Charge To Account Gateway Technical Information (Including PayForIT)

Overview

The MX Telecom Charge To Account Gateway allows individual end users to be charged for both one-off purchases and subscription services. A subscription's charges and lifecycle can be managed entirely by the gateway.

The MX Telecom Charge To Account Gateway uses the PayForIT UK cross-network mobile payment mechanism. If you are not familiar with the basics of the scheme, please refer to our introduction to PayForIT.

Features

• Integration with your application using HTTP requests
• Plain text or XML response format
• Support for one-off charges or recurring charges as part of a subscription

Requirements

• You must be able to send standard HTTPS GET/POST requests
• You must host a URL to receive incoming HTTP notifications from the Charge To Account Gateway

One-off Charges

How to process one-time payments using the Charge To Account Gateway.

Subscriptions

How to charge for subscription services using the Charge To Account Gateway.

Status Codes

How to interpret the status codes sent by the Charge To Account Gateway.

Branding

How to customise the merchant information that is displayed on PayForIT confirmation pages; how to use the Charge To Account Gateway's support for multiple brands.

Marketing Opt-ins

How to collect marketing opt-ins through PayForIT using the Charge To Account Gateway.

Address Collection

How to collect delivery address information for the sale of physical goods, using the Charge To Account Gateway.

Age Verification

How the Charge To Account Gateway handles end user age verification.

Anonymous User ID

How to use the Charge To Account Gateway to identify visitors to your WAP/XHTML site and retrieve information about them without knowing their mobile numbers.