Monitor the automations that keep your store running
E-commerce stores run on invisible automation — payment reconciliation, inventory sync, abandoned cart emails, and order fulfillment updates. When one of these jobs breaks, it directly impacts revenue and customer experience. Cronping keeps watch so you can focus on growing.
#!/bin/bash
# Runs every 15 minutes via cron
# Sync inventory from warehouse API
php artisan inventory:sync --all-warehouses
# Notify Cronping on success
curl -fsS https://ping.cronping.com/YOUR_TOKEN > /dev/null
# Or signal failure explicitly
# if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
# curl -fsS https://ping.cronping.com/YOUR_TOKEN/fail
# fiOne line added to your script. Cronping handles the rest.
The cost of silent failures
Abandoned cart emails not sending
Your cart recovery job failed silently. Hundreds of customers never received their follow-up email. The revenue was recoverable — but only if the job had run.
Inventory sync failures cause overselling
Your warehouse sync job hasn't run in 6 hours. You're showing 10 units in stock but shipped the last one 4 hours ago. Customer orders are fulfilled and then cancelled.
Payment reconciliation gaps
The nightly payments reconciliation job failed on Friday. The accounting team discovers the gap on Monday morning — one business day of transactions unaccounted for.
Order status updates stall
Customers are emailing support because their order status hasn't updated in 24 hours. The fulfillment sync stopped — but nobody knew until 50 tickets piled up.
Set up in under 2 minutes
- 1
Identify your critical routines
List the jobs your store depends on — inventory sync, abandoned cart emails, reconciliation, fulfillment updates. Each gets its own heartbeat.
- 2
Add one line per job
Call the Cronping URL at the end of each script or cron command. Works with PHP, Python, Node.js, bash, Laravel artisan, or any job runner.
- 3
Get alerted before customers do
If a job fails or misses its window, your team is notified immediately — before customers email support, orders are cancelled, or finances go out of sync.
Everything you need
No SDK, no dashboard agent, no infrastructure to manage.
Works with any platform
Shopify, WooCommerce, Magento, custom-built stores — if you have a cron job or scheduled command, Cronping can monitor it.
High-frequency monitoring
Monitor jobs that run every 5 or 15 minutes. Inventory syncs, price updates, stock alerts — detect failures within minutes, not hours.
Grace periods
Some syncs take longer during peak traffic. Set a grace period to avoid false alarms during Black Friday or sale events.
90-day run history
Full timeline of every job execution. Correlate failures with revenue impact, or prove SLAs to your fulfillment partner.
Route alerts to the right team
Inventory failures go to ops. Payment issues go to finance. Fulfillment problems go to the warehouse team. All from the same platform.
Failure vs. missed window
Distinguish between a job that ran and failed vs. a job that never started. Different problems, different responses.
Frequently asked questions
Shopify Flow runs server-side automation that's harder to ping externally. However, if you have custom Shopify jobs, webhooks, or a backend API that triggers automation, you can add Cronping pings to those.
WooCommerce uses WordPress cron (WP-Cron). Add an action hook to your WooCommerce job that fires a wp_remote_get() call to Cronping at the end of execution.
Yes. Cronping supports any cron schedule including high-frequency jobs like `*/5 * * * *`. Set a grace period of 1–2 minutes to account for execution time.
Create a heartbeat matching your cart recovery schedule (e.g., every 30 minutes). Add the ping at the end of your email-sending logic — not just when the job starts. If the emails fail to send, the ping won't fire.
Wrap your 3PL API calls in a script or job. Add the Cronping ping on success and /fail on API errors. This gives you visibility into both your code and the 3PL's API availability.
Stop discovering failures when it's too late.
Free to start. No credit card required. Add your first heartbeat in under 5 minutes.