Content people pay for by text
Value-added services, done properly: paid SMS subscriptions billed straight to airtime. Daily tips, predictions, devotionals, alerts — with carrier-grade consent, automatic renewals, and revenue that reconciles.
- Carrier billing, no wallet apps
- Airtime
- Carrier billing, no wallet apps
- Renewals & rebilling
- Auto
- Renewals & rebilling
- Subscriber & revenue counters
- Live
- Subscriber & revenue counters
What's included
A subscription business in a box
Everything between a customer texting your keyword and revenue arriving — subscriptions, billing, content delivery, and compliance.
Paid subscription offers
Define offers with their activation and renewal price — daily, weekly, or monthly — registered with the carrier.
Airtime billing
Subscribers pay from airtime through carrier billing. No M-Pesa prompts, no cards, no checkout to abandon.
Automatic renewals
The platform drives the renewal cycle with the carrier — rebilling, retries, and lifecycle events handled for you.
Subscriber broadcasts
Push the day's content to every active subscriber in one action — the deliverable your customers are paying for.
Regulator-ready consent
Double opt-in flows, consent URLs and timestamped records built to carrier and CA requirements.
Instant opt-out
STOP deactivates the subscription with the carrier and confirms to the subscriber — no manual queue.
Live subscription analytics
Activations, renewals, churn and revenue events per offer, per day, in your dashboard.
Rides your shortcode
Offers live on a premium shortcode with keywords — the same infrastructure as your two-way messaging.
Reconciled revenue
Every billing event from the carrier is recorded as it happens, so payouts match your own numbers.
Offers
Package content into offers people subscribe to
An offer is your product: a name, a price, a billing cycle, and the keyword that joins it. Run one club or a portfolio — farming tips at KES 5/day next to weekly devotionals at KES 20/week.
- Per-offer activation and renewal pricing
- Daily, weekly and monthly cycles
- Keyword opt-in on your premium shortcode
- Multiple offers per shortcode
Your subscription offers
Carrier-billed12,480 subscribers
8,113 subscribers
5,027 subscribers
Activation and renewal prices are registered with the carrier per offer — subscribers pay from airtime, no M-Pesa step in the loop.
Lifecycle
The machine runs while you make content
Carrier billing is unforgiving to do by hand. The platform handles the whole loop — welcome, renewal billing, content broadcast, failed-billing retries, and clean deactivations — and tells you about each event as it happens.
- Renewals billed and retried automatically
- Broadcasts to active subscribers only
- STOP honoured instantly, with confirmation
- Every lifecycle event visible in the portal
A subscriber's day, handled for you
Renewal billed by the carrier
KES 5 collected from airtime
Today's content broadcast
12,480 subscribers messaged
New opt-in via KILIMO
Consent recorded, welcome sent
STOP received
Deactivated + confirmation, instantly
Revenue
Numbers that survive an audit
Premium services live or die on reconciliation. Activations, renewals and payments stream into your dashboard from the carrier in real time, so month-end is a formality — not an argument.
- Per-event revenue trail from the carrier
- Daily per-offer reports
- Subscriber counts you can defend
Revenue you can audit
Activations today
312
Renewals today
11,904
Active subscribers
25,620
MTD revenue events
348,072
Every carrier event — activation, renewal, payment, deactivation — lands in your dashboard as it happens, so your numbers and the carrier's statement always reconcile.
How it works
Live in four steps
Design your offer
Pick the content, the price and the cycle — we advise on what performs in the Kenyan market.
We register it
Shortcode, keywords, pricing and consent flows set up with the carrier on your behalf.
Promote the keyword
“Text KILIMO to 23662” on radio, posters, and social — opt-ins start the same day.
Publish & earn
Broadcast content to subscribers; renewals bill automatically and revenue accrues per event.
Use cases
What teams build with it
FAQ
Common questions
How do subscribers pay?+
Through carrier billing — the subscription fee is deducted from the subscriber's airtime at activation and each renewal. There's no M-Pesa prompt or card checkout, which is exactly why premium SMS converts so well.
What do I need to launch a premium service?+
Content and a price. We handle the carrier side: the premium shortcode, keyword registration, pricing approval, and the consent flow. Most services are live within a few weeks of the carrier paperwork starting.
How is consent handled?+
Joining is a recorded double opt-in (keyword text plus confirmation), every subscriber has a timestamped consent trail, and STOP deactivates with the carrier immediately. The flows are built to carrier and Communications Authority requirements.
What happens when a renewal can't be billed?+
The carrier retries per its policy; while a subscriber is unbilled they don't receive paid content, and persistent failures move them out of the active base. You see all of it as lifecycle events.
Can I see revenue in real time?+
Yes — every activation, renewal and payment event lands in your dashboard as the carrier reports it, with daily per-offer rollups. Month-end reconciliation against the carrier statement becomes a five-minute check.
Turn your content into recurring revenue
Talk to us about launching a premium subscription service — we'll handle the carrier, you handle the content.