SMS Billing

[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