If u want help coding this or advice happy to help (for free)
If u want help coding this or advice happy to help (for free)
So, effectively, no you cannot cut this bot off.
To make it worse, the bot doesn't always follow the same pattern. Sometimes slightly different names, addresses, etc.
We initially thought it was fraud attempts, but none of them actually attempt a checkout. They just enter all their info on the checkout page, get the final quote, and bail.
It would have been nice if Google told people about this instead of it just happening. Or allowed you to schedule a time slot for it to do what it's going to do.
Empty Abandoned Carts are useless anyway (for stats and other things - we track bounce rates in other ways), so that would be a large improvement from what is going on right now.
For this particular problem, none of those platforms can provide any assistance.