How to Solution Here

One of the major frustrations on purchasing online is that you have a good credit card but the merchant processing company refuses to process the purchase. You are left stranded not knowing if your transaction gets through or otherwise. You get irritating messages like:

” You have completed your purchases and we will inform you on the outcome of the purchase.” They never did.

Basically, the back end on this processing company has discovered an issue with your transaction but they will NOT tell you about it.

These could be one of the problems they may have:

1) Your location - you may not be based in USA, and some processing companies “blacklist” certain countries

2) Certain credit cards are blacklisted - most don’t realise it, usually from these blacklisted countries.

3) They say your credit card does not tally with the address - I find this to be silly as most people change their residence from time to time . This is usually their standard answer to you

4)They have a system glitch that they are not telling you

5) Zip code, they really like zip codes, so if you are not staying in USA, make sure you put in your actual location (country) of purchase and this zip code thingy will disappear.

6) Emails- certain merchants don’t like “free” emails account so change to one which is paying. Some doesn’t like accounts like hotmail etc at one stage.

So what can you do to successfully complete your purchase?

a) Make sure that you do a screen capture at every page when you do an online purchase, you will

forget what you key in at the second page. Some merchants have countless pages to fill in.

b) Make sure that you contact the main supplier immediately, and preferably call their 1800 line if you are overseas, use skpye.

c)Nowadays major supplier outsourced their processing to third parties and calling their helpdesk is usually not very fruitful, you just need them to give you a ticket number and also your incomplete order number. Then ask them for the actual telephone number of the third party processing company.

d) Contact this third party processing company and tell them to do a “Manual overwrite” on their system for your order number that was given to you by the merchant. This works all the time, even if you are purchasing from outside of the USA.

Enjoy and have a happy experience the next time round you shop on line. Let me know if you have other solutions that will be useful to the readers who come here.

The only one step you need is to put in this line everytime you want to include adsense within your post:

[Ad#adname] where your adname can be anything you name, for exampe [Ad#myad], [Ad#adsense]…

This assumes that you have already installed the Adsense Manager (plugin) for Wordpress applications.

Refer to my previous posting if you do not know how to use the adsense manager.

If you want a fast and easy method to use wordpress’ adsense manager, then follow these guidelines :

Step 1: Activate the plugin and then go to Manage –>Ad Units

Step2: Go to adsense Google and create the code that you want and copy it here according to the format

Step 3:Step 3: Save the code

You have to create the ad name (use one that makes sense to you) and you may use the default settings or you may also change the dimension instead of using the default .

For example if the dimension needs to be changed, and instead of going back to google adsense to create the new code, wordpress adsense manager allows you to change it seamlessly. eg 160 length –> change to 120 length for a vertical banner

Step 4: What to do with this code ? You Add this code into the sidebar for example, activate the sidebar widget for this code, if you have a widget in your design menu.

 Navigate to Design–>Widget

Step 5: Once activated, see that it is on the sidebar

However, you may also try out the various parameters and options for defaults to suit your webpage.

That’s it, this is a very brief methodology for using adsense manager. Play around with it and you can even

use [Ad#name of your ad] and stick that into your html post with wordpress.