Bots and crawlers create fake carts
Search engine crawlers, add-to-cart bots and background payment requests create fake carts that inflate the cart list.
Tier II · Emerging Problems that are still building up.
3 public reports · first reported 14 June 2024 · last reported 16 May 2025
What's going wrong
Site owners report that the cart list fills with entries created by search engine crawlers, automated add-to-cart bots and background requests from payment plugins.
AI-assisted: written with the help of AI from the reports. The idea report has the full summary.
In the idea report
- The full summary.
- The products the 3 reports are about, and how many came each month.
- Related problems.
No business has been found with this problem yet, so the report has no contacts. All sales are final — no refunds. Pricing.