Mobile Payment

Service Description

Charge to Bill

This solution provides a single integration to Vodafone billing systems across multiple territories, enabling you to monetise your content and services globally.

Key benefits of our Global Gateway

Single Contract 

• Speed decision making process
• Optimise and leverage country footprint scope and opportunities 
• Cover and include a set of Vodafone’s Core Network Enablers and APIs 
• Ability to distribute and promote your services across the Vodafone distribution channels  

Single Connection Interface

• Cost saving: Avoid specific development per Market to charge Vodafone Customers on their bill (Pre-Paid & Post-Paid) 
• Provide a unique and common interface for transaction routing to Vodafone billing platform what ever the market 
• Ease, Speed Service & Country Roll-Out for testing and acceptance 

Single Settlement, Payment and Reporting 

• Global Settlement process (unique or multiple currencies) 
• Self-Billing option available to speed your pay-out revenues 
• Possibility to handle local VAT on behalf of the partner service (Undisclosed Agency Model) or to act as a Collector Agent (Disclosed Agency Model) 
• Provide reporting and analytics on traffic and usage seen by our systems 

Provide a unique and single Partner Support across multi-language and multi-Market footprint 

• Dedicated Team to answer your query and provide support (24/7) 

Key Benefits of our Charge-to-Bill Operator Billing 

For our partner

• Convenient - No pre-registration and no new mobile software is required. 
• Easy - A single click-to-buy and no need to enter any further payment details 
• Fast - Most transactions are completed in less than 1 seconds 
• Proven best conversion rates – maximise revenue assurance and conversion for the partner services/contents 
• Address more market segments (no credit/debit card – youth – trusted brand – travellers) 
• No minimum fixed fee for low value transaction 
• And much more… 

For our Customers 

• Implicit Authentication – no additional credentials to create or enter 
• Simplicity – they have an existing billing relationship with Vodafone 
• Instantaneous payments giving the highest customer satisfaction 
• Accurate responses showing success and reasons for failure (insufficient credit for pre-paid customer for example) 
• No share of financial information 
• Manage and stay in control of their spending 
• And much more… 

Key Features of our Charge-to-Bill Service

2-Phase Charging: Reserve, Deliver, Capture

• Funds are reserved against the customer’s account, content is delivered and then funds are captured
• If not successful delivery then the reservation is cancelled and the funds are released

1-Phase Charging: Capture Funds, Deliver Content

• Funds are first captured then the content is delivered or the credit is issued
• If the funds cannot be captured, the content will not be delivered/credit will not be issued

Price Points

• Our system provides our partner the ability to charge their service/content using a pre-defined price point list. There are approximately 80 price points available starting from €0.25 to €15 (via €0.50, €0.99, €1.00, €1.50, €1.99, €2.00 etc) but can create specific ones on demand based on the partner requirements

Flexible Pricing

• This feature enables our partners to set the desired price to be charged on the customer bill while calling our Charge-To-Bill service. The partners have therefore more flexibility on managing his content price catalogue, and on management of any discount, happy hour, bundle offers. In other words, our partners can create limitless attractive prices while creating their offering, within an agreed price plan from €0 to €15 as standard micro-payment values but can still be adjusted based on the partner requirements.

Refund

• This feature allows our partners to fully manage the relationship with their customers and can therefore decide to reimburse a customer who has previously paid by our Charge-To-Bill service for any business/technical reason. A refund transaction can only be made against a successful charge-to-bill transaction. A refund transaction can either be full (equals initial transaction value) or partial (Partial Refund Monetary Value) and cannot exceed initial charging value.

Invoice Text Description

• From generic 3rd party premium purchase to content/service name, our system makes it easy for you to decide how to present your transaction receipt on the customer operator bill.

Let’s get in touch with us so that our customers can easily enjoy and access your contents and services…

Download the product guide for more information

Charge to Bill Product Guide (2.3 MB)