SMS Gateway
HTTP Interface
Single-shot Billing
Overview
If a premium MT message cannot be delivered due to billing reasons (for example, end user out of credit), the MX Telecom SMS Gateway will normally resubmit the message to the network at regular intervals, up to the expiry time of the message. This increases revenue by improving delivery success rates.
However, to enable partners to have more control over premium billing, this behaviour can be disabled on a per-message or per-account basis. This behaviour is known as single-shot billing.
Enabling single-shot billing
On a per-message basis
Individual messages can be marked as single-shot billed via additional parameters in the message-sending interfaces.
- HTTP interface: using the mxbillingsingleshot parameter. See the HTTP Interface documentation for more details.
- For other interfaces, please contact us for more details.
On a per-account basis
- Please contact us to have single-shot billing enabled on all messages through one or more of your SMS Gateway accounts.
Supported networks
Single-shot billing is only supported on networks where MX Telecom has control of the billing process. These are shown in the table below. Click here for a table of network codes.
| Country | Network code |
| Australia | TELSTRAAU |
| Ireland | O2IE |
| Ireland | THREEIE |
| UK | BTCELLNETUK |
| UK | THREEUK |
| UK | TMOBILEUK |
| USA | ALLTELUS |
| USA | ATTUS |
| USA | BOOSTUS |
| USA | CINBELLUS |
| USA | CINGULARUS |
| USA | CRICKETUS |
| USA | DOBSONUS |
| USA | NEXTELUS |
| USA | TMOBILEUS |
| USA | USCELLULARUS |
| USA | VIRGINUS |
On most other networks, the message is held by the network until it can be billed, or until it expires.
