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If your error message showed 'failed', it looks like you should contact Ivacy since the error message for wrong coupon code is 'Coupon is not valid'. Try their live chat. For me they were pretty responsive and sorted out my problem in minutes.
For those interested: stacksocial reacted quickly but only with a "we will help you soon" message.
With Ivacy I had more luck. Following @sanvit 's advice I looked for the chat and asked for help. The problem was that a name must not contain dots or dashes (can be forgiven) and that a password can be max. 12 chars/digits!!! (can not be forgiven).
Frankly, my first impression of Ivacy is very negative. But maybe that changes once I use their VPN service.
Oh, and the stacksocial product I chose was 39.99 $ for a lifetime subscription incl. a NAT firewall. What's probably more interesting though is that the Ivacy subscription also includes a 5 year free "Port Forwarding". The product is described as "basic lifetime" and is supposed to provide access to "450+ servers in 100+ locations in 50+ countries" for up to 5 devices.
@jsg iirc you can change the password in their WHMCS. I didn't know about the free port forwarding. Thanks for the info
p.s. their android app is horrible. I recommend manually setting up via pptp or openvpn
Agree. On Android go for manual setup. Their app is buggy.
@jsg never had issues redeeming a stacksocial code but glas it worked out. Yeah, stacksocial support is kinda lame. Ivacy live chat is cool however. Didn't know that port forwarding is included (isn't for my lifetime plan though (iirc; I don't have the NAT firewall included either). Enjoy Ivacy
Any questions just ask me or @sanvit
I doubt that I can can enter a longer password there and frankly I don't feeling like making more experiments.
It wouldn't come to my mind anyway to use an app instead of setting it up the old way.
To make your day even worse, actually you can use DN40 coupon to get it lifetime for $24
Frankly, I cared for neither. It just happened to be in the available cheap bundle and I thought I'd expressely mention it here because some are probably interested in port forwarding (or the NAT).
As long as you don't do anything of great significance while on the VPN and choose a strong 12 digit pw, I guess you could live with that. Just remember there are people using "password" and "1234567"
Yeah, and I'm also one of the idiots who paid full price
Sure, mister hacker, but you don't know which one I used
That doesn't make my day bad at all. From what I see 40$ for a lifetime subscription with a halfway decent VPN provider is an excellent deal.
At first I was thinking and thinking again about @Ympker 's original FastestVpn deal but there some point I disliked and so I looked at the Ivacy deal. And come on, I've payed more than 40$ for a year with comparable VPN providers, so paying 40$ for lifetime (even if it lasts only 5 years) is an excellent deal in my view. And I didn't look for the cheapest deal but for the best one ($ vs service).
Btw. I just payed 36$ but that was due to a "welcome" rebate I got as a new stacksocial user.
Welcome to the Ivacy family. We have cookies
Yes, absolutely. It's more of a "religious" issue for me (keep in mind, my field is security) and couldn't believe that a VPN provider would be so
idiolimited in the 21. century.Let me guess. You are a clever cat and sneaky, hence your password is neither of the two but ... tada ... "pass4567" ...
How cunning! nobody will ever guess that!
Kinda sad I didn't think of that myself
But now it's my password and mine alone 
@jsg If only 12 digits make you feel uncomfortable, you can be happy that you dont't work at the place where I used to work. Dead-simple passwords written post-its pinned to the monitor.
You worked at a bank? *g
Probably at McAfee
Close enough :¢
I thought you were a university student? Was it an internship?
Giving a look at ivacy. Most of their IPs are registered to Secure Internet LLC which is based in Texas, https://ipinfo.io/AS394087 - Seems like the front company is in SG (tax reasons?) but not much else is there. Anyway for 24$ it seems decent (thanks @NanoG6!).
Not sure what to think about their Nat firewall stuff, they pretend that it's possible to enable a redirect for port 80 or any other port. I don't see how that's supposed to be possible as IPs are shared... Any hints?
Nah, I can still work part-time
University students need to pay for rent etc as well
I don't use these "features" at all so meh. Can't say anything about that.
Some linux ISOs do like port forwarding
From their WHMCS it's possible to set a password up to 20 chars.
hmmm ...?
as per the ivacy "change password" page:
I was talking about the password field on the redeem page. There max len is 12 (according to Ivacy support).
indeed, the throwaway temporary password I used for that step was less than 12 characters.
(I've had the experience of receiving on-boarding emails containing an otherwise strong password I'd set, so now tend to start with a throwaway to be changed after the first login ...)
Ended going with the $24 Ivacy deal. Just disappointed that are not a lot of servers using OpenVPN. Also, the files I download gave me an AUTH failed error, even tough both fields are alright.
Stacksocial wouldn't let me use DN40 to get it for 24$ when I tried ordering for my friend (as I already have it). Did you use another coupon?
That coupon only works on the Ivacy + NAT firewall bundle as far as I'm aware.
https://stacksocial.com/sales/ivacy-vpn-lifetime-subscription-5