Mobile Payments in Bulgaria

Bulgaria: General Information

Population:

7,640,238 (2008)

Currency:

BGN (1 BGN = ~0.51 EUR)

More info:

Bulgaria

Mobile operators:

M-tel, Globul, Vivacom

Mobile Operators Market Share

Billing:

MO-billing

Price (BGN) incl. VAT	0.30	0.60	1.20	2.40	4.80	6.00
Price (BGN) excl. VAT	0.25	0.50	1.00	2.00	4.00	5.00
Mobile Payments / Premium SMS API Pay-by-Mobile Widget In-App Payments for Android	35%	40%	50%	50%	50%	50%

The table above shows your revenue after the operator's share, Fortumo commission and the costs of sending the users a reply SMS

Mobile operator takes a revenue share on each transaction for handling billing, collecting money and covering credit risk. The operators then pay the remaining money (usually between 40% and 60% depending on end-user price) to Fortumo. Fortumo pays you the money received from operators minus a small commission (which can be only 2-3% of net price, depending on country, type of service and volume). The table above shows your revenue after the operator's share and Fortumo commission.
Presented revenue share is calculated from the Price excl. VAT (20%).
Price presented to end user is Price incl. VAT (example: 6.00 BGN)
Payout cycle in Bulgaria is 2 months

Fortumo pays you money immediately after we have received it from the mobile operators. Operators in different countries pay at different speeds. Payout cycle of 2 months means that the revenue earned by your services in January will be transferred to you in the first half of April.
After the initial waiting period, you would get a payout each month, as your February money arrives in May, March money in June, etc.

January February March April

1. Your services earn revenue
2. Operators pay money to Fortumo
3. Fortumo pays money to you

The service must be in compliance with Fortumo Terms of Service, Bulgarian legal acts and good morals.
The end user price must be clearly stated in the advertisements and instructions of use.
Using numbers provided by Fortumo for donation services is prohibited. In case that you want to create such one, please directly contact the mobile operators.
Adult, donations, lotteries, gambling, job-offerings, medical, juridical and accounting related services are strictly forbidden. Creating services used for promotion of work opportunities and hiring is forbidden. Multiple billing is not allowed.
Mobile purchases from same mobile phone number are limited to 100 BGN per 30 days.