How about explaining here how to set up these “simple workflows” or do this blocking as you state. Shopify alone does not appear to have these features.
Topic summary
A Shopify store owner is experiencing 20-50 fake abandoned carts daily, featuring garbled names, suspicious addresses, and sometimes declined credit cards. CAPTCHA has proven ineffective, and the problem is worsening year-over-year.
Suggested Solutions:
- Require customer sign-in at checkout with passwordless authentication (one-time email/text codes)
- Use Shopify Flow order risk filters (requires higher-tier plans)
- Block suspicious IPs via Cloudflare
- Analyze traffic sources and block problematic regions
Key Points:
- One commenter successfully eliminated automated checkout fraud by implementing mandatory sign-in with passwordless authentication, which prevents bots from accessing checkout without valid email verification
- The activity may be testing stolen credit cards or exploiting advertising/analytics systems
- Some fake carts target the cheapest products and use emails like “Testop”
Current Status:
The issue remains unresolved for the original poster. They’ve tried switching to 3-page checkout without success and express frustration that Shopify doesn’t provide free native solutions. The store owner is seeking guidance on analyzing cart data to identify traffic sources but hasn’t implemented the sign-in requirement yet.
So demanding….. you are fully capable of using the search button. You’ll likely find screenshots of workflows including mine, as well as solutions that block the checkout. It’s really not difficult to do your own work. Don’t know what a workflow is? No worries. I got you boo
This board has entire category for Shopify Flow. Check it out. Browse around. It won’t bite. The world is your oyster. Go eat.
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And that’s the key part. Most don’t have addresses. In Flow, create the trigger (abandon cart or customer created), use condition like address doesn’t exist or is empty, then delete customer. Pretty sure you replied to this exact thread about the 77 Greatwood Lane a few weeks ago.
Those fake carts are almost always from bots testing checkout endpoints. Add native checkout protection: disable customer accounts on checkout, and enable the “require contact method” in settings. Take advantage of Shopify’s integrated bot protection by turning on Shop Protect through Checkout settings. You can further decrease spam traffic by blocking certain countries or IP addresses from your storefront.
all mine have addresses, some the same, many not.
Sounds like you’re just making excuses to do nothing. As mentioned a dozen times between this thread and the 77 thread and others, you can delete customers with Flow. Using specific addresses, zip codes, having no address, having a specific email domain, not having an email address at all, the list goes on and on. As mentioned before, again, you have access to all the tools necessary.
You replied to me specifically on that thread. All you had to do is scroll up to see what these ppl are talking about.
So get off the forum and create some workflows. It’s not rocket science. You’ve been on here for a decade. You should know what to do.
Deleting them is not the issue big boy. It is preventing them. Maybe you do not understand English or comprehend it. 10 years, sure, hackers 1 year. Thank you for participating.
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