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How does it work?

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Your customer sends an SMS to your service.

 A few seconds after following these instructions, this consumer receives your digital content, a code to access your online service...

At the end of the month this payment appears on your customer’s mobile phone invoice; unless the person has a pre-paid mobile card, then of course the payment is immediately charged from the phone’s credit when the payment is made.

 

 

Message flow

mpulse sends and receives your SMS via its connections to Mobile Operators:

Send and receive premium SMS

 

Payment flow

The cash-flow starts with the mobile user, transits through the Mobile Operator and mpulse, and naturally ends with you:
Revenue share premium SMS

 

Technical Features:

  • Receive and send Premium SMS. Premium SMS are SMS messages that cost more than a normal message sent from one mobile phone to another. You get part of these revenues.
  • Premium SMS from/to any application, over the Internet. Communicate with our gateway via protocols that are easy to integrate. HTTP GET, XML, SOAP, SMPP… or even email!
  • Real-time statistics accessible 24/7 via the Internet. Your performance per Shortcode number, mobile operator, keyword. Charts of your SMS-traffic: monthly, weekly, daily, hourly. See how many people are using your service.

view live statistic

  • Dedicated or Shared Short Codes more details…
  • Delivery reports
  • WAP-Push
  • Binary messages
  • Concatenated messaging
  • Message expiration
  • Dynamic keywords  (regular expressions) more details…
  • Keyword-sessions more details…
  • Redundant internet connections and state-of-the-art server housing
  • Infrastructure annual up-time > 99 %

 

Service features:

  • 24/7 expert monitoring and emergency intervention. Every component of the mcharge infrastructure is monitored 24/7 (including end-to-end SMS simulation). Serviced and supported by field experts.
  • Number reservation. mpulse reserves from mobile operators the numbers you will use to send/receive Premium SMS.
  • Financial clearing and settlement. mpulse authenticates users and settles your transactions with mobile operators.
  • Consolidated itemized reconciliation. You receive one single invoice for all transactions on various mobile operators and in multiple countries.
  • Regulatory information
  • Revenue optimization. mpulse helps you clean your user-database to increase your revenues. E.g. reduce the amount of SMS being sent to mobile numbers that no longer exist.
  • SLA add-on. mpulse offers additional guarantees and system reporting with the optional SLA agreement. Brochure, rates and conditions available upon request

 

SMS Payments Details:

Customers

1

International SMS competition - Total

Total

Total chose mpulse as technical partner to setup an international SMS competition

2

Viral marketing campaign - McDonald’s

McDo

The paper on McDonald’s tray promoted the download of a free mobile logo - the campaign-mascot holding a sign with a website’s address…

3

Distant monitoring - Schroders

Shroders

The financial institution Schroders trusts mpulse to deliver its server failure SMS notification.

4

Customer notifications - Mercedes-Benz

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Mercedes-Benz Luxembourg informs their customers by SMS when their car is repaired and available...