Definition
The following section provides details on how to receive text messages sent in to your TextPremium Short Code and Keyword service, and,
optionally, send back premium text messages that are billed at a higher rate to the message recipient.
These are known as Short Code and Reverse Billing services.
With a Short Code service, as well as receiving inbound messages
sent in to your service (billed to the sender at their normal, prevailing SMS rate),
you can also, optionally, send back premium text messages to the handset directly, and
automatically, from within your application.
If your Short Code service does involve sending back premium messages, then there are two different
scenarios in which you will be sending premium messages:
- A user is entering a competition or voting on a topic, and expects to receive a single SMS
(or possibly multiple, if stipulated in the terms of the service), by response.
- A user is subscribing to a service where they expect to receive multiple reverse-billed messages.
For example the user may be subscribing to a news or astrology service where they expect to receive one
or two premium, reverse-billed messages each day.
TextPremium enables you to manage both types of reverse-billed application, where either you manage the
interaction with your users, or you use our subscription service to automatically compile and maintain your
subscription list.
When using our standard service you receive an inbound message to your Short Code and Keyword, and you send
back one or more premium messages to the recipient’s handset, through your application.
When using our subscription list facility, there are two methods that enable you to send your content
to either all or some of the subscription list.
With our subscription list facility, the subscribers automatically receive a “Welcome”, non-premium text
on subscribing, and are added to the subscription list for your service. A subscriber wishing to unsubscribe
will be removed from the subscription list automatically when they text “STOP”, followed by your Keyword to
your Short Code. The un-subscriber will receive automatic confirmation of their removal from your service via
a non-premium text message.
Methods to send and receive premium content messages can be called by either the HTTP(S) Receiver or Web Service.
Link to the Premium Web Service
Link to the WSDL
Link to the Premium Web Service Methods
The methods supported by the Premium Web Service can be found here