My problem was in testing I made no real financial transactions. This had to do with woocommerce integration. This caused woocommerce to cancel the order on its end. When I set the wpadverts ad to “published” this caused wpadverts to behave unexpectedly, publishing the one ad, but not registering the package in the database. Since this is not the way wpadverts was designed to function I say this is resolved.
The solution was to test it by setting the order to “completed” in woocommerce. Thanks.
