SMS Billing

[habtasia]

Hello,

I have a suggestion for HabboxForum,

I know all of you are sick and tired of waiting for a VIP Editor to give you VIP after you bought it by SMS, BUT...... Habbox can have a system which does it automaticly... Ohohohoh Yes!, The system is called:


Mobilebill
(www.mobilebill.net (http://www.mobilebill.net))

Features:

- Changes user VIP instantly
- Automaticly charges user 1.50 p/m (NO NEED TO KEEP SENDING TEXTS IN)
- Custom Shortcode (e.g Text : JOIN HABBOX to 78889)
- Easy Managment
- ITS FREE TO USE
- All you need to do is import a .xml file into the Products section of the CP
- Specialy designed for vBulletin
- Loads more features

So Habbox, i think ALOT of your members (including me) would love to have this system as you get VIP the second you pay and it is
EASIER TO USE!

Thanks for looking at my suggestion :)

Josh.

[Lee]

The problem is you can only have one V.I.P group. So only blue or only black. ect. But I used it once.

[Slowpoke]

I like this and I hope management consider it! :)

[habtasia]

The problem is you can only have one V.I.P group. So only blue or only black. ect. But I used it once.



You can make different "CAMPAIGNS" on your user account on the website so you can have DIFFERENT VIP COLOURS

[e5]

Good spot, I think management should atleast TRY it, and if it's successful, they should keep it :).

[habtasia]

Good spot, I think management should atleast TRY it, and if it's successful, they should keep it :).


Thanks for all feedback :)

[The Professor]

If it does everything we need it to I don't see a reason to not implement it, but then again I don't know the ins and outs of it so I'm not really in a position to comment ;)

[Titch]

Very good find and VERY intresting. + Rep

[Jordy]

If it's free also that'd be a huge bonus as that GL Pay takes huge percentages but I'm sure it's most probably to good to be true, should be looked into though.

[Titch]

vBulletin™ Plugin

MobileBill is now proud to announce the first vBulletin (http://www.vbulletin.com/) Reverse SMS Plugin (http://www.mobilebill.net/tour) for all vbulletin forum owners. It's very quick and easy to setup, even for complete novices and takes less than 5mins to install. It comes complete with an admin area configuration page, giving you lots of flexiblity on the way it looks and works and it even has its own Sign Up page. No contracts! No Fees! Simply plugin and start to earn subscription revenue or donation revenue right now!

[habtasia]

If it's free also that'd be a huge bonus as that GL Pay takes huge percentages but I'm sure it's most probably to good to be true, should be looked into though.



Thanks for +rep


Also, Jordy

I have it on my forum: www.habbocolours.com/forum/sms_signup.php (http://www.habbocolours.com/forum/sms_signup.php)

It is great software

[Plank]

I think it's a good idea, but is it safe?

[habtasia]

I think it's a good idea, but is it safe?



Yep, i tested it on my forum:

www.habbocolours.com/forum/sms_signup.php

[habtasia]

Soz for double post (wont let me edit :S)

Theres also a link to downgrade: www.habbocolours.com/forum/sms_downgrade.php (http://www.habbocolours.com/forum/sms_downgrade.php)

But dosnt show anything

[-Danube-]

Seems a good idea, management should have a good look at it.

Will make me want to buy VIP (i'm put off by the length of time it takes to come)

and ye i know i have VIP but thats cos i won RVR of the month and you get free 1 month VIP.

[habtasia]

Seems a good idea, management should have a good look at it.

Will make me want to buy VIP (i'm put off by the length of time it takes to come)

and ye i know i have VIP but thats cos i won RVR of the month and you get free 1 month VIP.


Cool :)

[Catzsy]

Two things. First how much would Habbox make for each sale?

Secondly how easy it is for the member to cancel as its seems like a continous debit every month?

[Titch]

Two things. First how much would Habbox make for each sale?

Secondly how easy it is for the member to cancel as its seems like a continous debit every month?

1) Habbox make the full amount of the text. So if it was 1.50, they would make 1.50.

2) There is 5 opitions. One off debit, Daily debit, weekly, monthly and yearly. Habbox would jsut use the one off debit optiion.

[Catzsy]

1) Habbox make the full amount of the text. So if it was 1.50, they would make 1.50.

2) There is 5 opitions. One off debit, Daily debit, weekly, monthly and yearly. Habbox would jsut use the one off debit optiion.


So how do the company make their money? :S

[habtasia]

No, no

What it is,

1) Habbox earns ALL money (£1.50)

2) If you want to stop the automaic monthly charges you send 'STOP' to 78889

[Titch]

No, no

What it is,

1) Habbox earns ALL money (£1.50)

2) If you want to stop the automaic monthly charges you send 'STOP' to 78889

acording to the site thats only if you selete the dail, weekly, monthly or yearly opition?

[habtasia]

Yes, only for AUTOMATIC subscriptions

[Titch]

Mobilebill allows our customers to bill up to 30GBP per mobile handset, per day.
Mobilebill is based on the long standing telecommunicatios industry "revenue share" model. Mobilebill's payout rates are the most competitive in the industry. We take a very small percentage of revenue compared to the Mobile Phone Operators or other companies in this market. Our sms payout rate to you is one of the best in the reverse sms business, and we charge you no fees for the use or support of our service
http://mobilebill.net/images/tariff_pie_chart.png
*Prices based on a payout rate of 0.80 GBP per successful sms transaction. As of June 2008

[GoldenMerc]

Operators dont take that much?

[Monkwrestler]

sounds too good to be true almost
http://www.mobilebill.net/tariff/

[Titch]

Operators dont take that much?

I just got it off site.....

[Catzsy]

The way I read it is that Habbox gets 80p out of the £1.50 which is about normal :)

[Titch]

The way I read it is that Habbox gets 80p out of the £1.50 which is about normal :)

Yeh, after much scruitinising yes, i think only good thing about it is its a vbulletin MOD which adds it automatically.

[Catzsy]

Yeh, after much scruitinising yes, i think only good thing about it is its a vbulletin MOD which adds it automatically.

Oh that sounds okay :)

[GoldenMerc]

Yes but the colours how would that work out?

[shizzle]

This is good, hope they try this out.

[Jin]

80p will be an average, as different operators make a payout of different rates. This is worth considering due to the ease of use, what makes me wonder however is whether the plugin will now work with 3.7.1

[habtasia]

If you go to my forum:

www.habbocolours.com/forum/sms_signup.php

Look at the very bottom were it has all copyright notices, you'l see the version is 3.7.1 and im running it :P

[msb.]

The way I read it is that Habbox gets 80p out of the £1.50 which is about normal :)
When you say "normal" does that mean every1 on this forum that pays
£1.50 only 80p goes to habbox and the rest goes to the sms operator?

[habtasia]

Thats whats happening with the Current system now

[msb.]

Thats whats happening with the Current system now
Sorry are you talking to me?

[habtasia]

Yep :)

[msb.]

Yep :)
oh so what happens if this gets installed?

£1.50 turns into?

[habtasia]

Mobilebill allows our customers to bill up to 30GBP per mobile handset, per day.
Mobilebill is based on the long standing telecommunicatios industry "revenue share" model. Mobilebill's payout rates are the most competitive in the industry. We take a very small percentage of revenue compared to the Mobile Phone Operators or other companies in this market. Our sms payout rate to you is one of the best in the reverse sms business, and we charge you no fees for the use or support of our service

http://mobilebill.net/images/tariff_pie_chart.png

*Prices based on a payout rate of 0.80 GBP per successful sms transaction. As of June 2008

[Catzsy]

When you say "normal" does that mean every1 on this forum that pays
£1.50 only 80p goes to habbox and the rest goes to the sms operator?

Yes if they use the same system that I do. :)

[Titch]

oh so what happens if this gets installed?

£1.50 turns into?

80p still, however this feature can be built into vbulletin so the VIP is automatcially added so you dont have to wait! which is were all the moaning occurs

[nvrspk4]

This is very interesting.

Its definitely worth looking into. Thank you for the heads up on this ;)

[AgnesIO]

Would be MUCH easier to catch out the scamming gits.

[Florx]

http://www.habbopressforum.com/sms_signup.php

We have had it on our forum a while now. It's great but only one VIP group can be selected.

[GoldenMerc]

http://www.habbopressforum.com/sms_signup.php

We have had it on our forum a while now. It's great but only one VIP group can be selected.
Ah that sucks :(

[Yoshimitsui]

Could you not set it up several times for each colour?

[joshuar]

I like this idea also. Espeically because nvr will end up bored as he runs out of VIP work!

[habtasia]

Could you not set it up several times for each colour?


Yes, thats what you do

[GommeInc]

Sounds like a good idea, if the management can buy features like a bug reporter and a chat system, then they may aswell buy/download/install this, which is afterall a feature which has an important use.

[AgnesIO]

http://www.habbopressforum.com/sms_signup.php

We have had it on our forum a while now. It's great but only one VIP group can be selected.

Set it up more thsn once then :)


Could you not set it up several times for each colour?

That would be what i was thinking :D

[sierk]

Does anybody know exactly how they pay out to the owners of the websites (so how the money comes to us)?

[Elkaa]

Does anybody know exactly how they pay out to the owners of the websites (so how the money comes to us)?

I would assume bank transfer, given it's a real company. I didn't find the information, though.

[today]

I've heard many complaints on vBulletin.org regarding this not giving them what they require.

[Test:Tube:Baby]

Does anybody know exactly how they pay out to the owners of the websites (so how the money comes to us)?
I've looked around the site and in the members part it says:

"Currently our only payout method is Paypal. We will be using other methods over the next 12 months.
Minimum Payout: £10. To create a free Paypal account click here."

[AgnesIO]

MobileBill sends the Customer a unique Password to their Mobile Phone which must be entered into your website. This costs the Customer your specified billing amount either as a "one time" charge, or as a recurring subscription model, every day/week/month/year, until your customer texts "STOP" to 78889.
Our servers will authenticate the password that your user has input and instruct your software to upgrade membership status


That is from there site.

The recurring thing sounds good, although somehow i can see them charging 5 quid to stop.

[sierk]

I have looked into this website http://www.mobilebill.net/ and also a thread about it on vbulletin.org http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=176134 .
There are a number of issues.
The company is still quite new, which means I don't know how reliable they are. Therefore it's better to wait a while and see what experience other people have with them.
They say you have to wait 3 months before you get the money, and also they only offer payments by paypal, which means we lose another percentage.
It is always a risk to install vbulletin plugins as they might contain exploits.
I don't like to let our members be charged automatically every month until they cancel, I think it's safer to only accept one-time payments. Also I am not sure how much the users are charged in total to make such a one-time payment.

All in all I want to wait a few months to see how this develops, and to hear the experiences from other forum owners that have actually received payments from them.

[AgnesIO]

I have looked into this website http://www.mobilebill.net/ and also a thread about it on vbulletin.org http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=176134 .
There are a number of issues.
The company is still quite new, which means I don't know how reliable they are. Therefore it's better to wait a while and see what experience other people have with them.
They say you have to wait 3 months before you get the money, and also they only offer payments by paypal, which means we lose another percentage.
It is always a risk to install vbulletin plugins as they might contain exploits.
I don't like to let our members be charged automatically every month until they cancel, I think it's safer to only accept one-time payments. Also I am not sure how much the users are charged in total to make such a one-time payment.

All in all I want to wait a few months to see how this develops, and to hear the experiences from other forum owners that have actually received payments from them.

Well why dont you make it so members can buy bulk buys, for 6 months via SMS then.. ATLEAST you could do this..

And dont tell me any crap that you cant do tyhat as i know you can since clubhabbo use the same service, and they can./

[Nereo]

I use this, its great and it works fine. Has everything Habbox needs :)

[Niall!]

Well why dont you make it so members can buy bulk buys, for 6 months via SMS then.. ATLEAST you could do this..

And dont tell me any crap that you cant do tyhat as i know you can since clubhabbo use the same service, and they can./

(Psst, they need the monthly ones because they can charge more)

[sierk]

Have you ever received any money from them?


I use this, its great and it works fine. Has everything Habbox needs :)

[iJoe]

I remember vbulletin.org blacklisting it for a while, now its considered ok by them though.

You should maybe try it on a few members, till you get £10 on it, then see if they pay out.

[AgnesIO]

(Psst, they need the monthly ones because they can charge more)

Exactly the reason.

Even habbo give deals on HC ><


I remember vbulletin.org blacklisting it for a while, now its considered ok by them though.

You should maybe try it on a few members, till you get £10 on it, then see if they pay out.

I would volunteer to do that, providing multi buys is bought in for SMS.