Checkout Detector

Detects if a website has an active, accessible checkout or payment capability. It accurately identifies e-commerce platforms, SaaS signup walls, and extracts specific payment providers.

This Actor is designed to be highly reliable, using a 6-step detection cascade (including smart routing and platform-specific API probes) to minimize false positives and hallucinations.

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🚀 Features

• Checkout Page Discovery (Smart Routing): 🚀 MASSIVE ADVANTAGE: You don't need to know the exact checkout URL. Your users don't have the time to manually hunt for the checkout links of every single website. Just provide the company's root domain (e.g. example.com), and our crawler will intelligently navigate the site, locate the checkout flow (whether it's /cart, hidden in an iframe, or a third-party modal), and extract the required data. Perfect for enriching thousands of rows in Clay where you only have domains!
• High Accuracy (6-Step Cascade): Transitions from passive HTML/DOM scanning to JS global checking, network interception, and active API/CTA probing.
• Payment Provider Extraction: Identifies specific gateways and methods (Stripe, PayPal, Apple Pay, Google Pay, Visa, Mastercard, Amex, Discover, etc.).
• Platform Detection: Recognizes major platforms like Shopify, WooCommerce, Magento, BigCommerce, Wix, etc.
• Third-Party Checkout Support: Detects external checkout links like Gumroad, Lemon Squeezy, Paddle, FastSpring, Stripe Checkout, etc.
• SaaS "Sign Up" Awareness: Understands when a checkout is hidden behind a SaaS login wall (checkout_accessible: false).

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📥 Input Schema

Field	Type	Default	Description
url	String	Required	The URL or domain to analyze (e.g., https://example.com)
maxPages	Integer	5	Maximum number of pages to crawl
timeoutSeconds	Integer	30	Maximum execution time per page in seconds

Example Input:

{
  "url": "https://zuvees.ae",
  "maxPages": 3,
  "timeoutSeconds": 30
}

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📤 Output Schema

The Actor pushes a single JSON object to the Apify Dataset per run.

Field	Type	Description
domain	String	The root domain of the analyzed website
has_checkout	Boolean	true if an active checkout or payment intent was detected
checkout_type	String	Categorization of the checkout (ecommerce, saas, third_party, donation, unknown)
checkout_accessible	Boolean	true if the checkout can be reached without a signup/login wall (SaaS checkouts are usually false)
detection_method	String	The strongest signal used to confirm the checkout (e.g., shopify_probe, js_global, cta_probe)
payment_providers	Array	List of detected payment gateways and methods (e.g., ["Stripe", "Apple Pay"])
ecommerce_platform	String	Detected platform (e.g., Shopify, WooCommerce), or null
confidence	Number	Confidence score from 0.0 to 1.0 based on accumulated evidence
scraping_status	Object	Metadata regarding execution time, errors, and bot blocks

Example Output (Shopify Store):

{
  "domain": "zuvees.ae",
  "has_checkout": true,
  "checkout_type": "ecommerce",
  "checkout_accessible": true,
  "detection_method": "shopify_probe",
  "payment_providers": [
    "Apple Pay",
    "Google Pay",
    "Visa",
    "Mastercard"
  ],
  "ecommerce_platform": "Shopify",
  "confidence": 0.99,
  "evidence_score": 58,
  "scraping_status": {
    "phase_completed": "browser_scan",
    "blocked": false,
    "pages_visited": 1,
    "time_elapsed_ms": 8450
  }
}

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💡 Use Cases (Clay / CRM enrichment)

Map the output directly to your Clay tables:

• Filter prospects: Only target sites where has_checkout is true and checkout_accessible is true.
• Personalize outreach: Reference their specific ecommerce_platform or suggest alternative payment_providers.
• Combine with the Pricing Detector Actor to get a complete 360° view of a company's monetization strategy.