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Metric Monitors: Add to cart, reached checkout rate and more

Just in-time for Black Friday: monitor your store sessions, add to cart, and reached checkout rate in real-time and get alerted when they drop

New: Uptime automated testing analytics on the Overview page

You can now view a 30-day summary of how Uptime is performing directly on the Uptime Overview page

New: Interacting with custom elements during automated test playback

Uptime can now interact with Shopify app injected custom elements during automated test playback

New: Prevent false positive test failures by using Fuzzy Match

Use Fuzzy Match to prevent false positive failures when a test ends on an unintended/unexpected product or collections page

Uptime 2023 Year In Review

Uptime 2023 year in review

New: Metric Monitors · Shopify conversion rate monitoring & more

Real-time monitoring for your most important store metrics to help you detect Shopify downtime and avoid lost sales

We’re joining WeCommerce 🛍️ 🚀

Uptime is joining the WeCommerce family of Shopify apps!

Case study: Uptime detects two AOV impacting Searchspring bugs

Learn how Uptime was able to detect two AOV impacting Searchspring product page upsell issues

How to get notified about outages before Shopify reports them

Learn about the power of a multi-pronged monitoring approach to your online store can help you detect revenue-impacting issues in real-time

Case study: Ramy Brook – Uptime detects AOV impacting upsell issue

Learn how Uptime was able to detect an AOV impacting bug on Ramy Brook's product page upsells

New: Test your store from different locations with Test Markets

Now you can run your automated tests in specific Shopify markets, simulating and testing the shopping experience of a customer from that location

New: Upload Shopify QA tests to Uptime with a single click

We’ve made some major updates to Uptime's automated test flow recording to make it easier than ever to monitor your Shopify online store.

Resolve issues in seconds with Downtime Actions

Take quick action when there are issues or outages on your online store, like pausing your Facebook Ads or reverting a theme change

Get notified the moment a Shopify outage is resolved

Resolved alerts will give you peace of mind knowing when a Shopify outage, Shopify automated testing failure, or a Shopify app outage, has been fixed

Case study: Rockport – Uptime detects flakey product variant selectors

Learn how Uptime detected flakey product variant selectors that were blocking customers from adding to cart

Introducing screenshot comparison for test flow failures

Now in Uptime you can quickly assess issues by comparing test flow failure screenshots with the last successful flow run screenshot

What to do if your Shopify automated testing flow fails

Here's our tips and tricks for what to do when one of your Uptime Shopify automated testing flows fails

Case study: Wpromote and Uptime delivers peace of mind over the holidays

Uptime partners with Wpromote to provide clients with peace of mind over the holiday season

Uptime 2022 year in review

Check out some of the most interesting and surprising Uptime stats & case studies from 2022

Introducing Shopify outage history

Now in Uptime you can view historical Shopify status alerts

Case study: Uptime detects Aftersell post-purchase upsell outage

Uptime detects an Aftersell post-purchase upsell outage, before the developer themselves, saving thousands in potential lost sales

New in Uptime: Easily record mobile sized automated test flows

Now with our Uptime Recorder chrome extension, you can easily toggle to record mobile-sized automated test flows

What should I do during a Shopify outage?

Every merchant has experienced a Shopify outage, that's why we wanted to share our practical tips to save you time and money when Shopify is down

Case study: Uptime catches silent Shopify outage hours before Shopify reports it

As we learned on December 14th, not all Shopify outages are reported on the Shopify status page. Learn how to prepare your store for silent Shopify outages

Case study: Eberlestock – Uptime detects checkout upsell app downtime on Black Friday

Learn how Eberlestock used Uptime to catch a broken checkout upsell app on Black Friday, saving tens of thousands in lost sales

Case study: Strolleria – Uptime detects broken checkout button

Learn how Strolleria used Uptime to detect unclickable checkout buttons on their online store, saving thousands in potential lost sales

New third party apps added to Uptime this month

This month we've added 7 new third party apps for you to monitor in Uptime, including upsell apps like Rebuy and subscriptions apps like Ordergroove

The hidden costs of eCommerce downtime and how to prevent it this holiday season

Black Friday can lead to increases in both sales and eCommerce downtime – learn the true costs of downtime and how to prevent it.

Introducing the Uptime weekly summary email

Learn more about the new Uptime weekly summary email, giving you a detailed breakdown of what’s happened on your online store over the last 7 days

New in Uptime: support for headless stores and advanced debug info

Introducing headless store support and advanced debugging information

Case study: Natural Patch – discovering that traditional uptime monitoring is not enough in eCommerce

Traditional uptime monitoring tools help assess the availability of domains but lack insights into the functionality of the online store and the Shopify platform

Case study: Prismfly – Uptime saves clients AOV by detecting broken upsell app

Learn how Prismfly used Uptime to monitor their client's store, pro-actively detecting a broken upsell app that was impacting AOV

Case study: NoonBrew – Uptime alert about broken add-to-cart buttons saves thousands in lost revenue

Learn how Uptime alerted the NoonBrew team about add to cart failures, saving them thousands of dollars in lost sales

Case study: Uproot Clean – from checkout & conversion rate drops to peace of mind

Since installing Uptime, Uproot Clean's automated tests have run over 1,700 times, allowing Mehul to have peace of mind that his store is being watched 24/7.

Introducing Shopify apps status monitoring

Now with Uptime you can monitor the status of the top Shopify apps that power your online store

How to create an ecommerce website testing checklist with the most common test cases

Learn how to build an ecommerce website testing checklist and populate it with the most common test cases

Uptime August product update

Learn about all the new features added to Uptime this month, including Slack alerts, and more!

Ecommerce testing guide 2022

The ultimate guide on ecommerce QA testing answering the most frequently asked questions about ecommerce website testing

How to get notified the moment Shopify is down

Learn how to monitor the Shopify platform status and get alerted the moment Shopify is down

How to create an automated Shopify test flow with Uptime

Learn how to create and run automated test flows on your Online Store with Uptime