Prepaid credit card usage for Google Wallet

[Athene]

Hello Smolderforge!

As you may know, Smolderforge has been dropped by PayPal.
Google Wallet has now been implemented.
For some countries, including mine, Google Wallet is not as developed as some people wished for.
The only option left for me was by getting myself a credit card to be connected to Google Wallet.
After some research I found a great solution for people who wish to donate via this new Google Wallet system without the need of a credit card; prepaid Visa cards
These so called “prepaid Visa cards” are being ordered via the internet or being bought by nearby gas stations.

How does the prepaid Visa card work?
The prepaid Visa card is a card with a personal code, your personal code.
You use it like a normal credit card but you “pre-pay” your balance. You can even withdraw money from an ATM.
Here, in the Netherlands, you pay €10,- once for the card itself and then you are able to add money to it, with a maximum of €150,- per time, €2.500,- per 12 months.
After all these proceedings you are ready to connect your card to your Google Wallet account, make sure you have got a Gmail account, simply log in with the e-mail of this Gmail account and your matching password.
Fill in your, given by e-mail, credit card number, expiration date, 3 number code, name, address etc.
Once you have followed all the steps, you have successfully connected your “prepaid credit card” to your Google Wallet account.

Feel free to ask me anything if you are experiencing problems with Google Wallet.

[Rottingham]

sweet, thank you athene for sharing this!

[Otaku]

Nice post, perhaps it deserves a sticky.
Since I assume we are staying with google wallet for a long period of time and some players are asking in game how to do it, etc

[Neo]

I really didn't undrestand how XD

[Athene]

Hello Smolderforge,

I have received several messages from people asking me to explain it, again or more detailed..
I will explain how to donate via Prepaid Visa cards;

Step 1: You wish to donate on http://www.smolderforge.com/site/donate
Step 2: In order to donate you need a Google Wallet account, this account can be created at http://www.google.com, a Gmail account counts as a Google Wallet account.
Step 3: Since Google Wallet has been implemented not long ago, it still has to be developped and is not fully working in several countries which causes you to have less options to add money to your Google Wallet account. The most common possibility is a Credit Card, some may have a Credit Card, others don't.
People who belong to the 2nd group, the ones without a Credit Card, can use this very fast and easy way of adding money to Google Wallet, by using a Prepaid Credit card.
These so called Prepaid Credit cards are sold by grocery stores, gas stations and so on.
Step 4: I am not familiair with the possibilities of different countries, but here in the Netherlands you are able to buy a card via "www.beltegoed.nl" this is a website which sells prepaid cards such as: iTunes, prepaid cash for your phone, Sim cards and so on.
If you bought a Prepaid Credit card via this way, grocery store or gas station follow the following steps.
Step 5: Once you have bought the card you will obtain a number containing 16 characters, a 3 numbered savety code, card information such as name, address and expiring date.
Keep this information somewhere save, I would recommend to screenshot it.

Example of the site which you are redirected to with the information I just wrote;


Step 6: Once you have gotten this e-mail you are able to connect your "Prepaid Credit card" to your Google Wallet account, login your Gmail account with your Gmail and your chosen password.
Once you have done this click on the icon right on top of your screen, once done, find the icon for Google Wallet, click on it.

You will get to see a survey, click on payment methods to see the methods which are available to pay with. After you clicked on payment methods you are able to add a Credit Card or Prepaid Credit Card. Fill in the given information you got before, name, address, 16 characters Credit Card number, the savety code and the expiration date of the Credit Card, prepaid cards are usually valid for 4 months.

If everything went correctly the Credit Card has been succesfully added to your Google Wallet account.

Login with your account data at http://www.smolderforge.com to donate for the character you wish for.
You will be redirected to a page of Google Wallet which asks you if you accept the payment, click on accept/go on to finish the donation. Once you have done this you will obtain a receipt in your mail.
The code which you need ingame will be added here:

Copy/paste it ingame and your code will be converted to the item/donation you bought.

Sorry if the images are fucked up.. I didn't have much time to adjust them.

I hope this has cleared some things up for you.

Succes and kind regards,


-Athene

[Cube]

Give this man mvp!

[Rottingham]

Give this man mvp!

Sure, let's give everyone mvp. Me and you, and maybe ruuren too. This rhymes so fuck you

[Athene]

It is not my intention to become a MVP, I just want to help some people if they are experiencing any trouble.

No worries =)


- Athene

[Cube]

Sure, let's give everyone mvp. Me and you, and maybe ruuren too. This rhymes so fuck you

Oh, I got the impression that this was what was going on.

[Deems]

give me mvp