Assign Wallet when: Typical accounts: unified messaging resellers, enterprise multi-product customers, international billing.
Category: Credit / Wallet
When should an admin assign Credit?
Assign Credit when: Typical accounts: SMS resellers, bulk SMS customers, trial/sandbox SMS users.
Credit Type vs Payment Type — don’t confuse them
These are two separate settings on the user’s Global Attributes tab: Setting Options Meaning User Credit Type Credit / Wallet How balance is stored and deducted Payment Type Pre-paid / Post-paid When the customer pays (before or after usage) Examples:
What is the difference in practice?
Credit account Wallet account
What is Wallet?
Wallet is a currency-based billing model.
What is Credit?
Credit is the classic SMS billing model. Note: This option can be only used for SMS product.