BuildsByLuke Order Flight Recorder for WooCommerce

Your store took the order. Did everything that was supposed to happen afterwards actually happen? WooCommerce fails quietly. A webhook feeding your CRM, fulfilment or Zapier gets auto-disabled after five failed deliveries - with no email, no dashboard notice, and official recovery via the REST API. A gateway update silently switches an express-checkout button on for your customers. An order sits in "pending" after the customer paid. The Action Scheduler queue that runs renewals and order emails backs up. An order email is simply never generated - and a mail logger can't log an email that never existed. Order Flight Recorder watches all five, records a timeline, and when something changes it names the most plausible culprit: the plugin/theme/core update that immediately preceded the change. The five detectors (all free):

• Webhook sentinel - instant email alert when WooCommerce disables or degrades a webhook, a Site Health check that turns critical while one is down, and one-click re-enable from the plugin's own screen (no REST call needed). Optional auto-recovery retries the re-enable for you a few minutes later, up to three times a day, and then leaves it for a human.
• Payment-surface drift - snapshots which gateways and express-checkout options your customers see; diffs after every update event and names the likely culprit. Credentials and secret keys are never captured.
• Stuck orders - pending/on-hold orders beyond your thresholds (offline methods excluded), failed-order counts, and an optional "no orders at all for N hours" deadman switch.
• Queue health - Action Scheduler past-due backlog and failures, grouped by the plugin that owns them.
• Order-email reconciliation - records the emails your store should have generated for each status change (per your own email settings) and flags the ones that never were.

Plus: email alerts and a daily digest (only when something needs review), Site Health integration, and a WP-CLI command (wp ofrw status --format=json). Event log history is your setting, defaulting to keep everything - housekeeping, not a tier: no build removes the bound for you. Read-only by design. The plugin never changes gateway settings, orders, or queue entries. The only thing it ever writes is a webhook's status - when you click "Re-enable", or when you switch on auto-recovery yourself (off by default). Quiet by design, too. Nothing this plugin has to say appears outside its own screen: no dashboard banners, no cross-admin notices, no nags. Findings reach you by email, in Site Health, on the WP-CLI command, and on the plugin's own page. The one exception is a single notice on the Plugins screen if WooCommerce is not active, which disappears the moment you activate it. Pro adds Slack/webhook alert channels, a REST status endpoint for agency dashboards, a white-label client report, and a WooCommerce Subscriptions renewals watch (renewal due, no charge attempt). The free version is fully functional and stays that way. Known limitations (honest ones)

• Detection runs on a 15-minute/hourly cadence (plus instant signals where WooCommerce provides them). It is a recorder, not a firewall.
• Email reconciliation starts at activation - historical orders are not judged - and relies on WooCommerce's woocommerce_email_sent signal. It verifies emails were generated and handed to your mailer; it cannot see the receiving inbox.
• Webhook monitoring covers WooCommerce webhooks, not the external service's own health.
• The no-orders deadman is off by default; enable it only if your store normally receives orders at least daily.

1.0.4

• Updated Freemius SDK to the latest version.
• Tested with WordPress 7.1 and WooCommerce 11.2.1.

1.0.3

• Initial public release: webhook sentinel with one-click re-enable and optional auto-recovery, payment-surface drift recorder with culprit attribution, stuck-order detector + deadman switch, Action Scheduler health by owner, order-email reconciliation, alerts + daily digest, Site Health tests and WP-CLI with JSON.