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CartBounty – Save and recover abandoned carts for WooCommerce
Great for tracking lost sales but the best tools are strictly premium.
HealthyDeclining
72/100
The plugin provides useful data and easy setup but many core features require a paid upgrade.
Active installs
~21,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 10k+
Rating
4.8★
84 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
-30%
Declining fast
75 → 53 installs/day
What to watch out for
- MINORdownloads down 30% vs a year ago
Downloads over time
real new installs per day · release spikes shown separately from the trend2025-04-302025-08-082025-11-162026-02-232026-06-03
organicrelease spikerelease tailorganic trend · 14d rolling median
Declining fast · -30% in the last year
75/day a year ago→53/day today
Reviews
what people actually sayCartBounty is generally praised for its useful abandonment data and easy setup, but users frequently criticize performance issues with large datasets and the restriction of important features to the paid version.
What people like
- +Provides useful abandonment data and insights×5
- +Easy and quick setup×2
- +Responsive support and timely bug fixes×2
- +Option to disable anonymous carts helps stop bot carts×2
- +Shows live add-to-cart activity and remembers checkout input
Common complaints
- −Performance slows dramatically with large numbers of saved carts
- −No automated cleanup or bulk delete for old anonymous carts
- −Bot protection and advanced blocking features are only available in the Pro version×3
- −Email analytics are limited and only three follow-up emails are allowed
- −Free version strips plain-text email content
- −Key features are locked behind the paid version, leading to upsell concerns×3
- −PHP warning errors reported in reports class
Review trustReviews look organic
- 4.88★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 4.80★
- 14%One-shot reviewers — most reviewers are active community members
Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower
2023-09-182025-02-092026-06-04
5★ reviews1–4★ reviews
All-time ratings · 84 total
Latest reviews · 84 analyzed
- 2025-06-26★★★★★Good Pluginphoenixdransfeld
- 2025-06-24★★★★★Good pluginpavelligaigr1-shot
- 2025-05-13★★★★★muiito ruim very badMarcia
- 2025-04-28★★★★★Free version not recommendednukurt
- 2025-03-21★★★★★Great User Interface. Easy to use. Help with conversions.goldenchannels
- 2025-01-28★★★★★Are you joking?Ruben
- 2024-11-27★★★★★This is a good plugin. I bought the Pro version.utamaspice1-shot
- 2024-11-19★★★★★Bonpaulinechevalier
- 2024-10-14★★★★★the best plugin in woocommercehatata7
- 2024-02-25★★★★★A Crucial Detail Missing in Email Open Statisticsjuato4
Releases
recent versions from WordPress.org SVNAlternatives to CartBounty
Top WooCommerce plugins, ranked by score.For developers & the curious
the raw signals behind the grade — none of this is on the friendly summary aboveDownload signals
Baselines are computed on organic days only — release spikes and their tails are excluded, so they're not inflated by the auto-update wave.
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Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
43
Prior 7-day baseline
182
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
1,552
Mean release-day peak (30d)
227
Latest day · 2026-06-03(organic)
+34.9%
Week-over-week organic trend
Review signals
Concentration and drive-by metrics drive the review-burst and fake-review flags. 30–40% solo reviewers is normal; we only flag the extremes.
16%
Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
1.45
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
91%
5★ share in analyzed sample
14%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
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Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
4.85 → 4.88★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered