Account Validity
6 min
these are pre decided denominations that you can purchase which will extend your account's validity if you purchase a pack that gives 5 months' validity today (say, 1st june 2021), your account will expire on 31st october 2021 let’s say you paid rs 9999 for this 5 month validity, you get 4000 exotel credit in your account just like how sim card validity recharges will also give you talk time if you do another 5 months recharge one month down the line (on say, 1st july 2021), your expiration date now will be 30th march 2022 because your earlier validity expiry date was 31st october 2021 the extension will happen from the date of validity expiry if you recharge any time before your account expires, then you will carry forward the pending balance on the contrary, recharging an account after it expires will mean you would have lost all unused pending balances by losing, we mean that you will see a line item for "unused credits" costing you the pending balance in your invoice for the expired month validity extension in case you have enough credits and would only like to extend only validity without the addition of any credits, this can be done through the exotel account please go to the payment page please visit http //my exotel in/pay http //my exotel in/pay there are 2 options for extension of validity 5 months validity rs 5999+18% gst=rs 7078 82 11 months validity rs10499+18% gst=rs 12388 82 once you have extended the validity, you can buy credits separately later based on your requirements top up top up is useful if you are running out of credits yet there is sufficient validity using the above example, let us say you run a campaign on the 25th of august that costs you rs 5500, then you only have just 500 rs left you would now "top up" your account for, let's say rs 5000 credit addition in case you have validity and would only like to purchase credits, this can be done through the exotel account please go to the payment page please visit http //my exotel in/pay http //my exotel in/pay the credits can be purchased based on the requirement the gst amount of 18% will be applied to the credits and the same is visible on the dashboard recommended recharge amount for a video overview of recharges, watch https //learn exotel com/share/wrl82zk162idmfsl6qwx8w https //learn exotel com/share/wrl82zk162idmfsl6qwx8w the recommended recharge amount depends on the purpose of recharge that is if it is for credits or validity if you are intending to recharge for your account's validity we have 2 options (5 months and 11 months) available you can choose one of the options based on your requirement to know more about the validity extension recharge, see the validity extension section above this amount should ensure the smooth functioning of your operations you can refer to your previous bill to know your approximate usage for your account which should give you a fair idea of the denomination of the recharge to be made alternatively, you can also analyse your daily usage of credits by downloading the call and sms reports of the previous day, week, or month and then make the necessary recharge depending on your average usage watch a short video
Have a question?
Our super-smart AI, knowledgeable support team and an awesome community will get you an answer in a flash.
To ask a question or participate in discussions, you'll need to authenticate first.