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Mobile Application Billing

Juniper Research forecasted that by 2013, mobile phone users will make at least two payment transactions per month with nearly half being for digital goods. The Mobile Applications space provides a significant business opportunity.

BILL YOUR CONTENT DIRECTLY

Our direct billing solution consists of :

  • A single interface to all billing systems of MNO’s.
  • Real time authentication and authorization within the application.
  • Capture of all payment requests in MNO billing systems.
  • Flexible - ‘any charge’ – pricing possibility.
  • Pre-paid subscription management billing.
  • Reconciliation and business insight reporting.

Handsets are transforming into sophisticated transaction terminals with pre-installed content and pre-installed clients offering more and more sophisticated mobile applications consumed by mobile users.

Mobile Application Billing - As of today premium SMS is the most used payment scheme in the mobile arena. However, the rapid explosion of available mobile products, applications and services require a much more sophisticated and direct mobile content billing method. The type of market entrants as well as the commercial, technical and user aspects are changing the requirements for a payment scheme and the shift from premium SMS to direct billing is happening right now.

Mobile Payment Gateway

Our Mobile Payment Gateway (MPG) is a direct operator billing solution for mobile applications and mobile internet services. It is a single interface to various operator billing systems, which allows application service providers (ASP) to charge subscribers directly on to their mobile phone bill, creating a 1-click-buy process.

Authentication as well as authorisation is done in real-time and take place within the application, giving a seamless user experience and it increases conversion. This direct operator billing infrastructure takes away the issues currently apparent in mobile billing models such as inflexible pricing, revenue leakage and bad user experience.

Our solution furthermore facilitates ASP’s to create payment requests and authenticate individual mobile end-users billing IDs. MPG authorizes payment requests in operator billing systems and it captures the payment request after the product delivery.

We facilitate a variety of billing and subscription services for ASP’s. Subscription services are based on a recurrent time period, such as weekly or monthly subscriptions, which can be automatically renewed or cancelled when the time has been reached.

Finally our solution comes with built-in financial reporting modules giving you access to all transactions in terms of traffic and value per MNO or ASP. Moreover our analytical tools provide detailed reporting and data analysis enabling ASP to track performance in a variety of ways all vital to better understand the business opportunities and ‘killer apps’.

Key features:
  • A single interface to MNO billing systems.
  • Direct 1-click-buy billing process with real time authentication and authorization.
  • Possibility to charge digital goods directly to the mobile phone bill or prepaid card.
  • High volume transaction capacity.
  • Subscriber refund capabilities.
  • Revenue leakage protection.
  • Access Point independent.

We unite MNO’s and ASP’s worldwide by connecting their businesses directly, allowing the subscriber to enjoy mobile applications seamlessly. No hassle with premium SMS , nor any issues with rigid pricing schemes. We offer a single hub connection interface based on open standards ensuring the MNO does not have to set up individual bilateral connections with the ASP’s. Our direct billing hub simplifies and accelerates the usage of applications on mobile phones.


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