FM USSD ACCESS POINT CONFIGURATION                                                                        

Further Market offers an accessible way for anyone wishing to access the USSD portail through its Mobile Money FM Business account.

How does it work?

The developer creates its Mobile Money account if not exist, then he creates a Further Market account (free) and receives a unique identifier. He proceeds to the binding of its Mobile Money account with that of Further Market. If during the course of his services, he wants an access to the USSD portail the only thing to do is to follow the below instructions.

Requirements:

As said above, the developer must have:

- Mobile Money account associated with a number

- Further Market Business Account

- Couple your Mobile money number with your Further Market Business Account

- Have cash in his Mobile Money wallet

How to do:

You just need to follow instructions.

1- Clic on Inquiry Service

2- Choose Add on the up coming window

3- Fill the required data for Static text type.

4- Fill the required data for CRM Data type.

1- New service is created

How to use the service?

For Static Text

1- Dial *141# to enter Further Market USSD portail.

Choose inquiry ( option 2)

Enter inquiry ID ( 4 for this example )

Then you have access to the previous configured ‘Static Text ‘ .

Note that you can browse page to page by using the ‘#’ as shown on the example.

For CRM Data

2- Dial *141# to enter Further Market USSD portail.

Choose inquiry ( option 2)

Enter inquiry ID ( 7 for this example )

Enter customer code which is retrieved from the previously imported CRM Data

Then you have access to the previous imported‘CRM ‘ . You can refer to ‘ADVANCED BULK SMS GENERATOR FOR CRM’ for learning how to import CRM in Further Market Platform.

For direct access to your service

Dial *141*2*7# to enter Further Market USSD portail and access directly to your Service.

Enter customer code which is retrieved from the previously imported CRM Data

Then you have access to the previous imported‘CRM ‘ . You can refer to ‘ADVANCED BULK SMS GENERATOR FOR CRM’ for learning how to import CRM in Further Market Platform.

Billing

The billing process of this service can be set by configuration as shown below:

1- Clic on the targetted service

2- Highlight and double clic the service for edition

3- Select the billing tab to setup as required. On the “Bill Only These” tab, you can set telephone numbers on which the billing process will be applied. On the contrary, the “Do Not Bill These” tab, allow you to set telephone numbers on which the billing process will not be applied.

4- Clic on “List” button to create the billing list or to access and edit an existing one.

5- For this example, we are creating a billing scheme from scratch. So we clic on Add to proceed.

6- The service billing form will pops-up to allow customisations of the billing scheme.

- You can deactivate the billing status(1)

- Set the billing period(2) and even days of the week at which it is applied(3)

- Set the cost of the service in a particular currency. Note that you can specify the amount to be deducted from FM account or GSM one, having in mind to the priority is given to the FM credit(4).

- You finally set the access time expiry, and the way the user will be charged ( 1^st access / each new data access )

After those settings, make sure that everything is as per required and clic on save. That’s all for the billing procedure.