Hello I have recently (in the last month or so) started to see what I have named ghost carts on my live view and can’t understand why. This happens several times a day, where there is nobody on the site, but a few minutes before the ghost carts we may have someone from a different country on. So, …

OK thanks, I am not technical, so not sure what that means.

Search engines like Google, Amazon and more scroll through websites to check what prices products are sold for etc.. Usually, Shopify has a way of detecting them and will not show them.

I have had this same problem for years, it is insanely annoying. It will also grow exponentially within a minute or two. It happens constantly, at least several times per hour. I wish @Shopify_77 would do something about this. I’ve seen many threads about this over many years. I’ve tried asking thei…

What causes ghost carts on my ecommerce platform?

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SomeUsernameHe January 3, 2024, 10:12am 2

Possibly a bot/crawler? Not sure…

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What causes ghost carts on my ecommerce platform?

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