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 carrier 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 carriers

Single-shot billing is only supported on carriers where MX Telecom has control of the billing process. These are shown in the table below. Click here for a table of carrier codes.

Country	Carrier 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	USCELLULARUS
USA	VIRGINUS

On most other carriers, the message is held by the carrier until it can be billed, or until it expires.

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