Title: Merchlint – Store Audit for WooCommerce Author: baltano Published: September 1, 2026 Last modified: September 7, 2026 --- Search plugins ![](https://ps.w.org/merchlint/assets/banner-772x250.png?rev=3676536) ![](https://ps.w.org/merchlint/assets/icon.svg?rev=3676536) # Merchlint – Store Audit for WooCommerce By [baltano](https://profiles.wordpress.org/baltano/) [Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/merchlint.0.2.1.zip) * [Details](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/merchlint/#description) * [Reviews](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/merchlint/#reviews) * [Installation](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/merchlint/#installation) * [Development](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/merchlint/#developers) [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/merchlint/) ## Description 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; sale prices whose scheduled end date has passed and are still running; products with no price at all. * **Catalogue and navigation** — products outside every category; duplicate SKUs; variable products with every variation sold out. * **Content** — descriptions too short to answer a customer’s question; images with no alt 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 scheduled-task queue that stopped running — WP-Cron and Action Scheduler are reported separately — which is what stalls every piece of work meant to happen later. #### 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. #### Every check has a page that explains it Fifteen checks, fifteen pages — linked from the audit screen, next to the rule they belong to. Each page says what the problem costs, which fields the rule reads and which thresholds it compares them against, how to fix it, and when the finding is** not** a problem in your store. That last part is why the pages exist. A rule you cannot argue with is a rule you end up ignoring wholesale, so every page names the cases where the right answer is “hide this and move on”: seasonal goods, spare parts, products sold only by phone. * [All fifteen checks, explained](https://merchlint.com/checks/) * [Why there is no “Fix it” button](https://merchlint.com/changes-nothing/) * [What a finished report looks like](https://merchlint.com/sample-report/) #### 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. The links to merchlint.com are ordinary links. They open in your browser when you click them, and the plugin sends nothing along the way — not your store’s address, not its version, not an identifier of any kind. The only thing in the address is the language your admin is set to, so that a Polish store gets the Polish page. Without a click, nothing leaves your store at all. ## Screenshots [⌊Where to start: the three findings with the largest amount at stake, each shown with the money behind it, before the full list.⌉⌊Where to start: the three findings with the largest amount at stake, each shown with the money behind it, before the full list.⌉[ Where to start: the three findings with the largest amount at stake, each shown with the money behind it, before the full list. [⌊One rule up close: what it checks, what to do about it, a link to the full write- up, and the list of items with the evidence for each — the field read, the value found, the threshold.⌉⌊One rule up close: what it checks, what to do about it, a link to the full write-up, and the list of items with the evidence for each — the field read, the value found, the threshold.⌉[ One rule up close: what it checks, what to do about it, a link to the full write- up, and the list of items with the evidence for each — the field read, the value found, the threshold. [⌊Every rule with its count, split into what came from your own data and what came from your theme or plugins — including the rules that found nothing, which say " clean" rather than staying silent.⌉⌊Every rule with its count, split into what came from your own data and what came from your theme or plugins — including the rules that found nothing, which say "clean" rather than staying silent.⌉[ Every rule with its count, split into what came from your own data and what came from your theme or plugins — including the rules that found nothing, which say “ clean” rather than staying silent. [⌊The dashboard widget: the result of the last audit on the first screen you see after logging in.⌉⌊The dashboard widget: the result of the last audit on the first screen you see after logging in.⌉[ The dashboard widget: the result of the last audit on the first screen you see after logging in. [⌊What changed since the previous audit, and whether the difference came from your store or from a rule of ours that got smarter.⌉⌊What changed since the previous audit, and whether the difference came from your store or from a rule of ours that got smarter.⌉[ What changed since the previous audit, and whether the difference came from your store or from a rule of ours that got smarter. ## Installation 1. Install and activate the plugin. WooCommerce must be active first — WordPress enforces this for you. 2. Open **Store audit** in the admin menu. 3. Press **Scan now**. A store with 50 000 products takes about a minute and a half on the hardware we measure on; a slower host takes longer. You can stop the scan at any point. The audit reads your catalogue and writes only to its own tables. Removing the plugin removes them. **Short PHP time limit?** Nothing to do — the audit reads your host’s own limit and sizes each chunk to fit inside it, then books the next one itself. A shorter chunk means more of them, not less work: the audit still finishes, and it still resumes from where it stopped. If your host reports a limit it does not actually enforce, you can set the chunk yourself in wp-config.php: ``` define( 'MERCHLINT_BUDGET_SECONDS', 8 ); ``` ## FAQ ### Does it change anything in my store? No. It reads your catalogue and reports what it finds. Every change is made by you, in your own admin. This is enforced in the code, not just promised: an automated check refuses to build the plugin if it calls any function that would modify products, categories, media or orders. ### Will it slow my store down? The scan runs in the background, in short slices, and it only touches the admin side. Your storefront is not involved. If the scan is interrupted — a server restart, a deployment — it picks up where it left off and gives the same result as an uninterrupted run. ### Can I audit a store with tens of thousands of products? Yes. A scan of 50 000 products completes in about 90 seconds and the results are paginated, so a rule with twelve thousand findings still opens instantly. ### Why does it check WP-Cron and Action Scheduler? Because a stalled queue fails quietly. WP-Cron and Action Scheduler are what WooCommerce and its extensions book later work on — order emails, the end of a scheduled sale, stock released from abandoned carts, subscription renewals — and neither your storefront nor your order list will tell you they stopped. The store keeps selling. It just stops doing everything that was meant to happen later. The two queues are reported as separate findings, because they stop for different reasons and are fixed in different places. What the rule measures is the age of the oldest overdue action, not how many are waiting: a store with no visitors always has a queue full of them and is perfectly healthy, because the first visitor clears it. Anything overdue by more than a day is not quiet, it is broken — and that threshold is yours to move. ### What does “store health” cover here? Everything the fifteen checks touch, not only product fields: the catalogue and its categories, the media library and the files behind it, the size of your autoloaded options, and the versions of PHP, WordPress and WooCommerce you are running. A store can have faultless product data and still be losing money to a stalled queue or to an unsupported PHP version, so the report covers both. ### Does it work with multilingual stores? Yes. Translations of one product are counted as one product: their SKU is shared deliberately, and their stock is one physical stock, so we never report the same goods twice or double the amount at stake. Polylang is tested with the plugin itself; WPML is recognised through its translation table, which we test against the same data it produces. ### Does it work with HPOS (High-Performance Order Storage)? Yes, with HPOS on and off. Both modes give identical results, amounts included. ### Some of the findings do not apply to my store. Then hide them. Every rule’s page explains when the finding is NOT a problem — seasonal goods, spare parts, products sold only by phone — and hiding is one click. The decision survives future scans, and the hidden items stay visible as a count, so nothing disappears silently. ## Reviews There are no reviews for this plugin. ## Contributors & Developers “Merchlint – Store Audit for WooCommerce” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin. Contributors * [ baltano ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/baltano/) [Translate “Merchlint – Store Audit for WooCommerce” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/merchlint) ### Interested in development? [Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/merchlint/), check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/merchlint/), or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/merchlint/) by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/merchlint/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss). ## Changelog #### 0.2.1 * **New display name: Merchlint – Store Audit for WooCommerce.** Same plugin, same address, same settings — the name now says what it does, for people who find plugins by searching for the job rather than for a brand. * **Every rule now links to its own page**, which explains what the finding costs, exactly how the rule decides, how to fix it, and when it is not a problem worth fixing. The link opens in your browser and carries nothing but the language of your admin; the plugin itself still makes no outbound connections at all. * The plugin’s name on your plugins list is now a link to its home page. Until now it led nowhere. * No change to what the audit checks or reports. A scan of an unchanged store gives exactly the same result as it did under 0.2.0. #### 0.2.0 * **First public release.** Versions 0.1.0 and 0.1.1 below were pre-release: they were reviewed but never published, so this is the first version you can install from the directory. Everything the audit does is listed under 0.1.0. * Two extension points so add-ons can build on the audit: an action when a scan finishes and a filter over the scan settings, plus the scan history behind both. * Rules the current scan did not run are now marked “not in this audit” instead of “clean”. * A scan now keeps its settings even if an add-on hands it a value that cannot be stored — before, one such value silently dropped every threshold the scan was running with, and the second half of the scan used the defaults. * Comparing two audits no longer writes a PHP notice to the log when a setting holds a list rather than a number. * No change to what the audit checks on its own. #### 0.1.1 * Translations now come from translate.wordpress.org instead of files bundled in the plugin. * No change to what the audit checks or reports. #### 0.1.0 * First release. Fifteen checks, resumable scanning, CSV export, per-rule knowledge pages, permanent “hide”, English and Polish. ## Meta * Version **0.2.1** * Last updated **2 days ago** * Active installations **Fewer than 10** * WordPress version ** 6.5 or higher ** * Tested up to **7.1** * PHP version ** 7.4 or higher ** * Language * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/merchlint/) * Tags * [duplicate SKU](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/duplicate-sku/)[store health](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/store-health/) [woocommerce](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/woocommerce/) * [Advanced View](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/merchlint/advanced/) ## Ratings No reviews have been submitted yet. [Your review](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/merchlint/reviews/#new-post) [See all reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/merchlint/reviews/) ## Contributors * [ baltano ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/baltano/) ## Support Got something to say? Need help? 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