Software Partnerships & Referrals
Earn extra revenue from SMS with no support headaches
We work with many software partners so that you can add SMS functionality to your software quickly and easily and then scale indefinitely.
If you are building software that you intend to sell to your clients, we can set up unlimited SMS sub-accounts for you so that you don't have to build all the SMS functionality your end. Let us handle the hard stuff...
2 Way logic
With unlimited SMS sub-accounts, when an end user replies to a message, we automatically route the reply back to the originating sub-account our side.
Then you simply poll our replies API every few minutes (please no more frequently than once a minute) and we will pass back any new replies since you last checked just for that sub-account.
This way, you can scale indefinitely… each sub account in your software sending and receiving from their respective usernames & passwords.
You can do this all on one virtual number with no monthly rental fees or each sub-account can have their own dedicated virtual number if required.
Ideally you want to have an “SMS settings” area in your software where you can quickly enter the SMS Everyone sub-account's username, password and originator values.
We set up sub-accounts super fast. We can even set up say 20 or 30 accounts in advance if instant set up is crucial to you.
Credit Counting
We keep a track of your sub-account's SMS usage so that you don't have to build all the logic to accurately calculate the number of credits used per message.
This includes what happens when a message exceeds 160 characters, unicode SMS, extended GSM characters, optouts, duplicate removal, refunds etc etc.
We built all of this well over a decade ago and hundreds of clients use it every day.
Save yourself a world of time.
We also pass back the number of credits used in our API response if you need to keep track of credit usage your side.
Partnership Options
Below are some of the arrangements that we provide to software partners. We are open to pretty much any arrangement you can think of.
Option 1 - We handle everything
Full Sub-account management with commissions
We look after your clients directly for anything SMS or FAX related including free trial accounts, sales, account set ups, top ups, billing, account management and any technical support issues. This way, you and your support team can stay focused on what you do best.
We pay you a percentage of SMS revenue monthly for the life of the client so you also make money from SMS. We'll send itemised remittance showing revenue generated from each of your clients.
We work with you to help you diagnose and fix bugs as your clients find them and report them to us.
Option 2 - You manage your own clients
We'll set up as many sub-accounts as you need and you manage and bill your clients directly on either pre-paid or post paid terms.
Pre-paid (recommended)
If you prefer to bill your clients yourself and put a nice mark up on our pricing, we highly recommend that you have your clients on pre-paid terms with you so that they purchase pre-paid credits that never expire.
If you do it this way, you spread your billing out over the full month instead of having to bill all your clients on the first of the month.
Plus if they burn through credits accidentally or maliciously, the worst they can do is run out of credits that they have already paid for.
When they want to top up their credits, you either log in to our user interface and add the credits to their account manually OR we can do it for you OR you can hit our "Add Credits" API with their username and password and add credits to their account that way. (you can only do this if we approve you as a software partner)
You could even have the client pay for credits via your software and if the payment is successful, you ping our API to add the purchased credits to their SMS Everyone sub-account automatically.
At the end of the month, we will send you an invoice for all the top ups in the previous month. The invoice is itemised by client.
Post-paid
You can offer post-paid terms to your clients if preferred.
This way we will send you an itemised invoice on the first business day of the month for all SMS usage in the previous month itemised by client.
We will impose a monthly safety ceiling on your sub-accounts to minimise damage for any accidental loops, malicious sending, hacks, bots etc. That limit might be say 5,000 SMS messages per account per month. You can choose.
Option 3 - You handle everything
We provide a single account and you handle credit counting, routing replies and billing etc.
This is the cheapest option but requires much more support and development on your side.
Other arrangements
We are happy to talk about partnerships of all kinds.
Our goal is to help you grow so please get in touch any time if you would like to discuss any other options.