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Getting Started

How to implement Phone Billing in 10 simple steps

Implementing Phone Billing solution for your websites is very easy, simply follow the next 10 steps and you will be charging customers all over the world almost instantaneously.

The following instructions apply for any website using any other billing system with .htaccess and .htpasswd as authentication methods on a php enabled environment. If you are managing users through mysql database or mssql under asp environment, or perl or using any other programming language you will need to resource to different instructions set or contact our Tech Support department directly techsupport@passwordbyphone.com

1) Login through FTP (or SCP) to your website.

2) Find your content folder and look for a file named .htaccess (some programs require you to enter a command to view hidden files, please resource to your software help archive for this).

3) Open .htaccess file in a text editor and look for a line similar to:
AuthUserFile /home/user/somefolder/.htpasswd

The above directive points to the file which will store all usernames and passwords encrypted. You'll need to copy that file location as you'll need it for the setuser.php script for phone billing.

4) Create a new directory wherever you want that is accessible through the web, like: http://www.yourdomain.com/pbp/. Inside of it, please upload this script:

http://password-by-phone.com/scripts/setuser.php

The line $Hosts_allowed=array('213.189.25.132','213.189.25. 133','213.189.25.134','213 .189.25.135','213.189.25.136','213.189.25.140'); holds all the allowed IP addresses. To test the script manually, you'll need to add your internet IP address to this line. To find out your internet IP address you may simply go to www.whatismyip.org

5) Now in the encryption method you can just comment or uncomment as needed. Our best advice if you are not sure what this is, is to use md5 as a encryption method as that one is most standard among different setups.

6) Now find line:

$passwdFile="/tmp/.htpasswd";

And change /tmp/.htpasswd to your file location above at AuthUserFile directive.

$passwdFile="/home/user/somefolder/.htpasswd";

7) Now simply load the url: http://www.domain.com/pbp/setuser.php?mode=add&username=sampleuser&password=somepassword

This should give you an OK message and add the user to your allowed member area. If you get an error, you might have some permission settings wrong on your server, for this, contact your webhost or tech support.

8) Use the same username and password as above and try to login to your member area, if all went well with the user addition, you will be able to login there.

9) Now execute this url: http://www.domain.com/pbp/setuser.php?mode=remove&username=sampleuser&password=somepassword

This should remove the new user from your allowed access users.

10) Clean your IP from the setuser.php file and send an email to techsupport@passwordbyphone.com with your:

script location

member area URL

and your pbp-id

and we will setup and configure a package for you and send you all the information you need to finalize the setup of our billing system on your paysites.

We suggest that you use our geo-ip payment buttons on your joinpages, and send traffic from non-cc countries straight to your own international page using http://www.webpinaccess.com/?layout=blank, thus taking your brand global with new revenue stream as well.

Email techsupport@passwordbyphone.com with any custom graphics, logo or any other type of creatives you wish to use and we will create a customize landing page as the one above for you.

Password-By-Phone.com Tech Support
techsupport@password-by-phone.com.com

WINNER XBIZ Awards
Best Alternative Billing

Nov 2009,
Webmasters can come visit our Exhibition Lounge at the Vienna Eurowebtainment Show. November 4-7 in Vienna, Austria

May 2009,
PbP now integrated with NATS4

April 2009,
CCBILL customers can now include PbP In their 'cascade to URL' feature

March 2009,
PbP reports 22% increase in sales since same time last year

December 2008,
We are featured as a Top 100 newsmaker for 2008 by XBIZ!

December 2008,
We have been nominated as best alternative processor for the 2009 XBIZ awards - a big 'thank you' to all of those of you that nominated us!

August 27th, 2008
PbP now support pay-per-minute billing

September 18 -20, 2008
Meet us at the Atlanta forum

Oct 17 - Oct 20, 2008
Meet us at the Island Gathering, Curacao

August 8 -10, 2008
Meet us at interNEXT 2008, Florida

July 9 -11, 2008
Meet us at The Industry's Summer Event 2008, Las Vegas

27th May 2008
Have you seen our speaking blog? Let Tom show you how to many the most from our solution!

Feb 2008
We are offering all our partners the opportunity to advertise their websites on Satellite TV for free! See:http://www.gfy.com/showthread.php?t=803439

Aug 2007
Have you seen our GFY Global ATM promo? Over $2k to be claimed! See:http://www.gfy.com/showthread.php?t=716597

May 2007
We now offer a DRM protection option for content sold using our solution

Feb 9th, 2007
We have been voted the Best Alternative Billing Company at the 2007 XBIZ awards held in Los Angeles, California!

Jan 15, 2007
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Dec 18, 2006
We are a finalist for the 2007 XBiz Awards in Alternative Billing Company of the Year category. The 5th awards are scheduled for February 8 at the Highlands in Hollywood, California.

Oct 08, 2006
PbP nominated for Best Payment at the Venus Web eLINE Awards 2006, Berlin!Vote for us here!

Oct 19 - 22, 2006
Berlin Visit us at the 10.Venus - Germany

Aug 4 - 6, 2006
Hollywood, Fl. Visit us at the Internext Expo

June 19, 2006
We have added webpinaccess.com/?layout=wm_sex to our growing portfolio of consumer facing sites to allow you to capitalise on the global interest in the soccer world cup at this time!

May 11 - 14, 2006
Mallorca Visit us at the Eurowebtainment - Spain

Apr. 24-26 2006
Berlin Visit us at the AOE Expo - Germany

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