Many people are reaching checkout but not converting

Topic summary

High checkout initiation but very low completion over the past 2 days.

  • Roughly 100 add-to-cart events per day; 80–90 proceed to checkout; only 8–9 complete purchase.

Current setup meant to reduce friction:

  • Free shipping on every product, worldwide.
  • Single-page checkout.
  • Abandoned checkout messages and other automations enabled (i.e., attempts to recover incomplete purchases).

Core issue:

  • Despite reaching checkout, most shoppers abandon before paying; the poster is unsure what changes their minds at that stage.

Recent update:

  • Abandoned checkout flows have been set up, but no improvement is reported yet.

Status and open questions:

  • No community responses or confirmed causes identified.
  • Unresolved; key unknowns include what specific checkout elements (payment options, trust cues, form friction, unexpected steps) might be driving drop-off.
Summarized with AI on January 17. AI used: gpt-5.

I’ve setup abandoned checkout messages and other automations, every item has free shipping worldwide, don’t understand, if someone has reached checkout whats changing their mind?