What is WooFraudGuard?
WooFraudGuard is a WooCommerce anti-fraud plugin that evaluates every order at checkout and assigns it a risk score from 0 to 100. Based on that score it can automatically approve, flag for review, hold for verification, or cancel the order — before payment is collected.
What WooFraudGuard protects against
- Stolen card testing — bots placing rapid low-value orders to verify a card BIN.
- Mismatched identities — shipping to a different country or address than the billing card.
- Datacenter & private-range IPs — orders arriving from cloud/hosting IP ranges, detected out of the box. VPN, proxy and Tor exits need the optional MaxMind integration.
- Disposable email accounts — addresses from throwaway email providers.
- Repeat fraudsters — customers or devices that previously caused a chargeback (premium).
- Bot-speed checkouts — orders placed faster than a human could fill in the form (premium).
Lite tier vs. premium tiers
WooFraudGuard ships with seven built-in rules that work without a license (the Lite tier). A Premium license unlocks four additional rules, order-graph linking, and the Stripe/PayPal dispute webhooks. All three Premium tiers (1 site, 5 sites, unlimited) unlock exactly the same feature set — they differ only in how many sites you may activate on.
| Feature | Lite | Premium |
|---|---|---|
| IP risk (datacenter & private-range IPs) | ✓ | ✓ |
| Address mismatch (billing vs shipping) | ✓ | ✓ |
| Velocity (orders per IP / email / BIN) | ✓ | ✓ |
| Blocklist (email, username, IP, phone, BIN, device) | ✓ | ✓ |
| Email heuristics (disposable domains) | ✓ | ✓ |
| BIN country mismatch | ✓ | ✓ |
| Always-safe (test orders bypass) | ✓ | ✓ |
| Behavioral biometrics at checkout | — | ✓ |
| Fast-checkout bot detection | — | ✓ |
| MaxMind minFraud integration | — | ✓ |
| Chargeback feedback loop (Stripe/PayPal) | — | ✓ |
| Order-graph linking (linked-order lookups) | — | ✓ |
| Risk explanations on flagged orders | ✓ | ✓ |
System requirements
- WordPress 6.4 or later
- PHP 8.1 or later
- WooCommerce 8.0 or later
- Compatible with WooCommerce HPOS and Cart/Checkout Blocks
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