generated: '2026-09-04'
method: searched
source: >-
  Live host probes 2026-09-04 plus third-party affiliate documentation for the
  retired Groupon Partner Network.
description: >-
  Groupon publishes no versioning policy, no deprecation policy, no Sunset /
  Deprecation header contract (RFC 8594), no SLA and no status page that could be
  found. What it HAS done is retire a whole API programme, and that is the one
  hard lifecycle fact on record here.
status_page:
  published: false
  probed:
    - url: https://status.groupon.com/
      http_status: 0
      note: Host does not resolve to a reachable service.
      fetched: '2026-09-04'
  note: No status or uptime page was found on any Groupon host.
deprecation_policy:
  published: false
  note: >-
    No deprecation or sunset policy document was found. Deliberately NOT claimed:
    the retirement recorded below is a single observed event, not a published
    policy, and no Deprecation pointer is emitted from it.
sunset_headers:
  rfc8594: false
  observed: []
  note: No Sunset or Deprecation header on any observed response.
sla:
  published: false
versioning:
  scheme: path
  note: Legacy paths are /v2/-prefixed; no published version policy.
retirements:
  - name: Groupon Partner Network (GPN) reporting APIs
    host: partner-api.groupon.com
    apis:
      - Order API
      - Deal API
      - Division API
      - Transaction API
      - Taxonomy API
      - Campaign API
      - Ledger API
      - Attribution Validation
    status: retired
    retired_on: '2022-06-15'
    successor: >-
      Groupon affiliate distribution moved to CJ Affiliate; there is no
      Groupon-hosted replacement for these reporting endpoints.
    evidence:
      - url: https://partner-api.groupon.com/
        http_status: 522
        fetched: '2026-09-04'
        note: >-
          Cloudflare 522, origin unreachable. The DNS record still resolves
          (104.18.12.36 / 104.18.13.36) and the edge still answers, so the
          hostname is live while the service behind it is gone — a dangling
          surface, not a clean shutdown.
      - url: https://partner-api.groupon.com/help/reporting-version-2-order-api
        http_status: 522
        fetched: '2026-09-04'
      - url: https://strackr.com/docs/groupon
        http_status: 200
        fetched: '2026-09-04'
        note: >-
          Third-party affiliate-platform documentation, quoted verbatim: "Groupon
          Partner Network permanently closed on June 15, 2022, Groupon is now
          available on CJ Affiliate." Cited because Groupon's own GPN help pages
          are no longer served and no first-party retirement notice could be
          reached.
        first_party: false
current_surfaces:
  - name: Groupon API gateway
    host: api.groupon.com
    status: live-gated
    evidence:
      url: https://api.groupon.com/v2/deals.json
      http_status: 401
      fetched: '2026-09-04'
  - name: Groupon Developer Platform 2.0 (partner integrations)
    host: www.groupon.com/developers
    status: live-unreadable
    evidence:
      url: https://www.groupon.com/developers
      http_status: 403
      fetched: '2026-09-04'
      note: Cloudflare managed bot challenge; page is served to browsers, not to machines.