diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 60422881..0cd1859c 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -50,6 +50,7 @@ The table below identifies the services this tool supports and some example serv
 | [Matrix](https://github.com/caronc/apprise/wiki/Notify_matrix) | matrix:// or matrixs://  | (TCP) 80 or 443 | matrix://hostname<br />matrix://user@hostname<br />matrixs://user:pass@hostname:port/#room_alias<br />matrixs://user:pass@hostname:port/!room_id<br />matrixs://user:pass@hostname:port/#room_alias/!room_id/#room2<br />matrixs://token@hostname:port/?webhook=matrix<br />matrix://user:token@hostname/?webhook=slack&format=markdown
 | [Mattermost](https://github.com/caronc/apprise/wiki/Notify_mattermost) | mmost://  | (TCP) 8065 | mmost://hostname/authkey<br />mmost://hostname:80/authkey<br />mmost://user@hostname:80/authkey<br />mmost://hostname/authkey?channel=channel<br />mmosts://hostname/authkey<br />mmosts://user@hostname/authkey<br />
 | [Microsoft Teams](https://github.com/caronc/apprise/wiki/Notify_msteams) | msteams://  | (TCP) 443   | msteams://TokenA/TokenB/TokenC/
+| [NextCloud](https://github.com/caronc/apprise/wiki/Notify_nextcloud) | ncloud:// or nclouds:// | (TCP) 80 or 443 | ncloud://adminuser:pass@host/User<br/>nclouds://adminuser:pass@host/User1/User2/UserN
 | [Notica](https://github.com/caronc/apprise/wiki/Notify_notica) | notica://  | (TCP) 443   | notica://Token/
 | [Notifico](https://github.com/caronc/apprise/wiki/Notify_notifico) | notifico://  | (TCP) 443   | notifico://ProjectID/MessageHook/
 | [Prowl](https://github.com/caronc/apprise/wiki/Notify_prowl) | prowl://   | (TCP) 443    | prowl://apikey<br />prowl://apikey/providerkey
diff --git a/apprise/plugins/NotifyNextCloud.py b/apprise/plugins/NotifyNextCloud.py
index e62bc18c..d4e4f664 100644
--- a/apprise/plugins/NotifyNextCloud.py
+++ b/apprise/plugins/NotifyNextCloud.py
@@ -43,10 +43,10 @@ class NotifyNextCloud(NotifyBase):
     service_url = 'https://github.com/nextcloud/notifications'
 
     # Insecure protocol (for those self hosted requests)
-    protocol = 'nextcloud'
+    protocol = 'ncloud'
 
     # The default protocol (this is secure for notica)
-    secure_protocol = 'nextclouds'
+    secure_protocol = 'nclouds'
 
     # A URL that takes you to the setup/help of the specific protocol
     setup_url = 'https://github.com/caronc/apprise/wiki/Notify_nextcloud'
@@ -89,13 +89,11 @@ class NotifyNextCloud(NotifyBase):
         'user': {
             'name': _('Username'),
             'type': 'string',
-            'required': True,
         },
         'password': {
             'name': _('Password'),
             'type': 'string',
             'private': True,
-            'required': True,
         },
         'target_user': {
             'name': _('Target User'),
@@ -162,8 +160,9 @@ class NotifyNextCloud(NotifyBase):
             else:
                 payload['shortMessage'] = body
 
-            # Auth is used for SELFHOSTED queries
-            auth = (self.user, self.password)
+            auth = None
+            if self.user:
+                auth = (self.user, self.password)
 
             notify_url = self.notify_url.format(
                 schema='https' if self.secure else 'http',
@@ -182,7 +181,7 @@ class NotifyNextCloud(NotifyBase):
 
             try:
                 r = requests.post(
-                    notify_url.format(token=self.token),
+                    notify_url,
                     data=payload,
                     headers=headers,
                     auth=auth,
@@ -238,11 +237,18 @@ class NotifyNextCloud(NotifyBase):
         # Append our headers into our args
         args.update({'+{}'.format(k): v for k, v in self.headers.items()})
 
-        auth = '{user}:{password}@'.format(
-            user=NotifyNextCloud.quote(self.user, safe=''),
-            password=self.pprint(
-                self.password, privacy, mode=PrivacyMode.Secret, safe=''),
-        )
+        # Determine Authentication
+        auth = ''
+        if self.user and self.password:
+            auth = '{user}:{password}@'.format(
+                user=NotifyNextCloud.quote(self.user, safe=''),
+                password=self.pprint(
+                    self.password, privacy, mode=PrivacyMode.Secret, safe=''),
+            )
+        elif self.user:
+            auth = '{user}@'.format(
+                user=NotifyNextCloud.quote(self.user, safe=''),
+            )
 
         default_port = 443 if self.secure else 80
 
@@ -254,8 +260,6 @@ class NotifyNextCloud(NotifyBase):
                    hostname=NotifyNextCloud.quote(self.host, safe=''),
                    port='' if self.port is None or self.port == default_port
                         else ':{}'.format(self.port),
-                   fullpath=NotifyNextCloud.quote(
-                       self.fullpath, safe='/'),
                    targets='/'.join([NotifyNextCloud.quote(x)
                                      for x in self.targets]),
                    args=NotifyNextCloud.urlencode(args),
@@ -268,7 +272,8 @@ class NotifyNextCloud(NotifyBase):
         us to substantiate this object.
 
         """
-        results = NotifyBase.parse_url(url, verify_host=False)
+
+        results = NotifyBase.parse_url(url)
         if not results:
             # We're done early as we couldn't load the results
             return results
diff --git a/packaging/redhat/python-apprise.spec b/packaging/redhat/python-apprise.spec
index 200b5098..7a91da4a 100644
--- a/packaging/redhat/python-apprise.spec
+++ b/packaging/redhat/python-apprise.spec
@@ -49,10 +49,11 @@ it easy to access:
 
 Boxcar, ClickSend, Discord, E-Mail, Emby, Faast, Flock, Gitter, Gotify, Growl,
 IFTTT, Join, KODI, Kumulos, Mailgun, MatterMost, Matrix, Microsoft Windows
-Notifications, Microsoft Teams, MessageBird, MSG91, Nexmo, Notica, Notifico,
-Notify MyAndroid, Prowl, Pushalot, PushBullet, Pushjet, Pushover, PushSafer,
-Rocket.Chat, SendGrid, SimplePush, Slack, Super Toasty, Stride, Syslog,
-Techulus Push, Telegram, Twilio, Twitter, Twist, XBMC, XMPP, Webex Teams}
+Notifications, Microsoft Teams, MessageBird, MSG91, Nexmo, NextCloud, Notica,
+Notifico, Notify MyAndroid, Prowl, Pushalot, PushBullet, Pushjet, Pushover,
+PushSafer, Rocket.Chat, SendGrid, SimplePush, Slack, Super Toasty, Stride,
+Syslog, Techulus Push, Telegram, Twilio, Twitter, Twist, XBMC, XMPP,
+Webex Teams}
 
 Name:           python-%{pypi_name}
 Version:        0.8.2
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index e7accfd5..3c3c933a 100755
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -72,10 +72,10 @@ setup(
     keywords='Push Notifications Alerts Email AWS SNS Boxcar ClickSend '
         'Discord Dbus Emby Faast Flock Gitter Gnome Gotify Growl IFTTT Join '
         'KODI Kumulos Mailgun Matrix Mattermost MessageBird MSG91 Nexmo '
-        'Notica, Notifico Prowl PushBullet Pushjet Pushed Pushover PushSafer '
-        'Rocket.Chat Ryver SendGrid SimplePush Slack Stride Syslog Techulus '
-        'Push Telegram Twilio Twist Twitter XBMC Microsoft MSTeams Windows '
-        'Webex CLI API',
+        'NextCloud Notica, Notifico Prowl PushBullet Pushjet Pushed Pushover '
+        'PushSafer Rocket.Chat Ryver SendGrid SimplePush Slack Stride Syslog '
+        'Techulus Push Telegram Twilio Twist Twitter XBMC Microsoft MSTeams '
+        'Windows Webex CLI API',
     author='Chris Caron',
     author_email='lead2gold@gmail.com',
     packages=find_packages(),
diff --git a/test/test_rest_plugins.py b/test/test_rest_plugins.py
index 19acd5f9..4e3e189c 100644
--- a/test/test_rest_plugins.py
+++ b/test/test_rest_plugins.py
@@ -1737,6 +1737,72 @@ TEST_URLS = (
         'test_requests_exceptions': True,
     }),
 
+    ##################################
+    # NotifyNextCloud
+    ##################################
+    ('ncloud://:@/', {
+        'instance': None,
+    }),
+    ('ncloud://', {
+        'instance': None,
+    }),
+    ('nclouds://', {
+        # No hostname
+        'instance': None,
+    }),
+    ('ncloud://localhost', {
+        # No user specified
+        'instance': TypeError,
+    }),
+    ('ncloud://localhost/admin', {
+        'instance': plugins.NotifyNextCloud,
+    }),
+    ('ncloud://user@localhost/admin', {
+        'instance': plugins.NotifyNextCloud,
+    }),
+    ('ncloud://user@localhost?to=user1,user2', {
+        'instance': plugins.NotifyNextCloud,
+    }),
+    ('ncloud://user:pass@localhost/user1/user2', {
+        'instance': plugins.NotifyNextCloud,
+
+        # Our expected url(privacy=True) startswith() response:
+        'privacy_url': 'ncloud://user:****@localhost/user1/user2',
+    }),
+    ('ncloud://user:pass@localhost:8080/admin', {
+        'instance': plugins.NotifyNextCloud,
+    }),
+    ('nclouds://user:pass@localhost/admin', {
+        'instance': plugins.NotifyNextCloud,
+
+        # Our expected url(privacy=True) startswith() response:
+        'privacy_url': 'nclouds://user:****@localhost/admin',
+    }),
+    ('nclouds://user:pass@localhost:8080/admin/', {
+        'instance': plugins.NotifyNextCloud,
+    }),
+    ('ncloud://localhost:8080/admin?-HeaderKey=HeaderValue', {
+        'instance': plugins.NotifyNextCloud,
+    }),
+    ('ncloud://user:pass@localhost:8081/admin', {
+        'instance': plugins.NotifyNextCloud,
+        # force a failure
+        'response': False,
+        'requests_response_code': requests.codes.internal_server_error,
+    }),
+    ('ncloud://user:pass@localhost:8082/admin', {
+        'instance': plugins.NotifyNextCloud,
+        # throw a bizzare code forcing us to fail to look it up
+        'response': False,
+        'requests_response_code': 999,
+    }),
+    ('ncloud://user:pass@localhost:8083/user1/user2/user3', {
+        'instance': plugins.NotifyNextCloud,
+        # Throws a series of connection and transfer exceptions when this flag
+        # is set and tests that we gracfully handle them
+        'test_requests_exceptions': True,
+    }),
+
     ##################################
     # NotifyProwl
     ##################################