Reverse Billing / Premium Rate.

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What is Premium Rate / Reverse Billing? Many people subscribe to services using their mobile phone. This is usually to receive new music videos, racing tips, tarot readings or news for example on their mobile. In many cases this content is "chargeable", ie the end user pays for the content they receive. This can be anywhere between 25p and £10. This is known as "Reverse Billing" or "Premium Rate Services". Not only does this allow your clients or the public to interact with your services but is a great way to generate a steady revenue stream. How does it work? Simply texting a "keyword" and an answer or vote to a 5 digit short code number is all that is required. Your clients can be charged from 25p-£10. We can offer a shared 5 digit number from just £19.99 per month or if required provide you with a dedicated inbound number of your own. More information on shortcodes can be found on our shortcode page. Premium rate services we can provide:   Premium Rate SMS text message Chat Services. Inbound messages can be responded to automatically with an SMS or MMS reply or instead can alert you to respond manually. You can easily configure the replies to be free to the client or at a premium cost. There are many clients already using this service for services such as adult content, tarot and racing tips. For more information on Text Chat see our 2 Way SMS Chat services page   Text Voting and Text Competitions. Are you considering running a voting service by text message? The end user can text a vote easily at just a standard message cost or at a premium rate between 25 & £10. For more information on text voting, take a look at our SMS Competition page.   Text Reverse Auctions and Lowest Unique Bid. SMS reverse auctions (otherwise known as lowest unique bid auctions) are becoming very popular as a fun alternative way to win for example TV's, laptops, cars and holidays. For more information on reverse auctions, take a look at our SMS Competition page       Multimedia Content. Clients can request music, video, pictures or midi songs easily by text for a premium charge. For more information on sending MMS Multimedia, take a look at our Multimedia page   API Gateway. We provide an API gateway which can be used with our both our standard SMS and premium rate services. We HTTP POST incoming messages directly to your own server/application for you to take control of the content that is sent back to the client. Documentation for our API can be downloaded from our API/Developer page. For more information for developers can be found on our  Developer page

Costs.
We provide one of the cheapest ways to get started with reverse billing. Our "Copper Account" is perfect for the new user and is simply a "Pay-as-You-Go" service with no contract ties:

Ideal way to start using Reverse Billing! Simple monthly charge, pay-as-you-go! Start generating revenue today. Clients can text your chosen keyword to 82055 Choose from one of 7 amounts between 25p and £10 per request. Pay a higher monthly charge and generate higher out-payments. Market leading easy to use pricing structure. NO lengthy contracts or ties!   Just £19.99 per month pay-as-you-go         Sign up for your free starter account online now!  We can quickly upgrade your account, just call us!

Network Out-payments.
Out-payments are the amount you receive after network charges. If you would like a copy of our reverse billing plans and their out-payments, just call us for a download code then click here and follow the instructions.

Useage.
Premium Rate Services must be operated under the guidelines and rules of the regulatory body, PhonePay Plus. There is a PhonePay Plus compliance document available to download here which explains how services must comply.