{"id":46,"date":"2016-04-01T12:50:25","date_gmt":"2016-04-01T10:50:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/straton.co.za\/pre-paid\/?p=46"},"modified":"2016-04-01T12:50:25","modified_gmt":"2016-04-01T10:50:25","slug":"solving-the-offline-prepaid-meter-purchase-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/straton.co.za\/pre-paid\/solving-the-offline-prepaid-meter-purchase-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"Solving the offline prepaid meter purchase problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Africans are an innovative bunch&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Load shedding: install Solar Power<\/li>\n<li>Electricity vending: prepaid from shops or online<\/li>\n<li>Online prepaid account down: no problem Power.Plus will keep trying even after you close your browser or App.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This local innovation seems to have come about from the vagaries of the Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority &#8211; it appears to go offline at the most critical times when people are attempting to buy prepaid electricity after waiting in a long queue. It&#8217;s not uncommon to hop from one shop to another when ZESA the system or some it&#8217;s super agents (Agribank, CBZ, Netone, ZB Bank etc) are offline.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Power.Plus solves the problem elegantly:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>You register an account with them and add your ZESA meter number.<\/li>\n<li>When you buy electricity, Power.Plus tries to complete the transaction immediately.<\/li>\n<li>If it finds the ZESA system is down, it notifies you, queues the transaction and keeps trying at regular intervals in the background.<\/li>\n<li>In the meantime you can close the site and go do other things.<\/li>\n<li>Eventually when the ZESA systems comes online and Power.Plus completes the transactions, it sends the recharge token number via SMS.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dQOgUxDyrH0\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africans are an innovative bunch&#8230; Load shedding: install Solar Power Electricity vending: prepaid from shops or online Online prepaid account down: no problem Power.Plus will keep trying even after you close your browser or App. This local innovation seems to have come about from the vagaries of the Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority &#8211; it appears [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","_glsr_average":0,"_glsr_ranking":0,"_glsr_reviews":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[15,14],"class_list":["post-46","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-news","tag-power-plus","tag-zesa","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/straton.co.za\/pre-paid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/straton.co.za\/pre-paid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/straton.co.za\/pre-paid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/straton.co.za\/pre-paid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/straton.co.za\/pre-paid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/straton.co.za\/pre-paid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47,"href":"https:\/\/straton.co.za\/pre-paid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions\/47"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/straton.co.za\/pre-paid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/straton.co.za\/pre-paid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/straton.co.za\/pre-paid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}