Application and Content Billing
MACH Content Billing provides the most comprehensive, one-click, in-app, cross-platform direct, real-time billing solution for app-stores and content providers, introducing the revolutionary next step in content billing method evolution. This means that you can provide the best mobile content billing experience for your customers and achieve dramatically higher conversion rates from content transactions.
BILL YOUR CONTENT DIRECTLY
MACH direct billing solution:
- A single interface to all billing systems
- Real time authentication and authorization within the application
- Capture all payment requests in MNO billing systems
- Flexible - ‘any charge’ – pricing options
- Pre-paid subscription management billing
- Reconciliation and business insight reporting
- Content partner settlement, recourse, credit/debit management
Mobile applications and digital content represents a significant business opportunity for content providers, app stores and mobile network operators.
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 Content Billing – The first wave of solutions for mobile content billing has been premium SMS, followed by WAP based solutions. New market entrants as well as new commercial, technical and usage aspects are changing the requirements for content payment schemes and the shift from premium SMS and WAP based solutions is happening right now. The rapid expansion of available mobile products, applications and services requires a solution that is more sophisticated, more intuitive and more secure – we call this ‘Direct Billing’.
Direct Billing
MACH supports a direct operator billing solution for mobile applications and mobile internet services. It provides a single interface to various operator billing systems, which allows application and content providers to charge subscribers directly on to their mobile phone bill, creating a ‘One-Click’ buy process.
Authentication as well as authorization is done in real-time and take place within the application, delivering a seamless user experience and increased purchase conversion. This direct operator billing infrastructure removes the issues associated with mobile billing, including inflexible pricing, revenue leakage and a bad user experience.
Our solution facilitates application providers and content providers to create payment requests and authenticate individual mobile end-user billing IDs. Our solution authorizes payment requests in the operator billing systems and it captures the payment request after product delivery.
We facilitate a variety of billing and subscription services. 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.
MACH’s direct billing solution comes with built-in financial reporting modules giving you access to all transactions in terms of traffic and value. Our analytical tools provide detailed reporting and data analysis enabling you to track commercial performance in a variety of ways, all vital to better understand the business opportunities and quickly identify those ‘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
MACH has created an applications and content market, uniting application providers, content provider and MNOs worldwide by connecting their businesses directly, allowing the consumer to enjoy a seamless mobile applications experience.
No more of the usage, authentication or security issues associated with premium SMS or WAP; No more issues with rigid pricing schemes! We offer a single hub based connection interface, based on open standards ensuring that no Application or Content provider has to establish individual bilateral connections with multiple MNOs in order to distribute content. Our direct billing hub simplifies and accelerates the usage of applications and content on mobile phones.
