A complete checkout journey
Shop → product → add to cart → apply a coupon → shipping details → place order → confirmation. Run on a schedule, every step screenshotted, success asserted on the real “Your order has been received” text.
Watch NorthDuty Catch a Broken Checkout
Summit & Trail Outfitters is a real WooCommerce store we run for exactly one purpose: breaking it on demand. It has a catalogue, coupons, guest checkout, login, quote and repair forms, and a first-party stock API — the same moving parts as any client store. NorthDuty monitors all of it, and this page shows what that looks like when something gives way.
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What the demo covers
The store exercises every monitoring layer NorthDuty ships, on the flows a WooCommerce agency actually worries about.
Login, quote, repair & contact forms
The store's customer login and four lead forms run as journeys too — because on a client site, a form that swallows submissions is lost business nobody notices.
Visual baselines on key pages
Homepage, product, and campaign pages are captured on a schedule and diffed against the previous baseline, so a theme or plugin change shows up as an outlined region, not a surprise.
Store health and the stock API
Uptime, SSL, DNS, JavaScript errors, and the store's live price/stock endpoint are checked continuously — the API failures that break product pages surface even before a page does.
The checkout journey, as NorthDuty runs it
Three of the captured steps from a scheduled checkout run on the demo store — a real browser doing what a customer does.
Step: product page
Open the product, verify live stock
The journey opens a product page and the live-stock badge — fed by the store's own API — must resolve before adding to cart.
Step: checkout details
Fill shipping and pick a payment option
Name, address, shipping method, payment selection — the fields where checkout plugins most often break after an update.
Step: confirmation
Assert the order actually went through
The run only passes when the store says “Thank you. Your order has been received.” — not when the page merely loads.
The break — and what NorthDuty showed
Then we flip one of the store's break switches. This is the difference between “the site is up” and “the site works.”
Journey failure
The form dies behind a 200-looking site
The contact journey submits and gets an Internal Server Error. The homepage is fine, uptime is green — only the journey sees this page, and the alert names the exact step.
Visual diff
The homepage changed — here's exactly where
A change to the storefront shows up as outlined regions over the dimmed page. You read what moved in seconds and decide whether it was intentional.
A demo store with real failure modes, not a mockup
Most monitoring demos show a green dashboard. That proves very little — the interesting question is what happens when the checkout stops working while the homepage still returns 200. So we built a store that fails the way client stores actually fail: an internal error behind a form submission, a layout that shifts after a change, an API that stops answering, a checkout step that quietly breaks.
Every screenshot on this page is a genuine capture from NorthDuty monitoring this store — journeys walking cart and checkout in a real Chromium browser, screenshot baselines being diffed pixel-by-pixel, and a failing step reported with exactly what the browser saw at that moment.
What this demo is meant to prove
Not that dashboards can be green — that failures which never show up as downtime still get caught, named, and evidenced.
- A broken flow is reported as the failing step plus a screenshot, not as a vague red light
- Failures behind a healthy homepage — forms, checkout, APIs — are exactly what journeys exist for
- Visual diffs turn “something looks different” into an outlined, reviewable change
- Everything here is the standard product — no special demo build, the same monitoring you'd put on a client store
Explore the same demo in your own account
The demo project is built into NorthDuty — you get this exact store, journeys and history included.
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Create a free account
No card required. Every new account starts with 7 days of full access.
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Click “Add demo project”
On your empty projects page, one click clones the Summit & Trail demo — and it doesn't count against your plan limits.
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Open the journeys and diffs
Step through the checkout run, the form journeys, and the visual baselines exactly as shown on this page.
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Then add a site you actually care about
Point NorthDuty at your own store or a client site and enable the journeys it suggests.
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Is the demo store real?
Yes — Summit & Trail Outfitters is a live WordPress/WooCommerce store we operate, with a real catalogue, coupons, forms, and a first-party stock API. Its payment method completes orders without real money, and we break it deliberately to show what monitoring catches.
Do I get access to this demo?
Yes. Create a free NorthDuty account and use “Add demo project” — you get a clone of this store's project with the journeys, screenshots, and monitors already configured. It doesn't consume your plan limits.
Will NorthDuty place real orders on my store?
Only if you configure it to. Journeys run with the test-safe accounts and inputs you choose — many stores use a test-mode gateway or a no-payment method like this demo does, or stop the journey before payment.
Are these screenshots staged?
They're real captures from NorthDuty monitoring the demo store — the checkout steps, the Internal Server Error, and the visual diff are all what the product recorded when the store ran and when it broke.
Call To Action
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