The process for sending a premium, reverse-billed message, starts with first receiving a message sent to your Short Code and Keyword. The message sent to your service is charged to the sender at their normal, prevailing rate for sending text messages. There is no premium charge for any messages sent to your Short Code service.

It is the initial inbound message that provides you with the authority and associated code (through the Reverse Billing Identifier) to be able to send back one or more premium messages.

Having received an inbound message to your premium content service, you will then wish to send one or more premium content messages back. Depending on your choice of service, there are different methods available to send premium content messages to your users.

If your service is a standard service, then you will be receiving inbound messages and you will be then deciding on the premium messages that are sent back.

If your service is a subscription service, then TextAnywhere will manage subscribers to your service and you will send premium messages back to all or some of the members of your Subscriber Group, for your service.