Finland Elisa Direct operator billing

Direct Operator Billing Finland Elisa

MSISDN Forwarding is a process that enables you to capture a phone number (the MSISDN) for billing the end user via an approved flow between the mobile networks (the MNOs), MessageCloud’s platform, and your server. 

Now available in Finland for the first time, MSISDN Forwarding enables simpler premium rate services via MessageCloud's APIs, targeting 4.8 million mobile subscribers.

Please note that each of the MNOs in Finland implement MSISDN Forwarding in quite different ways, so you will need to ensure you take into account the differences. Our APIs will help you to integrate both kinds of implementation.

Together, Elisa and Saunalahati control 37% of the Finnish mobile market. Elisa acquired Saunalahati in 2005. Saunalahati is an MVNO, or virtual operator, which has its own branding but is powered by the Elisa mobile network, which means the approach to these MNOs is the same.

To use Elisa/Saunalahati MSISDN Forwarding, you will need to call our Retrieval API to request the MSISDN. Unlike Sonera, you cannot receive the MSISDN directly via Elisa/Saunalahati header enrichment.

Once you have the MSISDN, either through an API call or header enrichment, you can use it to complete the charge against the end user’s phone bill.

Transaction Flow

Making a billing attempt

You should send your HTTP GET requests to the following URL:

  http://client.txtnation.com/finland/elisa_charge.php

The API expects the following parameters to be sent:

Available Classes

Telephone services have been divided into groups on the basis of their content.

• Non-profit services
• Online services
• Entertainment services
• Adult entertainment services

Interpreting the result

A successful call to this API will generate output similar to the following: { status: "ok", status_message: "ok", ref_id: "154289130250073169514852", msisdn: "353123456789" }

The ref_id parameter can be used to refund the end user using a separate API call.

If the check is not successful you may receive an error similar to the following:

 {      status: "error",      error_code: 5000,      error_message: "Missing parameter: cc"  }

A full list of error codes is provided below for your reference.