
Sessions1200
Reached checkout31
Payment attempts12
Orders0
Next steps
- Run a real test order with the target gateway, currency, country, and device.
- Capture gateway error messages, Shopify payment event logs, and fraud/risk markers.
Evidence needed
- Failed test order screenshot
- Payment gateway event log
- Shopify order timeline or abandoned checkout row
Need a reviewed 1-page Truth Snapshot?
Export this free tool snapshot, attach the proof below, and request a reviewed snapshot before changing checkout, feed, payout, or tracking settings.
Included in the reviewed snapshot
- One-page checkout breakpoint map with the most likely blocker and confidence level.
- Same-date-range funnel sanity check across sessions, carts, checkouts, payment attempts, and orders.
- Screenshot checklist for cart, checkout, payment, shipping, tax, duty, and thank-you evidence.
Attach before sending
- Store URL, target country, device, payment method, and date range.
- Funnel numbers plus checkout, shipping, tax, duty, payment, and gateway screenshots.
- One failed or passed test-order note, abandoned checkout row, or session replay reference.
Price ladder: free tool -> $79 reviewed snapshot -> focused audit or Fix Pack $299+only when the evidence justifies it. No recovery, ranking, approval, or attribution outcome is guaranteed.
Upgrade to a focused audit only if the snapshot shows a cross-system repair across checkout settings, payment, shipping, tax, theme, or tracking.
Reserve reviewed snapshot $79What the first output should tell you
- Most likely checkout breakpoint
- Whether the issue is likely traffic, trust, payment, shipping, tax, duty, tracking, or bot noise
- Screenshot list for a reviewed checkout Truth Snapshot
- Next link to attribution truth if dashboards disagree
Clean boundary
This tool does not guarantee orders or gateway approval. It organizes checkout evidence for the Free tool -> reviewed 1-page Truth Snapshot -> focused audit path.