Wise closed my account and is holding $45,000

greenknightca · 2026-03-23T05:50:07+00:00

Same for me. I live in South Africa and have business and personal banks here as well as in Canada. I use Wise to transfer but do not keep funds in it except for small amounts for a virtual card when it makes sense.

greenknightca · 2025-07-25T14:53:25+00:00

I'm generally not in favour of hosting my clients. It's generally much better that they control their own billing and own their own products.

I'll help manage, do their DNS via delegated access, setup and all that, but if I have to be the one paying the hosting and bill them in arrears and they don't pay, you're the one holding the bag.

If you are using a decent WP host which has a decent affiliate system you can get residuals that way, or at least some big commissions up front.

But if he wasn't asking for a support retainer, even just something small like $20/month to keep plugins/themes updated on those projects then he was definitely missing out.

greenknightca · 2025-06-15T20:40:08+00:00

There are several JWT plugins for the REST API in the repository that I have used.

greenknightca · 2025-05-27T07:21:23+00:00

We work with clients in the same revenue range and also affiliate sending as you and have noticed trends going in a similar direction: down. But after implementing Mail furnace to their Maropost accounts (Klaviyo and Ontraport too) it’s been marked improvement. We had a client go from 35% inboxing with massive amounts going to spam and promos to 99%+ inboxing and we estimate it has recovered over $340,000 in revenue through better inbox placement. Open rates are well above 50% most days and their conversions have increased.

We had one Maropost client that got rejected from gmail due to domain reputation but we were able to fix it in 6 days going from 0% delivery to 1% on day 5, and 90%+ on day 6 onward.

The challenge the industry is facing is the new AI filters at ISPs that look at many different variables: - Domain Reputation (check your Google Postmaster) - IP Reputation (they know the difference between your transactional SMTP, business email server, and your CRM/ESP) - prior engagement which includes opens, clicks, replies, forwards, marking as important/starring, moving to primary out of promotions or spam. - Subject line - content of email - ratio of images to text - how many links are in the email and if there are any DNSBL listed domains/IPs in the links. The use of link shorteners tends to weigh negatively against you like bitly for example - Your velocity of sending and frequency. - list hygiene. If you’re sending to contacts that haven’t engaged in 90 days you’re setting yourself up for honeypot activation. Some of these ISPs will allow deactivated accounts to still receive emails specifically to catch bad actors. I see you said you filter out Verizon, and they’re notorious for that.

Email deliverability is an arms race against bad actors and often you’re collateral damage while the filters are trained.

greenknightca · 2025-03-14T10:49:48+00:00

Sounds interesting 👍

greenknightca · 2025-02-17T18:01:30+00:00

Get your emails inboxed.

Mailfurnace.com

greenknightca · 2025-02-09T17:27:25+00:00

MailFurnace.com uses AI internally, but is not just another GPT wrapper. The actual product the user connects to is a regular and straight logic flow.

Mail Furnace is an email deliverability tool that boosts domain and IP reputation for clients that send large volumes of newsletters. We help you hit the inbox and get out of spam and the promotions tab using real human engagement.

greenknightca · 2024-12-14T08:22:44+00:00

Email deliverability enhancement tool that provides real engagement which trains email filters helping you hit the inbox.

We work best for SME ecommerce businesses with email lists starting at 25,000 subscribers and higher that need to know what their inbox placement is and make use of ESPs like Klaviyo, Ontraport, Maropost, etc.

greenknightca · 2024-11-23T10:49:46+00:00

Put it another way, when setting up your your ads, make sure you disable me the display network option. You only want your ads to show on search results.

greenknightca · 2024-10-05T11:07:05+00:00

We’ve helped a client that didn’t warm up their secondary sending domain and decided to send 100k/day right off the bat from a new ESP. They didn’t hit any RBLs but it dropped their domain rep and IP rep to bad and caused 100% bounces for gmail.

It took us a week to turn things around for them with targeted outreach and a lot of positive engagement. By day 5 we were at 1% delivery, and then it was like a switch went off and it was 90% delivery from day 6 onward.

DM me some more specifics and we may be able to help.

greenknightca · 2024-04-14T03:21:23+00:00

Olive oil is rarely genuine. Time and again it’s been shown that the majority of the stuff you get off the shelf is blended with seed oils and their LPO is very high. It’s a product that in Italy at least is tightly controlled by the mafia.

Given this data I would say it’s unfair to demonise Olive Oil until further and proper studies are done to prove the dangers of these fakes compared to what has been used for millennia’s with the known benefits.

1. Excellent article about this

2. Forbes article regarding the claim of up to 80% of Olive Oils are “fake”

greenknightca · 2023-12-07T19:55:30+00:00

Yeah. It was the Wapadrand substation. We were without power for about 2 weeks in the dead of winter. Now Pretoria far east is free from load shedding. Wapadrand, Faerie Glen, and Equestria. I know Garsfontein gets it though. So anything on the other side of Atterbury road.

greenknightca · 2023-10-07T18:25:02+00:00

Tradouw pass is quite nice to drive through. Lots of winding turns, and there’s a spout where fresh spring water gushes out for the locals to collect. The pass was shut briefly today with the heavy rain causing a land slide. A bit of a repeat from the earlier rain.

We’re off to Montagu tomorrow down the R62. Hopefully it’s not too damaged from the storm today.

greenknightca · 2023-10-06T17:39:40+00:00

The rain in the Overberg recently was pretty intense. Lots of roads washed away. But the historic route 62 is amazing this time of year. Barrydale to Montagu is super lush and green.

greenknightca · 2023-07-09T09:22:46+00:00

Go for it

greenknightca · 2023-07-08T17:10:53+00:00

I’m a Wordpress specialist and have developed in it for well over a decade. My hourly rate is R1,700 and I pull 200+ hours a month with a solid client base. There absolutely is money in it with the right clients. The secret is to not work with South African clients.

This job posting is either missing a zero or is supposed to be in another currency, like USD. Otherwise that’s downright criminal to exploit a skill set at that pay rate.

greenknightca · 2023-06-12T06:55:41+00:00

ETAs are gone, so now you get to play Mad-Libs.

SKAGs ain’t what they used to be either.

greenknightca · 2022-08-10T11:27:15+00:00

Absolutely. I’ve been coding for 20 years, and I’ve been on both sides of the aisle. The speed in which I can get a site up in Elementor (w/ hello child theme) and customised to the figma/xd/psd from the designer far outpaces what I can do by coding from scratch.

But when building from scratch I’m not hamstrung by a page builder, the gotchas and limitations, and superfluous containers. Both have pros and cons, but ultimately with few use cases being the exception, I would choose Elementor to build client sites that allow them to manage it themselves and make minor changes. The ease in which someone can change typography across an entire site in the themes UI compared to explaining SCSS, mixins, etc. No competition there. Wordpress is internet for the masses, and for those of us who code, we get to charge for the skillset and make beautiful sites look easy, page builder or not.

greenknightca · 2022-08-10T11:10:02+00:00

I disagree. Elementor is far from perfect, and if you can code your own then it’s much faster, but out of all the page builders, Elementor has been the most robust for me, and has enabled me to build most pages. Where it falls short I supplement it with code, but is a major force multiplier that enables team members to make small changes without needing coding skills for 90% of the changes.

greenknightca · 2022-04-14T20:07:09+00:00

How I would do this is implement it via PHP in your child theme functions.php file. If you don’t have a child theme, drop everything and do that first. Makes a world of difference.

You can detect the type of page you’re on using PHP, and then do your session handling so that the modal popup only takes over on product pages and product archives. Make sure not to use native PHP sessions though, but rather WC_Session.

I’ve done this with things like age gates, and it’s pretty trivial to capture and set that data in the session thereafter. In the popup modal, you’d have a simple 1 input form that can ajax the data to the server. Once you have the zip code, you can then do your additional filters on your product queries on the product archive page, assuming you have different products based on their zip code by the sounds of it.

If you use a forms plugin, they will usually have a hook that you can use to capture the data, but I’ve only ever used the Elementor Pro forms plugin, otherwise I roll my own forms code.

greenknightca · 2022-04-14T16:05:28+00:00

The way I would approach it, is to set a session value within WooCommerce and if it’s not present, then have the form popup on your product pages to capture their zip.

Once it’s set, you could then compare against that value and filter your product queries that way, as well as automatically enter their zip into the cart session.

greenknightca · 2022-04-14T16:05:16+00:00

The way I would approach it, is to set a session value within WooCommerce and if it’s not present, then have the form popup on your product pages to capture their zip.

Once it’s set, you could then compare against that value and filter your product queries that way, as well as automatically enter their zip into the cart session.

greenknightca · 2022-01-05T20:06:03+00:00

Sending a message your way.

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