SMS authentication only on new user registration

  • Anonymous February 27, 2015 at 9:05 pm

    Hello,

    I am using HotspotSystem Pro to sell prepaid vouchers.

    I have made user registration mandatory for people accessing my hotspots using vouchers, so they must create username / password accounts to create vouchers.

    I like Hotspotsystem’s builtin SMS authentication feature, but I would like to use SMS authentication only to verify their phone number when the user *registers* their account for the first time, but not every time they activate a new voucher on their account.

    Sending SMS for every voucher is very expensive. Once I have validated the user’s phone number and associated it with their username and password, I don’t want to do SMS authentication any more.

    Marko Molnar February 27, 2015 at 9:13 pm

    Hello,

    Thank you for posting your suggestion! Please note that SMS authentication does not cost the operator anything. It is not priced the same as the FREE SMS solution which charges according to how many SMS you send.

    The main difference is:
    FREE SMS sends an access code by SMS which enables the user to login.
    SMS authentication sends a verification code to a mobile device which a user must enter when logging in with a voucher that is provided by you. This requires a voucher code be already supplied to the user. In this case no credit is deducted for the SMS.

    In both cases the system records the user’s mobile number which helps identify the user, this is also a legal requirement in some countries for public hotspots. See: http://help.hotspotsystem.com/faq/pre-sales/in-my-country-autorities-require-that-any-access-must-be-logged-eu-directive-200624ec-what-logs-do-you-provide

    • This reply was modified 11 years, 6 months ago by Marko Molnar.
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