The leading Polish e-book vendor Legimi and the mobile technology company Fortumo have launched a direct carrier billing partnership.
Through Fortumo’s PayRead solution, users can now subscribe to Legimi and access thousands of e-books and audiobooks by charging the payments to their phone bill. The option to pay with carrier billing is available to more than 18 million subscribers of the mobile operators Orange and Plus.
Legimi collects carrier billing payments from users in Poland through Fortumo’s Unified SDK product. Through Unified SDK, one integration connects Legimi to telcos in Poland and gives access to a network of more than 300 other mobile operators and digital wallets. Fortumo hosts and localizes Unified SDK checkout flows on its platform, making it simple and scalable for merchants to launch local payment methods across the world. Legimi additionally users Fortumo’s Subscription Engine for full user lifecycle management of users acquired through carrier billing.
Mikołaj Małaczyński, CEO at Legimi
Instant access, convenient payment. This is a must for a fast growing and ambitious digital entertainment company. That is why we decided to cooperate with Fortumo. The simplicity of implementation was also important, as it did not require significant involvement of the resources of our IT team.
Andrea Boetti, Director of Strategic Partnerships at Fortumo
Carrier billing is the leading alternative payment method used by global app stores, game developers and streaming services. Fortumo’s PayRead gives digital publishers the simplest way to adopt the payment method when transitioning from an ad-based model to a reader revenue model.
