WordPress Upgrades using Visa

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  ciphynus · Member · May 18, 2013 at 12:21 pm

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  Kenya not appearing amongst the countries that can use Visa cards to pay for wordpress upgrades, yet I’m from Kenya, and have a Visa Card that I normally use for online purchases.

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  timethief · Member · May 18, 2013 at 5:45 pm

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  WordPress.com uses PayPal as the payment processor, and as such, can only accept payment from countries they support: https://www.paypal.com/worldwide/

  If for whatever reason, they have chosen to block payment from
  your country, you will not be able to purchase an upgrade here unless you have a source of payment outside of it.
  

  In addition to major credit cards Mastercard, VISA, American Express, Discover, and PayPal https://www.paypal.com/worldwide/ WordPress.com can accept echecks and some debit cards.

  The debit card must have a VISA or Mastercard symbol on it, and should work just like a credit card when selecting the VISA or Mastercard option on the payment form, even though it’s a debit card.

  More about echecks here:
  https://www.paypal.com/us/webapps/helpcenter/article/?solutionId=13054&topicID=11500008&m=TCI

  WordPress.com may also accept Bitcoin for payment of certain upgrades but cannot be used to purchase domains or premium themes at this time.

  Pay Another Way: Bitcoin

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  ciphynus · Member · May 19, 2013 at 5:49 pm

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  Thanks, Timethief, but last year, I used the very same credit card to purchase a wordpress upgrade for yet another of my sites. Paypal works fine with Kenya. Yesterday, I decided to use Paypal to pay for my upgrade. I got a notification that my credit card had been charged some 18 dollars, but my site has not yet got the upgrade. What could be going wrong?

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  thistimethisspace · Member · May 19, 2013 at 5:52 pm

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  I am sorry but Kenya is no longer listed as a PayPal supported country and there’s nothing that can be done about that.

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  kardotim · Member · May 20, 2013 at 3:15 am

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  The transactions has been denied and you haven’t been charged.

  In your case you might be interested in using Bitcoin instead: http://en.support.wordpress.com/bitcoin/

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  timethief · Member · May 20, 2013 at 9:25 pm

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  @kardotim
  Is what I posted above out of date? Can bitcoin now be used for domain and premium theme purchase?

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  kardotim · Member · May 21, 2013 at 5:38 am

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  No, you were right. Sorry for the confusion!

  @alphabrane You might want to try to purchase the domain elsewhere and manually redirect the domain to your WordPress.com blog. Check with the domain registrar to see if they support this.

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  ciphynus · Member · May 21, 2013 at 12:09 pm

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  Awwww. Okay, let me check with the other companies offering domains for sale. If you can, kindly send me the url to the WordPress that deals with redirection of domains purchased elsewhere to wordpress.com blogs.

  I’m still wondering why, less than an year after I purchased a similar upgrade using Visa, wordpress would suddenly stop accepting Kenyan debit cards.

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  kardotim · Member · May 21, 2013 at 12:16 pm

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  You could try to register your domain at GoDaddy. They support domain forwarding: http://support.godaddy.com/help/article/422/forwarding-or-masking-your-domain-name

  I’m still wondering why, less than an year after I purchased a similar upgrade using Visa, wordpress would suddenly stop accepting Kenyan debit cards.

  As mentioned before, we use PayPal as the payment processor. They can only accept payments from countries they currently support: https://www.paypal.com/worldwide/

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  ciphynus · Member · May 21, 2013 at 1:22 pm

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  Thanks a lot for this information, Kardotim. Let me deal with godaddy, and then get back here with some feedback. Will be in touch. :-)