# Find Out Why Products Get Left in Carts

> Looks at your most abandoned products next to their price, stock and sale status to spot the likely reason shoppers leave.

- Job: [Catalog & products](https://storeagent.ai/mcp-recipes/job/catalog/)
- What it does: Read only: looks, never changes anything
- Time saved: ~40 min vs doing it by hand
- Requires: StoreAgent (free plugin, MCP on every plan) + Cart Abandonment Recovery
- Works in: Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and any MCP client connected to the store through StoreAgent MCP
- Web page: https://storeagent.ai/mcp-recipes/why-carts-get-abandoned/

## The prompt

```text
Find the 10 products shoppers abandoned most in the last 30 days. For each one, look up its current price, sale price, stock status and product type. Flag anything that is out of stock, on backorder, priced well above my other products in the same category, or has no sale running while similar products do. Give me a short table, then your best guess at why each of the top 3 gets left behind and one thing to try for each. Do not change anything.
```

## What happens when you paste it

You: Find the 10 products shoppers abandoned most in the last 30 days…

Assistant: Top 10 abandoned products in the last 30 days: 412 carts, $27,300 left behind. 2 of them are on backorder. The Walnut Desk Organizer costs $89, close to double the other organizers. Calling: `wcar/get-product-stats`, `woocommerce/products-query`.

Assistant: Try these: show the backorder date on the Canvas Weekender Bag page, test a $69 price on the Walnut Desk Organizer, and add a small bundle offer to the Ceramic Pour-Over Set.

## Abilities this recipe calls

- **List most abandoned products** (`wcar/get-product-stats`, read only, from Cart Abandonment Recovery): Lists the products shoppers leave in their carts most often, with the total value left behind.
- **Find products** (`woocommerce/products-query`, read only, from WooCommerce): Finds products by name, SKU, status, type or stock status, with prices and stock.

## Variations

Add one of these to the end of the prompt. Swap anything in [brackets] for your own details.

- Only look at products over $50.
- Check the last 7 days instead.

## Related recipes

- [Trash Out-of-Stock Products That No Longer Sell](https://storeagent.ai/mcp-recipes/trash-dead-stock.md): Finds products that are out of stock and have had no orders in a year, so you can clear old listings out of your catalog.
- [Which Products Are Missing Their Options?](https://storeagent.ai/mcp-recipes/ppom-missing-options.md): Find products in a category that do not have the right PPOM field group attached, then attach it after you say yes.
- [Tag Your Newest Products Consistently](https://storeagent.ai/mcp-recipes/tag-catalog.md): Gives every recent product a clean, consistent set of tags so related products stop coming up empty.

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Part of the StoreAgent WooCommerce MCP Recipes directory: https://storeagent.ai/mcp-recipes/ (index for LLMs: https://storeagent.ai/mcp-recipes/llms.txt). Get StoreAgent free: https://app.storeagent.ai/sign-up/