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Stop Black Friday Sale Automation with Prosopo

Protect your e-commerce platform from automated scripts that unfairly buy up limited products during major sales events.

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Stop Black Friday Sale Automation with Prosopo

What is Sale Automation?

Sale automation is a type of bot abuse in e-commerce where automated scripts or programs purchase limited-stock items faster than human shoppers can. These bots are commonly used during high-demand events like Black Friday, Cyber Monday, and flash sales to gain an unfair advantage.

The result is that genuine customers are often unable to purchase popular products, while bots or resellers hoard inventory to flip it at higher prices. This not only frustrates shoppers but also damages brand reputation and reduces overall customer trust.

Common Issues Caused by Sale Automation

Automated buying scripts can create several significant problems for retailers and consumers alike:

  • Stock Hoarding: Bots purchase large quantities of limited items in seconds, leaving little for real customers.
  • Reseller Exploitation: Bots enable resellers to acquire products for resale at inflated prices, undermining fair access.
  • Lost Sales Opportunities: Genuine customers miss out, which can hurt long-term loyalty and brand perception.
  • Website Performance Strain: High-frequency bot traffic can overload servers and cause site slowdowns or crashes.
  • Skewed Analytics: Automated purchasing inflates traffic and sales data, making it difficult to measure real consumer demand.

These issues are particularly severe during major sales events, where demand spikes and customer expectations are high.

How Prosopo Protects Your Sales Events

Prosopo’s Procaptcha provides advanced bot protection to safeguard high-demand sales:

  • Real-Time Bot Detection: Identify and block automated scripts before they can make purchases.
  • Fair Access for Real Customers: Ensures that deals and limited-stock items reach actual shoppers.
  • Seamless Integration: Easily add bot protection to your e-commerce platform without disrupting the shopping experience.
  • Privacy-First: Fully GDPR-compliant, keeping user data safe while preventing fraudulent activity.
  • Scalable Protection: Handles high-volume events like Black Friday or flash sales without slowing down your site.

By deploying Prosopo, retailers can protect revenue, maintain customer trust, and prevent unfair stock hoarding.

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After bots repeatedly bypassed both Google reCAPTCHA and Cloudflare Turnstile on our sites, we switched to Prosopo—and the difference was immediate. We haven’t seen a single bot submission since. Highly recommend giving it a try!
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I've installed Prosopo's CAPTCHA widget on my website to filter out spam from my contact form. Getting it working was a little bit tricky but the support from Chris has been first class.
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Switching to Prosopo's Procaptcha was a massive improvement over other solutions we've previously tried which include hCaptcha and reCaptcha.

We managed to greatly reduce the friction and churn rate of our users
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