LinkVault Connect

LinkVault Connect puts the products you already sell on your LinkVault page — the one link you share on Instagram, TikTok or in an email signature. You choose which products appear. Each one shows its photo, name, description and price, and tapping it takes the customer to that product on your own store, where they check out exactly as they do today. WooCommerce stays in charge. LinkVault never takes payments, never touches your orders, never holds stock and never has a checkout of its own. It shows the product and sends the customer to you. The plugin is free, and everything in it works There is no licence key, no trial, no expiry date, and no counter that runs out. Every capability this plugin contains is available the moment you activate it and connect your account. Nothing is switched off waiting to be bought, and nothing in the plugin will ever ask you to upgrade in order to use it. What it does

• Connect your WooCommerce store to your LinkVault account
• Choose which products to publish
• Prices, names, descriptions and photos stay in step with your store automatically, in the background
• Unpublish, hide, trash or delete a product in WooCommerce and it stops showing on LinkVault
• Changes to a product's variations update its price range too
• Re-sync everything by hand whenever you want
• Disconnect and reconnect at any time
• Works with the products you already have — nothing to re-enter

What it deliberately does not do

• No checkout on LinkVault
• No shipping, delivery or fulfilment
• No stock, variations or galleries
• No order or customer data leaves your store

You will need a LinkVault account The plugin publishes products to a LinkVault account, so you need one, and you will be asked to sign in and approve the connection. That is authentication — the plugin has to know which account to publish to. It is not a licence check, and this plugin does not test your account for anything before letting you use every part of it. LinkVault is a separate hosted service with its own plans and its own limits on what it will host for you. Those are described at https://linkvault.bio/pricing and are not enforced by this plugin. External service This plugin sends data to LinkVault (https://linkvault.bio), a service operated by GoCartly Limited. That is what makes it work: the products you choose are shown on your LinkVault page, so they have to reach LinkVault's servers. It talks to accounts.linkvault.bio over HTTPS, and sends:

• When you connect your account — your site's address, its WordPress and WooCommerce versions, this plugin's version, and a random identifier generated once for this installation. No personal data and no visitor data.
• When you publish or update a product — only the products you explicitly choose, and only these fields: name, short description, featured image URL, the price as your store formats it, the link back to the product, your store's currency code, and whether the product is published or hidden.
• When it re-syncs — the same product fields for the products you already chose, once a day and whenever you press Sync now.

Syncing happens in the background through WooCommerce's own task queue (Action Scheduler), never inside the request that changed the product. A shopper's checkout that updates stock does not wait for LinkVault. That list is complete. This plugin contains no code that reads an order, a customer, or a stock level. Nothing is sent when a shopper loads your store or checks out. The plugin never contacts LinkVault during a front-end request, so your shop's speed does not depend on it. LinkVault terms of use: https://linkvault.bio/terms LinkVault privacy policy: https://linkvault.bio/privacy Full details and screenshots: https://linkvault.bio/woocommerce Not affiliated with WooCommerce or WordPress LinkVault Connect is an independent integration for WooCommerce, developed by GoCartly Limited. It is not created by, affiliated with, sponsored by or endorsed by Automattic Inc., WooCommerce, or the WordPress Foundation.

1.1.0

• Fixed the price shown on LinkVault for products on sale and for variable products. WooCommerce's price includes a hidden line meant for screen readers, and it was being sent along with the price itself — so a product on sale showed “£20.00 Original price was: £20.00.£15.00Cur” and a variable product showed “£25.00 – £40.00Price range: £25.00 throu”. A product on sale now shows its current price, and a variable product shows its price range. Currency symbols are no longer sent in their encoded form.
• Added gclv_publish_product() and gclv_unpublish_product() for developers, so another plugin can publish or remove a product the same way the buttons on this screen do.

1.0.8

• Syncing now always happens in the background. A product change is queued in WooCommerce's Action Scheduler and sent from there. Previously a stock change during checkout could make the shopper's request wait for LinkVault.
• Sync now works through your products in small background batches, so large catalogues no longer time out. The result, including any products that did not go through, shows under Last sync.
• Changing a variation now updates its product on LinkVault straight away, instead of at the next daily sync.
• Deleting a product permanently (not just trashing it) now removes it from LinkVault.
• Products hidden from the shop catalogue or protected by a password are no longer shown on LinkVault.
• Remove now keeps the product on your list if LinkVault could not be reached, so you can try again.
• Temporary connection problems are retried automatically a couple of times.
• The product list has pages, so every product can be reached, not just the 50 newest.
• New extension points for developers: gclv_pre_push, gclv_product_hidden, gclv_published_changed, gclv_reconcile_before, gclv_reconcile_after, gclv_catalogue_row_actions, and the functions gclv_api_request(), gclv_connection() and gclv_published_ids().

1.0.7

• The licensing system is gone. Licence keys, activation and deactivation, the twice-daily licence check-in, the signed licence cache and the plugin's product cap have all been removed — not hidden, not disabled, removed. Nothing remains in this plugin that can withhold a feature pending payment.
• Automatic syncing, manual syncing and publishing are available to every store, and the plugin no longer limits how many products you publish.
• The self-updater has been removed. Updates come from WordPress.org like any other plugin.
• Everything this plugin owns is now prefixed gclv_ / GCLV_, and its classes live in the GoCartly\LinkVaultConnect namespace, so nothing it defines can collide with another plugin.
• Your existing settings are carried over automatically on upgrade — connection, installation identifier and published products all move to the new names. Nothing needs reconnecting.
• Uninstalling no longer makes an outbound request, because there is no longer a licence slot to release.
• Documented extension hooks (gclv_product_synced, gclv_connection_created and others) so a separate plugin can build on this one without modifying it.

1.0.6

• Documentation and packaging fixes; no functional change.

1.0.5

• Documented that products can go on a LinkVault bio page, in a LinkVault shop, or both.

1.0.4

• The plugin's "Visit plugin site" link now goes to a product page rather than the LinkVault home page.

1.0.3

• Corrected what the readme said this plugin needs.

1.0.2

• Automatic syncing became part of the free plugin rather than a licensed feature.