Lots of abandoned cartes due to bots

-- HikaShop version -- : 3.0.0
-- Joomla version -- : 3.6.5
-- PHP version -- : 7.1

Hi,

I just deleted a huge amount of abandoned carts. I wondered why they were there. One one day there were more abandoned carts then visitors. I noticed that these carts had something in common. They all contained only one product and most of the time five abandoned carts were created within one minute.

I checked my server acces log and found out that bots were causing this. I've blocked the worst bot on server level. But there are still other bots doing the same every now and then.

Is there a way to prevent this from happening from within Hikashop?

Best regards,

Joep

I've downloaded and installed Hikahop (Buld 1703031610) again, but the problem is still there.

The rel="nofollow" is present, but bots were still adding products to the cart. I've added this line to my robots.txt:

Disallow: /*updatecart/add*

Problem solved.

Hello,

I have the same issue. How can I fix/block them?
Should I install this: www.hikashop.com/support/documentation/7...-with-recaptcha.html

Thank you in advance.

Edit: I have install ReCaptcha but bit is still doing it work.

Hello and I hope that you are well,

For 5 months and after I add the line that you suggested bots couldnt recreate carts.
But now it seems that that they can do that, but in a smaller amount.

Is there something that I can do to prevent that from happening?

Thank you in advance.

Hello nicolas,

I will test that.

Thank you for helping me.

Just a quick note for those with multi-language site: remember to prefix the rule with the language:
Disallow: /it/*updatecart/add*
Disallow: /en/*updatecart/add*
Disallow: /fr/*updatecart/add*
This seems to work