<p><b>Fraud Shield for WooCommerce </b><span style="font-weight: 400">protects your store by blocking spam orders and fake user registrations. It validates user registration, billing, and shipping details, as well as technical fields such as IP address, device type, OS, domain, and subdomain. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400"><strong>Fraud Shield for WooCommerce</strong> is your smart defence against fake signups and spam orders. It uses intelligent validation across registration, billing, shipping, and technical fields (such as IP, OS, and device type) to block suspicious activity, keeping your store secure and clean.</span></p>
<h3>Types of Fraud Shield Rules</h3>
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<li>Block disposable or suspicious email domains</li>
<li>Detect and block users by IP address, device type (mobile, desktop, bot, etc.)</li>
<li>Detect and block users by operating system (e.g., Android, Windows, Unknown OS)</li>
<li>Block spam user registrations using field-level validation</li>
<li>Prevent fake or suspicious orders by validating checkout fields</li>
<li>Validate billing and shipping details (name, phone, email, ZIP, etc.)</li>
<li>Automatically record users who trigger blocked values as “<strong>Blocked Users</strong>“</li>
<li>Maintain a Blocked <strong>User Log </strong>with detailed info (IP, device, OS, etc.)</li>
<li>Maintain a <strong>Debug Log</strong> to track validation and blocking events</li>
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<h2>Why you should add Fraud Shield for WooCommerce</h2>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400">Fraud Shield for WooCommerce is essential for safeguarding your store against the risks of fake sign-ups, spam orders, and fraudulent activities.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400">By validating user registration details, billing and shipping addresses, and technical parameters such as IP address, device type, operating system, and domain, it prevents suspicious transactions before they impact your business.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400">Adding Fraud Shield is not just about security — it’s about building trust, maintaining smooth operations, and focusing on growing your business without worrying about threats.</span></p>
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<h2>When to add Fraud Shield for WooCommerce</h2>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400">You should add Fraud Shield as soon as you notice or want to prevent suspicious activity in your store. This includes:</span></p>
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<li style="font-weight: 400"><span style="font-weight: 400">Receiving </span><b>spam registrations</b><span style="font-weight: 400"> or fake customer accounts.</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400"><span style="font-weight: 400">Experiencing </span><b>high-order cancellations</b><span style="font-weight: 400"> or chargebacks.</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400"><span style="font-weight: 400">Getting orders with </span><b>incomplete or mismatched billing/shipping details</b><span style="font-weight: 400">.</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400"><span style="font-weight: 400">Seeing </span><b>multiple signups from the same IP or device</b><span style="font-weight: 400"> in a short time.</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400"><span style="font-weight: 400">Expanding your store to </span><b>new regions</b><span style="font-weight: 400"> with higher fraud risk.</span></li>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400">Installing Fraud Shield early helps you stay ahead of threats, avoid revenue loss, and protect your store’s reputation before problems escalate.</span></p>
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<h2>Types of Rules Configurations</h2>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400">Fraud Shield for WooCommerce offers four main types of validation rules to protect your store from spam, fake accounts, and fraudulent orders:</span></p>
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<p><b>Registration Rules:</b></p>
<p>Safeguard your store from fake or spam user signups by validating critical fields during the registration process.</p>
<p>Available settings include username validation to block generic or numeric-only usernames, email username validation to block emails with suspicious local parts, and email domain validation to restrict sign-ups from known spam, disposable, or fake email domains.</p>
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<div class="twocol-one last"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-18734005957183" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/registration_settings.png" alt="Registration settings" width="980" height="719" /></div>
<div class="twocol-one"><b>Checkout Billing Address Rules:</b></p>
<p>Validate billing details during checkout to prevent fake orders and suspicious transactions. These rules identify incomplete, invalid, or mismatched billing data, stopping fraud before it reaches payment processing.</p>
<p>Available settings cover validation for billing details, including name, address, city, state, country, postal code, email, phone number, and company. This helps block fake, invalid, or disposable information to maintain data accuracy and prevent fraudulent or low-quality orders.</p>
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<div class="twocol-one last"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-18734005957187" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/checkout-settings.png" alt="checkout settings" width="980" height="798" /></div>
<p><b>Checkout Shipping Address Rules:</b></p>
<p>Ensure shipping details are accurate and legitimate. By blocking fake or bot-generated addresses, these rules reduce delivery issues, save fulfilment costs, and maintain a smooth order experience for genuine customers.</p>
<p>Available settings cover validation for shipping details, including first and last names, address, city, state, country, postal code, phone number, and company. This ensures the blocking of fake, invalid, or suspicious entries to maintain accurate and trustworthy order information.</p>
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<p><b>Technical Rules:</b></p>
<p>Go beyond basic form validation with system-level checks. Technical rules verify IP addresses, browsers, device types, and other metadata to detect patterns linked to fraudulent behavior. This adds a powerful, invisible layer of protection that works in real time.</p>
<p>Available settings include validation for IP address, device, browser, operating system, email domain, user role, and user ID, allowing you to block traffic from suspicious sources, outdated systems, disposable email domains, restricted user roles, or known spam accounts.</p>
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<div class="twocol-one last"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-18734005957189" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/technical-settings.png" alt="Technical Settings" width="980" height="894" /></div>
<p>With these four layers of configurable rules, Fraud Shield provides <b>precise, proactive control</b><span style="font-weight: 400"> over fraud prevention, helping you block bad actors without disrupting genuine customers.</span></p>
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<h2>Global Settings</h2>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400">The General Settings section allows store owners to manage the core functionality of the </span><b>Fraud Shield for WooCommerce</b><span style="font-weight: 400"> extension.</p>
<p>It provides global controls to enable or disable the extension, configure how fraud detection rules behave, and manage logging for security insights and debugging. <br />These settings help ensure that validation rules are applied efficiently while offering visibility into all blocked attempts</span><span style="font-weight: 400">.<br /><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-18734005957198" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/global-settings.png" alt="Global Settings" width="980" height="654" /><br /></span></p>
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<h2>Blocked User Section</h2>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400">The “</span><b>Blocked User</b><span style="font-weight: 400">” section of this extension offers a comprehensive dashboard that lists all users who were blocked due to failing fraud detection rules during registration or checkout.</span></p>
<p><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-18734005957209" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/blocked-users.png" alt="blocked users" width="980" height="560" /></p>
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<h2>Prevent fraudulent registrations from specific email domains</h2>
<p><strong>Scenario:</strong> You want to prevent fake account creation using disposable emails and suspicious addresses, commonly used for testing or fraudulent purposes.</p>
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<p><strong>Steps to create the validation rule:</strong></p>
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<li>In your store’s WP Admin dashboard, go to <em>WooCommerce > Settings > Fraud Shield</em>.</li>
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<li>Add a Registration Rule:
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<li>Enable fraud shield for registration</li>
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<li>Enable email validation</li>
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<li>Add value in block email domains like tempmail.com, mailinator.com</li>
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<li>Save your changes for the registration rule <img src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/registration-user-block-admin-settings.png?w=980" alt="" /></li>
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<li>Now, if a customer adds an email with a domain name that is blocked with error message. <img src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/user-registration-validation.png" alt="" /></li>
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<h2>How to Block Fraud Orders</h2>
<p>Configure to protect your WooCommerce store by blocking fraudulent orders automatically. Use smart filters like user email, name, and other identifiers to stop scammers before checkout.</p>
<h3>Ways to Block Fraudulent Orders:</h3>
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<li><strong>Block by Email Address</strong> – Add suspicious or blacklisted email IDs to automatically prevent new orders.</li>
<li><strong>Block by Customer Name</strong> – Stop repeat offenders or fake name patterns (e.g., “Test User,” “Demo Buyer”).</li>
<li><strong>Block by Domain</strong> – Restrict orders from disposable or spammy email domains like <em>@tempmail.com</em>.</li>
<li><strong>Custom Rule Setup</strong> – Create multiple blocking conditions (email + name + payment method) for maximum protection.</li>
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<p><b>Admin Setting Screen</b></p>
<p><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-18734005957546" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/admin-order-block-by-email-settings.png" alt="admin order block by email settings" width="980" height="493" /></div>
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<p><b>Checkout Page Screen</b></p>
<p><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-18734005957547" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/checkout-page-email-block.png" alt="" width="980" height="623" /></div>
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<h2>How to Get Started</h2>
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<li>Download, install, and activate this extension.</li>
<li>Check out our <a href="https://woocommerce.com/document/fraud-shield/">detailed documentation</a> to help you customize your fraud prevention tools specific to your store’s needs.</li>
<li>Something missing or could be done better? We love feedback — let us know how we’re doing via support and we’ll gladly assist!</li>
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Fraud Shield

<p>Protect your WooCommerce store from spam orders and fake registrations with ease.</p>

<h2 style="color: #f5247d">Sell license keys for software</h2>
<p><strong>WooCommerce Software Add‑on</strong> gives you end‑to‑end licensing inside WooCommerce. Generate keys on purchase, manage activations and upgrades, and keep support simple by managing everything where you already fulfill orders.</p>
<h2 style="color: #f5247d">Sell licenses and upgrades</h2>
<p>Mark any product as software, set licensing rules, and let the add‑on handle the rest. Customers buy like any other product, and when the order is <strong>completed</strong> they automatically receive their license key, activation email, and activation limits in the order‑complete message.</p>
<figure id="attachment_17590" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-17590" style="width: 558px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img class="wp-image-17590" title="screen-capture-2" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/screen-capture-21-620x371.png" alt="The software settings" width="558" height="334" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-17590" class="wp-caption-text">The software settings</figcaption></figure>
<figure id="attachment_17588" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-17588" style="width: 261px" class="wp-caption alignright"><img class="wp-image-17588" title="screen-capture" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/screen-capture1.png" alt="If enabled, users can upgrade old keys for a reduced price" width="261" height="230" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-17588" class="wp-caption-text">If enabled, users can upgrade old keys for a reduced price</figcaption></figure>
<p>If you introduce a paid upgrade, define eligible past keys and an upgrade price. During checkout, customers enter their existing license and receive upgrade pricing automatically.</p>
<h2 style="color: #f5247d">View purchased keys</h2>
<p>See exactly which key belongs to which order, including remaining activations, right on the WooCommerce Edit Order screen. Need to resend the license email? Use the built‑in “Send” action without leaving WooCommerce.</p>
<figure id="attachment_17591" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-17591" style="width: 558px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img class="wp-image-17591" title="screen-capture-5" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/screen-capture-51-620x183.png" alt="Licenses and activations on the orders page" width="558" height="165" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-17591" class="wp-caption-text"><br />Licenses and activations on the orders page</figcaption></figure>
<p>For a global view, go to <strong>WooCommerce → License Keys</strong> to search, filter, and bulk‑revoke keys when necessary.</p>
<h2 style="color: #f5247d">Track activations and view reports</h2>
<p>Understand usage at a glance. The <strong>WooCommerce → Reports → Software</strong> dashboard summarizes sales and activation activity so you can spot trends, enforce limits, and plan upgrades.</p>
<figure id="attachment_17592" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-17592" style="width: 558px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img class="wp-image-17592" title="screen-capture-6" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/screen-capture-61-620x138.png" alt="Activations report" width="558" height="124" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-17592" class="wp-caption-text"><br />Activations report</figcaption></figure>
<h2 style="color: #f5247d">Integrate with your app via API</h2>
<p>Validate licenses from your desktop app, plugin, or SaaS. The API supports generating keys, activating, de‑activating, resetting, and checking validity so you can enforce licensing where it matters: inside your software. See the documentation for endpoints and examples.</p>
<p><strong>Not sure if you need Software Add-on or <a href="https://woocommerce.com/products/woocommerce-api-manager/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">API Manager for WooCommerce</a>?</strong> In most cases, API Manager will be the better fit. If you’re unsure, <a href="https://kestrelwp.com/support" target="_blank" rel="noopener">contact Kestrel support</a> and we’ll help you choose the right extension for your store.</p>
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<h2 style="color: #f5247d">More information</h2>
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<li>Read the Software Add‑on documentation for setup, API details, and upgrade workflows.</li>
<li>Need help getting started? <a href="https://kestrelwp.com/support" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Contact our support team</a>.</li>
</ul>
<p>Made by<br />
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Software Add-on

<p>Sell and manage license keys directly in WooCommerce. Generate keys on purchase, handle activations and upgrades, and keep everything in one place your team already uses.</p>

Fraud Shield vs Software Add-on