NowOrCry Deals

NowOrCry is where local shops post deals and shoppers nearby grab them. This plugin puts your shop’s live NowOrCry deals on your WordPress site, and lets you run the shop from WP Admin.

Your shop in WP Admin (a NowOrCry shop is needed; plans and payments stay on noworcry.com or in the app):

• Its own NowOrCry menu – Overview, Deals, Add deal, Analytics, Insights, Brands, Reviews, Customer help, Store & plan and Settings.
• Deals – post, schedule, edit, pause and delete deals with the same checks as on noworcry.com. Photos are stored by NowOrCry, not in your Media Library.
• Analytics and insights – views, claims and redemptions, shop health, best times to post and how each live deal is doing.
• Brands – answer brand campaigns and partnerships, report stock, add bill numbers to brand redemptions.
• Customers – reply to reviews and to customer help requests.
• Connect in one step – press Connect to NowOrCry, sign in on noworcry.com with Google or your email and choose your shop. Only a shop owner can connect a site, and can disconnect it at any time. Administrators can use it; you can also let Editors in.
• Plans, boosts, payouts, the team and the shop’s name and address stay on noworcry.com. Coupons are scanned with the NowOrCry app.

Deals on your pages:

• Four layouts – a swipeable carousel, cards, a compact list for sidebars, or one spotlight deal.
• One deal in a post – paste a deal’s link from NowOrCry on its own line and it becomes the live deal card. Inside a sentence, the link gets a small live price tag.
• Always live – deals load from NowOrCry in the visitor’s browser on every page view. Nothing is stored on your site, so page-cache plugins and CDNs never show an old deal. Time left counts down on the page, and a deal that ends or sells out leaves your site by itself. A page left open asks NowOrCry again about every 5 minutes.
• Follow button – visitors follow your shop on NowOrCry and get your next deals on their phone.
• Block, widget and shortcode – [noworcry_deals layout="carousel" count="6"].
• Private API key – your server checks the key once and keeps only its id, never the key itself. Visitors never see it.
• You stay in control – revoke the key in NowOrCry and your deals leave the site at the next page view, even on cached pages. A page someone already has open loses them on its next validated refresh, within 6 minutes – not instantly on every open screen.
• No credit link unless you want one – a small “Deals by NowOrCry” link is off by default.

Shortcode options

[noworcry_deals layout="carousel" count="6" follow="yes" new_tab="yes" prices="yes"]

• layout – carousel, cards, list or spotlight
• count – 1 to 24
• follow, new_tab, prices – yes or no

External services

This plugin shows deals from NowOrCry (https://noworcry.com), a service run by Connester SB Global Tech Private Limited. It cannot work without it.

• When you connect your shop (NowOrCry › Connect to NowOrCry), a NowOrCry window opens at https://noworcry.com/connect/wordpress with your site’s address. After you approve there, your server sends a one-time code and a secret only it knows to https://api.noworcry.com and receives a site key. The key is kept on your server only, encrypted with your site’s salts (keep them in wp-config.php), and is never sent to a browser.
• While you use the NowOrCry menu, your server sends each action (for example a new deal, a reply or a stock count) and the name of the WordPress user who did it to https://api.noworcry.com with the site key, and shows the answer. Deal photos you upload are sent to NowOrCry and stored there. NowOrCry keeps a list of what the site changed, which the shop’s owners can see.
• When you disconnect, your server tells https://api.noworcry.com to end the site key, and deletes it.
• When you save an API key in NowOrCry › Website display (sites not connected) › NowOrCry Deals, your server sends the key to https://api.noworcry.com to check it and learn your shop’s name and the key’s id. The key is sent only from your server, never from a visitor’s browser, and is not stored: the plugin keeps only the key’s id, its last four characters and your shop’s id, name and city.
• When you open Settings › NowOrCry Deals, your server asks https://api.noworcry.com whether the key’s id still shows your deals (the same public request a visitor’s browser makes; no key is sent).
• When a visitor opens a page with deals (a block, widget, shortcode or pasted deal link), the visitor’s browser asks https://api.noworcry.com for that shop’s or that deal’s current public details: title, price, picture, time left and coupons left. While the page stays open and in front, it asks again about every 5 minutes. The request carries the shop or deal id and your API key’s id (not the key itself), so NowOrCry can stop showing deals on your site when you revoke the key. No cookies or visitor details are sent; like any web request, NowOrCry receives the visitor’s IP address and browser details.
• Pictures of deals load from NowOrCry’s image service.

NowOrCry terms: https://noworcry.com/terms
NowOrCry privacy policy: https://noworcry.com/privacy