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5. Payments and Invoicing

5.1. Buy Credits using a Credit Card

5.2. Buy Credits using PayPal

5.3. View Invoices for Credit Card/PayPal purchases

5.4. Buy Credits by depositing or transferring of funds

5.5. View Credit History

5.1. Buy Credits using a Credit Card

In order to be able to send SMS messages to colleagues, customers, friends or family, you will need to buy credits. To buy credits using a Credit Card:

Step 1: Log into your BulkSMS account and go to your ‘My Accounts’ page

Step 2: Click ‘Buy Credits’ under the ‘Commerce Centre’ heading

Step 3: Choose the number of credits you want to buy from the drop down menu. (e.g. from 200 credits at R84.36 up to 50,000 credits at R13,680.00).

Step 4: Choose ‘Credit Card’ as your payment method

Step 5: Click ‘Continue’

Step 6: Confirm the transaction details by Clicking ‘Purchase Credits’

Step 7: The screen will go to the WorldPay website. Choose the Credit Card type you wish to use (i.e. Visa or MasterCard)

Step 8: Enter both the ‘card’ and ‘cardholder’ details.

Step 9: Click ‘Make Payment’.

Step 10: Confirm the payment details.

Step 11: Click ‘Continue’ to return to your BulkSMS account

You will also receive an email confirming your transaction.

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5.2. Buy Credits using PayPal (not available in South Africa)

In order to send SMS text messages to colleagues, customers, friends or family, you will need to buy credits. To buy credits using the PayPal system:

Step 1: Log into your BulkSMS account and go to your ‘My Accounts’ page

Step 2: Click ‘Buy Credits’ under the ‘Commerce Centre’ heading

Step 3: Choose the number of credits you want to buy from the drop down menu.

Step 4: Choose ‘PayPal’ as your payment method

Step 5: Click ‘Continue’

Step 6: Click the PayPal logo

Step 7: Confirm the Unit Price

Step 8: Update the Totals

Step 9: Create a PayPal account if required or log in to PayPal

Step 10: Follow the PayPal process as per all other payments

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5.3. View Invoices for all online purchases

You can view the invoices issued for all your online purchases, all you need to do is:

Step 1: Log in to your BulkSMS account and go to your ‘My Accounts’ page.

Step 2: Click ‘View Invoices’ under the ‘Commerce Centre’ heading

Step 3: This will show a list of all invoices. To view one, Click on the ‘invoice number’. This will bring up the invoice for you to view and/or print.

Step 4: Click on ‘My Account’ to go back to your accounts page.

Example of an online invoice:

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5.4. Buy Credits by depositing or transferring of funds

In order to send SMS text messages to colleagues, customers, friends or family, you will need to buy credits. To purchase credits depositing funds or by paying via an electronic funds transfer:

Step 1: Log in to your BulkSMS account and go to your ‘My Accounts’ page

Step 2: Click ‘Buy Credits’ under the ‘Commerce Centre’ heading

Step 3: Choose ‘Bank Deposit’ as your payment method

Step 4: Click ‘Continue’

Step 5: Gather the information you need from the page in order to be able to transfer or deposit the funds as per the number of credits you wish to buy.

Please note that you may request an invoice and it will be faxed/emailed to you. Please email invoice requests to admin@bulksms.com

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5.5. View Credit History

To see a list of credits bought and used per day, you can follow these steps:

Step 1: Log in to your BulkSMS account and go to your ‘My Accounts’ page

Step 2: Click ‘Credit History’ under the ‘Commerce Centre’ heading

Step 3: View all the credits bought and their relevant Invoices (if bought online), as well as when they were used.

To view an invoice you can Click on the highlighted invoice in the ‘Linked Document’ column.

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