Social Proof: Live Visitors, Sales Notifications & Stock Urgency

About the Extension

Turn hesitation into a purchase

A visitor lands on your product page, sees the price, and stalls. Nothing on the page tells them anyone else wants this item. Social Proof fills that gap with figures taken straight from your shop.

Six signals on your product page

• Live visitors – "14 customers are viewing this item right now", updating live without a page reload.
• Recent sales – "23 sold in the last 24 hours", read from real orders. Cancelled orders are excluded automatically.
• Cart activity – "8 customers have this in their cart", the strongest signal short of a purchase.
• Product views – "342 views in the last week", so quieter shops still have something to show.
• Stock urgency – "Only 3 left in stock", shown only where the stock is genuinely limited.
• Checkout urgency – "12 customers are checking out right now" on the cart and confirm pages.

Purchase notifications across the whole shop

Small notifications in a corner of the screen announce real purchases as they happen, on every page. Product image, product name and how long ago, linked to the product. A visitor who closes one sees no more for that visit, and they never appear during checkout.

A live view for you, in the admin

A card on your dashboard shows what is happening in your shop this minute: visitors on product pages, how many people are in checkout, product views today, and ranked lists of what is being viewed and what is sitting in carts. Your analytics tool shows you last week. This shows you now. The card has no minimum values, so it works from the moment you install, even on a brand new shop.

Real numbers. No fake values.

Many social proof extensions let you set a multiplier or a minimum value, so the shop displays a number no one earned. This plugin has no such setting anywhere, on purpose. Stock urgency appears only on clearance products, because any other product can be reordered and the scarcity would not be real. Every figure comes from your own orders, carts and traffic.

No cookies. No consent banner.

The plugin sets no cookie of its own and stores no IP address. Visitors are told apart using the session your shop already maintains, hashed before it is used and discarded when the session ends. Nothing follows a visitor between visits, nothing is shared with a third party, and no data leaves your server. There is no entry to add to your consent tool and no new obligation in your privacy policy.

Built to stay fast

Figures load through a single request per page, so the HTTP cache is never bypassed or polluted. Counters are kept in the cache layer and written to the database by a scheduled task, so a busy shop never does a database write per page view. Bot and crawler traffic is filtered out by default.

Set up in minutes

Install, activate, and switch on the elements you want. Every element has its own on and off switch, its own minimum threshold and its own icon. Four designs, three colour settings, and full configuration per sales channel. English and German included.