About this plugin
Every high-demand sale carries the same risk: automated scripts claim your inventory in seconds, real customers miss out, and your support team spends days handling frustrated buyers. RealNode eliminates that scenario at the source.
Instead of analyzing traffic patterns and making guesses, RealNode asks a simple question that bots cannot answer: prove you are a human being, with a real device, right now. Automated scripts fail instantly. Real customers answer in a single tap.
The result is a checkout experience that feels identical to your customers — and completely closed to bots.
Three protection tiers
RN Insight — Passive audit
Runs entirely in the background. It analyzes traffic and surfaces behavioral intelligence in your operator dashboard. No user is ever challenged or interrupted.
Ideal for understanding the volume of your automated traffic before active enforcement.
RN Sentinel — Adaptive protection
Adds a trigger layer on top of passive analysis. When a session is flagged as suspicious, a verification step is requested before the order proceeds. Genuine customers complete the challenge in a single gesture — the same one they use to unlock their phone — and continue normally.
Clean sessions flow through without interruption, keeping overall friction low.
RN Vault — Zero-tolerance enforcement
Designed for flash sales, exclusive drops, and high-demand events. Hardware verification is required once per event — after that first gesture, all subsequent purchases for the same event are authenticated silently in the background. The system enforces per-user purchase quotas that are physically unbypassable.
Your customers see their remaining quota in real time on the checkout page.
Device management in My Account
On the Vault plan, the plugin adds a security management panel directly inside the WooCommerce “My Account” area. Customers can view all their hardware-attested devices, block a device that has been stolen or compromised, free a device before reselling it, and restore access using an emergency recovery code.
Built to keep your sales running
RealNode is an additive security layer. If our infrastructure becomes unreachable for any reason, the plugin steps aside automatically and your checkout continues without interruption. Your revenue path has no dependency on our uptime.
Privacy and GDPR
No biometric data is ever transmitted to RealNode. The biometric gesture (fingerprint, face scan) unlocks the device’s secure hardware chip locally and never leaves the device. Users are identified exclusively through anonymized cryptographic hashes with no personal data involved.
Requirements
- An active RealNode account at app.realnode.emkaylabs.tech/signup
- WooCommerce 6.0 or later
- Modern browsers with WebAuthn support (Chrome 67+, Firefox 60+, Safari 14+)
For customers on devices without built-in biometrics, they can complete verification by scanning a QR code with their smartphone. RN Insight and non-flagged Sentinel sessions never require this step at all.
For Developers & Security Teams
This section contains technical details for engineering and security teams.
- Behavioral Analysis (8–12Hz jitter): RN Sentinel evaluates client-side kinetic micro-interaction signals locally at the edge, classifying device environments including headless browser frameworks such as Puppeteer or Playwright.
- Cryptographic Hardware Signatures: The biometric gesture unlocks the device’s secure hardware chip (TouchID, FaceID, Windows Hello, Yubikey). RealNode receives a cryptographic signature, which is mathematically impossible to replicate in software.
- Hardware Identifiers (IDH): Cryptographic hashes derived from device characteristics. Spoofing an IDH requires acquiring real physical hardware. Even then, the FIDO2 biometric attestation requires physical access to the device’s secure hardware chip.
- Atomic Quotas: On Vault plans, atomic purchase quotas are enforced per event per IDH using a distributed in-memory cache (≤2ms response time), backed by a Supabase persistence layer with row-level security.
- Asynchronous SDK: The RealNode SDK ( api.emkaylabs.tech ) loads asynchronously on checkout and cart pages. Backend validation ( rn-v3-elite.onrender.com ) runs with a 5-second timeout; if RealNode does not respond in time, checkout completes normally.
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