generated: '2026-08-13'
method: searched
source: live probes of hownd.com, hownd.app, trust.hownd.com, partner-api.hownd.com and the LocBoxLabs GitHub organization
note: >-
  Recorded absences, not gaps. Hownd publishes no versioning policy, no
  deprecation policy, no SLA and no changelog for either its merchant platform
  or its Partner API, and its status page has been switched off. Each of those is
  stated here with the probe that established it.
versioning:
  scheme: none-published
  current: null
  docs: null
  note: >-
    The Partner API base URL is the bare host https://partner-api.hownd.com with
    no version segment. A /v1/ probe returned 404. No version header or date
    train is documented.
deprecation:
  policy_url: null
  policy_published: false
  sunset_header: unknown
  note: >-
    No deprecation or sunset policy is published, and RFC 8594 Sunset/Deprecation
    header support could not be observed because the API is credential-gated. No
    Deprecation pointer is emitted.
sla:
  url: null
  uptime_target: null
  published: false
status_page:
  url: null
  published: false
  probed: https://trust.hownd.com/
  probe_result: >-
    trust.hownd.com resolves to Atlassian Statuspage
    (4zx0l1s2xkdz.stspg-customer.com), 302s to https://hownd.statuspage.io/, and
    that page renders "Hownd Status - Page Inactive". The company provisioned a
    status page and then deactivated it, so there is no operational status
    surface today. No StatusPage pointer is emitted - a deactivated page is an
    absence, not a presence.
changelog:
  url: null
  published: false
  note: >-
    No product changelog, release-notes page or API version history exists on
    hownd.com, hownd.app or in the LocBoxLabs GitHub organization.
deprecated_operations: []
brand_lifecycle:
  note: >-
    The company has run three brands over one codebase - LocBox, then FetchRev,
    now Hownd. All three properties are still live: locbox.com 301s to
    fetchrev.com; fetchrev.com remains a separate WordPress marketing site with
    its own terms, privacy policy and knowledge base; hownd.com is the current
    marketing site. The merchant application also exists twice, as the legacy
    Rails app at app.locbox.com and the current Nuxt app at hownd.app. Nothing
    on any property declares which of the older surfaces is deprecated.
  observed:
  - {url: 'https://locbox.com/', http_status: 200, final: 'https://fetchrev.com/'}
  - {url: 'https://fetchrev.com/', http_status: 200}
  - {url: 'https://app.locbox.com/', http_status: 200, final: 'https://app.locbox.com/en/sign_in'}
  - {url: 'https://hownd.app/', http_status: 200}
staleness_signals:
- {signal: 'Partner API example repository last commit', value: '2022-07-20'}
- {signal: 'only first-party npm package last published', value: '2018-10-17'}
- {signal: 'status page state', value: 'inactive'}
- {signal: 'FetchRev blog host why.fetchrev.com/blog', value: '404 - the Blog pointer previously recorded for this provider is dead'}
x-evidence:
- {url: 'https://trust.hownd.com/', http_status: 302, fetched: '2026-08-13'}
- {url: 'https://hownd.statuspage.io/', http_status: 200, fetched: '2026-08-13', note: 'Page Inactive'}
- {url: 'https://why.fetchrev.com/blog', http_status: 404, fetched: '2026-08-13'}
- {url: 'https://locbox.com/', http_status: 200, fetched: '2026-08-13'}