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SMS Payments

We offer you a wide range of payment options for any of your services. You can choose payment methods that fit your services best: one-time payment, subscription services, Pay-per-Click service (association of subscriber's mobile phone number with the account on client’s website to simplify the subsequent payments); mobile commerce etc.

All these services are powered by one technological platform and use one general solution: SMS-Gate.

    SMS payments via SMS Online platform offer you some essential advantages, such as:
  • Wide range of short codes that can be used either as dedicated lines or as a part of our affiliate program
  • Direct connections to mobile network carriers
  • Russia and CIS uniform short codes, available for all mobile network operators
  • Worldwide coverage, enabling services promotion to subscribers in different countries
  • Detailed online stats for all the services
  • Intelligent system of fraudulent messages prevention
  • Misprinted messages correction system, allowing to correct all the common misprints in incoming messages; this allows to increase our client’s profit for up to 25-30%
  • 24/7 technical support for clients and subscribers

You will find more detailed information on all the services below.

Subscription-Based Services

Subscription-based services enable you to use periodical payments. Unlike single billing payments, subscriptions are suited best for renovated services: providing access to premium content for a certain time, periodic delivery of some kind of information etc.

Billing amounts could be set depending on each service’s features: daily, weekly, monthly billing (along with some other periods, e.g. once each 3 days, 5 days, 10 days etc.).

Subscription is initiated by filling up a web-form on your website, or by sending message to a short code.

To install subscription-based services you can use our API. In this case subscriptions are implemented as a single web-form for all the mobile network operators (web-form is also provided by SMS Online).

Alternatively, our partners can use their own interfaces for subscription form, but this should meet mobile network operators’ requirements.

Download Subscription-Based Services description

Examples

Information services: exchange rates, weather forecasts, horoscopes etc.

Scheduled delivery of up-to-date information to your subscribers. Any periodically updated information can be delivered as subscription: daily currency rates, weather forecast for your region, and your personal daily horoscopes – all these services are available with one single activation and following automatic renovation.

Payments for premium access

If you have VIP-accounts on your website and the subscribers have to pay for using premium-services, subscription might be the most convenient way to organize billing for this kind of service. Flexibility in picking up tariffing and billing period enables you to choose the payment scheme that fits your services best.

Pay-per-Click

Pay-per-Click is a service based on single MT tariffing (paid incoming message), that is activated by subscriber on the website. Service’s main feature is that the subscriber doesn’t need to send messages each time when service prolongation is needed.

In order to use this payment method, the subscriber should link his account to mobile phone number, and then verify it. Further billing will be made without sending message, subscriber only will need to press "Buy" button on the website.

This service is safer than any other payment method and is implemented on the websites with required authentication, because these accounts must be linked to users mobile phone numbers.

Service description

Each time subscriber wants to make a purchase by pressing the "Pay" button, the mobile phone number attached to this account is displayed.

One phone number can only be attached to one user; it cannot be attached to two different accounts at the same time.

Subscriber can unsubscribe from Pay-per-Click service at any time by deleting specified phone number from the account. Subscriber can also change phone number for billing (with following additional phone number verification).

Download Pay-per-Click service description

Examples

Social Networks

Along with regular SMS-Gate service, Pay-per-Click is also used in social networks for account recharging and purchasing other premium-services.

Online games

In online games immediate account recharge is frequently needed, while necessity to send message for recharging might be annoying for player. After adding Pay-per-Click service to your online-world, players will refill their balance in a matter of seconds.

Mobile Commerce

    Mobile commerce is a new method of receiving SMS payments for your services and has some differences from the Premium SMS:
  • Higher payment amounts
  • Completely safe service without any fraudulent messages
  • Higher payouts (depends on your service category)

Mobile commerce has all the advantages of regular SMS payment (first of all, this is the most convenient payment method for the subscribers). Mobile commerce enables to process payments for more expensive services.

This service is only available for three Russian mobile network operators: Beeline, MTS, and Megafon.

Wide Tariffing Range

Single billing amounts from any minimum sum to 15,000 rubles (any payment amount could be picked for a certain service).

Safe service without any fraudulent messages

When making an SMS purchase, subscriber gets a message containing the name of your product and the amount to be paid. The message also includes an offer to confirm payment by sending a response message to it. Billing only takes place after subscriber answers to this incoming message. However, in case of lack of money on subscribers account, billing will not be successful: this helps to avoid fraudulent messages.

High payments

There’s a flexible scale of service categories that can use Mobile commerce service, and corresponding mobile network operators fees. These fees are much lower than with common SMS payments, so the payouts will be higher.

Please note! Mobile network operators’ fees depend much on services categories, and in some of them your payout can be a lot higher than in SMS billing segment.

General interaction scheme

  • Subscriber chooses service on the website and "Mobile phone payment" type of payment; then the payment conditions are displayed
  • The code for SMS is displayed on the website
  • After sending a message with this code to a short code, the subscriber gets a response message with the service name and its cost. An offer to proceed the payment by replying to this message is also included
  • Subscriber replies to this message
  • In case of successful billing, the subscriber gets another message confirming the payment processing

Examples

  • E-commerce
  • Online content purchases
  • Utility payments
  • Payments for internet and TV-access

Mobile Commerce presentation

Mobile Commerce service description

Wide coverage

over 70 countries

100% of Russian and CIS carriers

500 000 000 potential subscribers

Rates

High capacity

SMS Payments: up to 1.8 million SMS per hour

Messaging: up to 3 million SMS per hour

Reliability

Our system is designed to work in backup mode and uses cluster technologies. That enables us to keep our services running 24/7.

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