CodeFaeries Store Sentinel

CodeFaeries Store Sentinel is a WooCommerce activity monitor that tracks critical store events and presents them in a clean, chronological feed. Know immediately when orders are trashed, deleted, or change status — and when products disappear from your catalog.

Requires WooCommerce — Store Sentinel is purpose-built for WooCommerce stores. It is built and tested against WooCommerce 7.9 and later; on activation the plugin checks that WooCommerce is active, not which version it is.

Key Features

• Chronological Activity Feed — All critical WooCommerce events in one timeline, sorted newest-first
• Order Tracking — Monitor order trashed, permanently deleted, and status change events
• Product Tracking — Monitor product trashed and permanently deleted events
• Severity Levels — Events classified as info, warning, or critical for quick visual scanning
• Filters — Filter by event type, severity level and date range, with Today / 7d / 30d presets, free-text search, user ID and object ID
• Event Details — Click any event to see full context: order totals, old and new status, product info, the source of the change and the plugin behind it, the acting user, and a status history merging Sentinel events with WooCommerce order notes
• Dashboard Widget — At-a-glance today’s stats on the WordPress dashboard
• HPOS-Native — Built for WooCommerce High-Performance Order Storage from day one
• Privacy-First — Customer emails are partially masked and client IPs are stored only as a salted hash
• GDPR Tools — Personal-data exporter, eraser, and a suggested privacy policy section
• Automatic Cleanup — Daily cron removes events older than the retention period (configurable from 7 days to unlimited; 7-day default)
• Multisite Support — Works on multisite networks with per-site data isolation
• Developer Friendly — Filters and actions for every event, severity, and query

In Store Sentinel Pro

Anomaly detection, email alerts (immediate / hourly / daily digest), webhook
notifications, scheduled email reports, advanced filters (source, object type,
saved per-user presets), CSV export and additional event types (customers,
coupons, shipping) are part of Store Sentinel Pro, distributed separately
from codefaeries.com. The free plugin exposes documented hooks that Pro builds
on. Retention is not one of them: the free plugin already offers unlimited
retention.

Tracked Events

• Order trashed (warning) — Order moved to trash
• Order deleted (critical) — Order permanently deleted
• Order status changed (info) — Order status transition (e.g., processing to completed)
• Product trashed (warning) — Product moved to trash
• Product deleted (critical) — Product permanently deleted
• Order meta deleted (warning) — Order metadata removed; off by default, enable it on the General tab

Privacy

Store Sentinel records WooCommerce store events (order/product trashes,
deletions and status changes) to a custom table in your own database. Customer
emails captured in event context are partially masked, and client IP addresses,
when IP tracking is enabled, are stored only as a one-way SHA-256 hash salted
with your site’s WordPress salt. The raw IP is never written to the database.

Two pieces of data about the person who acted are stored in clear: the display
name, login and role of the logged-in user behind the event, snapshotted so the
history survives that account being deleted; and, when IP tracking is enabled,
the browser user agent string, truncated to 255 characters. Both are exposed
through the personal-data exporter and removed by the eraser.

Store Sentinel does not phone home and does not send any data to external
services. All event data stays in your own database.