SMS Price Increase
From January 2024 the cost of receiving of a SMS text message will increase to 7 pence. The Parent application previously displayed the cost per SMS message (payable by the Parent or Carer) as 6 pence.
In addition, the UI displayed the minimum top-up amount for SMS texts as £2.40. This amount has been updated to £2.80.
The minimum amount payable is the cost of 40 SMS text alerts. Therefore, with the price per text message increasing to 7 pence in January 2024 the minimum amount payable needs to be £2.80.
The global Text message alerts payment item has been updated to ensure the minimum price to pay is £2.80. If the Payer attempts to pay less than the £2.80 minimum amount they will receive an error. The maximum amount has also been amended to £10.50 which is the equivalent of 150 SMS texts.