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Maintained Tested up to 6.8.10 #3 in fomo

ProveSource Social Proof

ProveSource Social Proof increases conversions by up to 17%, boost trust with woocommerce sales notifications and reviews, increase your credibility!

Active installs2K+1K+ tier
Downloads · 30d306▼ -16.8% vs prev. 30d
Rating4.8/572 reviews
Health score59/100Fair
All-time downloads76.8KSince Jun 2018
Support resolved—No recent threads
RequiresWP 3.0PHP 5.2+
Downloads · 7d74▼ -7.5% week over week
Our verdict

Use with caution

ProveSource Social Proof works, but test it on a staging site before relying on it in 2026. It runs on 2K+ sites, is rated 4.8/5 and was last updated 7 months ago, and scores 59/100 on our health check.

  • Loved by users — 4.8/5 from 72 reviews
  • Only tested up to WordPress 6.8 (latest is 7.1)

How does it stack up?

Side-by-side on installs, updates, ratings & support

Daily downloads

51116Jun 29Aug 12Sep 26
Yesterday8
Daily average (1y)31
Peak day998Oct 26, 2025
Last 12 months11.2K

Download spikes usually follow a new release — each site that auto-updates counts as a download.

Rankings

Where ProveSource Social Proof stands today

WordPress.org search rankings

Live position in the plugin search, top 100
KeywordPositionCompeting pluginsCategory
fomo #7 107 Best fomo plugins →
sales popup #69 1,185 Best sales popup plugins →
social proof #13 589 Best social proof plugins →
testimonials >100 1,334 Best testimonials plugins →
woocommerces sales #63 4,564 Best woocommerces sales plugins →

Version adoption

Share of active sites per release.

  • 4.077.9%
  • 3.07.8%
  • 2.25.7%
  • 2.35.1%
  • Other3.5%

Rating breakdown

★★★★★★★★★★ 4.8 from 72 reviews

  • 5★95.8%
  • 4★0.00%
  • 3★0.00%
  • 2★0.00%
  • 1★4.2%

About ProveSource Social Proof

From the official readme · v4.0.1

Description

ProveSource is a social proof tool & fomo app that boosts conversions on your WooCommerce website.

Ever booked a hotel in booking.com because it was hot selling and you didn’t want to miss?
Ever went to a restaurant based on a recommendation?

That’s social proof.
* Consumers trust their what others do more than advertising when making buying decisions.
* Consumers who experience FOMO, are more likely to purchase faster.
* Adding social proof like sales notifications and positive reviews have been shown to increase conversions by up to 17%.

Don’t miss out on the power of social proof notifications!

Social proof is a term known for long time and is often associated with terms such as “Fear Of Missing Out” (FOMO)
and the “herd effect” decision heuristic.

ProveSource automatically connects to your WordPress website and WooCommerce store and pulls recent orders to start displaying sales popup notifications & social proof right away.
This turns your website into a more dynamic and interesting place to boost sales and increase conversions.

ProveSource is a social proof and fomo app that displays recent sales order notifications, page visits and live traffic count.
The sales popup also redirects your customers to the purchased products to create an upsell and cross-sell opportunities.

Feature Highlights

  1. Create Sales Pop to and show recent orders to create FOMO and urgency.
  2. Create 5 star reviews popups and show real positive feedback from your customers to promote add to cart and checkout.
  3. Sales pop notifications show only real orders – build trust by showing real sales.
  4. Beautifully designed orders popup with tons of customizations: position, timing, colors, images etc.
  5. Show sales pop on mobile devices – optimized and displayed on top or bottom.
  6. Boost sales and increase conversions by making the notification fully clickable to take users to the advertised product.
  7. Localized and translated! Fully supports more than 22 languages so you can use socialproof & fomo tactics in your store.
  8. Customize the order popup and fomo notification style, look and feel, position, timing, pages to display and more.
  9. Friendly to your brand and store design, using nudge style instead of obtrusive popups.

Integrations

ProveSource integrated with 100+ services and products including: WooCommerce, Zapier, MailChimp, Elementor, Google Reviews, Capterra, Judge.me and more.
See the full list of integrations here.

ProveSource also builds and maintains Shapo, a reviews and testimonials platform to collect, manage and display testimonials with easy-to-use, beautiful forms, widgets, wall of love and email campaigns.

World Class Customer Support

Our support team is available always via live chat and email – we’re here to make sure you increase conversions, show more reviews, social media followers/likes and more.
A must have social proof platform for your marketing and conversion strategy!

The best alternative to FOMO, UseProof, SalesPop, WPFomify, NotificationX, Nextsale, Nudgify, Bizzy, HoverSignal, Credible, WiserNotify

Why Social Proof & fomo?

  • Increase conversions by showing off recent orders, positive reviews, social proof and sales pop-up notifications
  • Instant social proof that builds trust, credibility and confidence with your visitors – let them know they are not alone and your store is busy
  • If you don’t have many sales you can still show the number of visitors or product and page views to let your customers sell for you

ProveSource is a subscription service, starting at $0 per month (that’s right we offer a free plan), subscription
management is available in the ProveSource website (click the logo in the settings page).

External services

This plugin connects to the ProveSource API to display social proof notifications and collect visitor analytics data.
This plugin adds a tag, provesrc.js to your wordpress website for collecting and displaying social proof popups.

The plugin automatically transmits WooCommerce order data (including customer names, locations, and purchase details) and website visitor statistics to enhance conversion rates through social proof.

This service is provided by Configo LTD: terms of service, privacy policy.

Installation

ProveSource plugin installation is as as easy as it gets, it works with both WordPress and WooCommerce on your websites.
ProveSource automatically connects to your WordPress website and Woocommerce store and pulls orders and signups as they happen.

Instructions:

  1. Install the plugin through the WordPress plugins screen OR unzip the plugin archive to ‘/wp-content/plugins’
  2. In the WordPress ‘Plugins’ page, activate the plugin.
  3. Select “ProveSource” menu item from your admin sidebar.
  4. Copy over your API key from ProveSource dashboard and hit “Save”.
  5. In the ProveSource dashboard hit “New Notification” and follow the wizard to create a “Stream” WooCommerce notification.
  6. Done. Sit back and watch how social proof boosts your sales!

Notice:

  • ProveSource inject the ProveSource javascript code to your website to display notifications and collect visitor data.

  • ProveSource is a cloud based service and the plugin communicates with the ProveSource servers,
    including remote webhook calls, data collected includes product details and customer details.

Changelog

All versions are backwards compatible and included in your plan.

4.0.x

Enhance security with webhook secret field (required)

3.1.x

Updated admin options for WP plugin guideline compatability
Update screenshots

3.0.x

Add woocommerce event selector (multi select)
Add option to import last 30 orders manually
Add debug.log downloader for easier debugging

2.3.x

Update WooCommerce HPOS compatability

2.2.x

Fix woocommerce checkout order action handler to support virtual products
Fix woocommerce address inaccuracies
Fix woocommerce fatal error on refunded order import
Add more order capture options (thank-you, order complete, payment complete)
Add debug toggle for log messages
Add better order location check

2.1.x

Fix initial setup to be called on first install (import past orders)

Full changelog on WordPress.org →

Screenshots

Social proof notification types and options
Social proof notification types and options
Social proof in action
Social proof in action
Dashboard website analytics and stats
Dashboard website analytics and stats
Dashboard list of notifications
Dashboard list of notifications

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Best ProveSource Social Proof alternatives

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Alternatives
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1 NotificationX – FOMO, Live Sales Notification, WooCommerce Sales Popup, GDPR, Social Proof, Announcement Banner & Floating Notification Bar NotificationX Want to boost business trust & conversions? 97% of visitors hesitate to buy because of… by WPDeveloper 30K+ ★★★★★★★★★★ 4.8 (227) 3 days ago 90
2 FOMO & Social Proof Notifications by TrustPulse – Best WordPress FOMO Plugin FOMO & Social Proof Notifications by TrustPulse TrustPulse is a FOMO social proof plugin that leverages the power of social proof to… by Syed Balkhi 10K+ ★★★★★★★★★★ 4.5 (35) 1 year ago 54
4 WiserNotify – Social Proof & FOMO Notifications, WooCommerce Sales Popups, Reviews & Announcement Bar WiserNotify Boost trust & sales with WiserNotify! Show sign-ups, sales popups & reviews. Convert faster… by Wisernotify team 900+ ★★★★★★★★★★ 5 (29) 8 months ago 59
5 WPFomo WPFomo Fomo notification for WordPress. by WPDeveloper 600+ ★★★★★★★★★★ 5 (3) 7 years ago 34
6 Nudgify Social Proof Nudgify Social Proof Increase your sign-ups and sales by up to 15% with real-time Social Proof and FOMO… by Nudgify 500+ ★★★★★★★★★★ 5 (5) 2 months ago 78
7 Social Proof for WooCommerce Social Proof for WooCommerce Motivate your customers to buy from your online store. Show them social proof that other… by ParagonWP 30+ ★★★★★★★★★★ No reviews 1 year ago 33
8 Elite Notification – Sales Popup, Social Proof, FOMO Notification for WooCommerce Elite Notification ELITE-NOTIFICATION is the best FOMO, Sales Pop-up, Comment, Review & WooCommerce… by appsbd 30+ ★★★★★★★★★★ 5 (4) 1 month ago 70
9 Store Notifier – Notifications System for WooCommerce Store Notifier – Notifications System for WooCommerce by wpmobo 20+ ★★★★★★★★★★ No reviews 1 week ago 67
10 Zobair Live Sales Notification Zobair Live Sales Notification Boost WooCommerce store conversions with real-time live sales notification popups. Show… by Jobair Hossain <10 ★★★★★★★★★★ 5 (1) 5 months ago 49
11 Noravo Noravo Boost conversions with lightweight social proof and FOMO notifications for WordPress. by Lewis Ushindi <10 ★★★★★★★★★★ 5 (1) 3 months ago 62

FAQ

ProveSource Social Proof: quick answers

Straight answers, pulled from live WordPress.org data.

Live data from WordPress.org · checked Sep 27, 2026

Is ProveSource Social Proof free?

Yes. ProveSource Social Proof is free to download and use from the official WordPress.org plugin directory.

Is ProveSource Social Proof safe to use in 2026?

ProveSource Social Proof works, but test it on a staging site before relying on it in 2026. It runs on 2K+ sites, is rated 4.8/5 and was last updated 7 months ago, and scores 59/100 on our health check.

How many websites use ProveSource Social Proof?

ProveSource Social Proof is active on 2K+ WordPress websites and has been downloaded 76,753 times since it launched in June 2018. It was downloaded 306 times in the last 30 days.

Does ProveSource Social Proof work with WordPress 7.1?

ProveSource Social Proof is officially tested up to WordPress 6.8.10, while the latest release is 7.1.2. It may still work, but try it on a staging site first.

What PHP version does ProveSource Social Proof need?

ProveSource Social Proof requires PHP 5.2 or higher. Most hosts run PHP 8.x today, so it works on any modern WordPress hosting.

When was ProveSource Social Proof last updated?

The latest version, 4.0.1, was released on February 16, 2026 (7 months ago).

Who makes ProveSource Social Proof?

ProveSource Social Proof is developed and maintained by ProveSource LTD.

What are the best alternatives to ProveSource Social Proof?

The most popular alternatives to ProveSource Social Proof are NotificationX (30K+ installs), FOMO & Social Proof Notific… (10K+ installs) and WiserNotify (900+ installs).

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