Merchlint

Merchlint reads your WooCommerce catalogue and tells you where it is losing you money. Every
finding comes with the value it was based on, so you can check it yourself instead of taking our
word for it.

It changes nothing. No product, no price, no stock level, no order. The audit reads and reports;
every fix is yours to make, in your own admin.

What it looks for

Fifteen checks, in five groups:

• Money — products that sold in the past year and can no longer be bought; goods selling
  without a photo or hidden from the catalogue; sales whose end date has passed and are still
  running; products with no price at all.
• Catalogue and navigation — products outside every category; duplicated SKUs; variable
  products with every variation sold out.
• Content — descriptions too short to answer a customer’s question; images with no alternative
  text.
• Performance and media — oversized image files; bloated autoloaded options; media entries
  whose file is missing from disk.
• Environment — PHP, WordPress or WooCommerce on a version that no longer gets security fixes;
  a background queue that stopped running, which is what stalls scheduled work on a store.

What makes it different

• Every finding shows its evidence. Not “12 636 problems” but the field we read, the value we
  found and the threshold we compared it against.
• It tells you where to start. The three items with the largest amount at stake, first — before
  the full list.
• A zero means “checked, clean”. A rule that could not run says so instead of quietly
  reporting nothing. “No data” and “no problems” are different answers, and you get the right one.
• It never adds up currencies. A store selling in euros and dollars gets a separate figure for
  each. Adding them without an exchange rate would be inventing a number.
• Two scans of an unchanged store give the same result, item for item. When something does
  change, a separate screen tells you what — and whether the difference came from your store or
  from a rule of ours that got smarter.
• “Hide” is permanent. Seasonal stock you already know about stops coming back after every
  scan, and stays hidden across plugin updates.

Your data stays yours

The free version works entirely on your server. No account, no sign-up, no phoning home: the
plugin makes no outbound connections at all, and an automated check enforces that on every build.