Set up Cart Lookout in five minutes

Add your store, install the plugin, paste one token. Then we test your checkout around the clock.

You need a WooCommerce store and admin access to its WordPress. There’s nothing to configure in WooCommerce itself, and your customers won’t notice a thing.

1. Add your store

Sign in to your dashboard. Under Add a store, type your shop’s address (for example https://yourstore.com) and press Add store.

The Cart Lookout dashboard with the setup checklist and the Add a store box — New accounts see a short checklist and the Add a store box.

2. Install the plugin

The next page shows your connection token and a link to download the plugin. In your WordPress admin, go to Plugins → Add New → Upload Plugin, choose the file, press Install Now, then Activate.

The Connect page with the plugin download link, the connection token and the Connect button — Keep this page open: you’ll need the token in a moment.

WordPress Add Plugins page with the Upload Plugin box and the Install Now button — WordPress → Plugins → Add New → Upload Plugin.

3. Paste the token

In WordPress, open WooCommerce → Cart Lookout. Paste the token from your dashboard and press Save token. It’s stored encrypted and never shown again.

The Cart Lookout plugin settings in WooCommerce with the token pasted into the Connection token box — WooCommerce → Cart Lookout. Paste, then Save token.

4. Connect

Back on your dashboard, press Connect. We check the plugin answers, then run your first check within a few minutes. You don’t need to wait on the page.

5. Your first check

When the first check passes, your store shows Protected. From then on we check the checkout page every 30 minutes and place a full test order every 2 hours, plus one soon after every plugin, theme or WordPress update. Every Monday you get a short report of the week.

A store page showing Protected, the last test order’s steps all passed, and recent checks

If something gets in the way

Cloudflare or a security plugin blocks us: let Cart Lookout through your firewall.
The dashboard says the store isn’t connected: reconnect the plugin.
Still stuck? Email hello@cartlookout.com and we’ll help.

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