Configurable price matrix for mobile billing at a billing server

1. A method of processing transactions with a billing server, comprising:

receiving, at the billing server, a configuration input from at least one merchant computer, the configuration input configuring a pricing matrix of countries and target prices, the pricing matrix having a set of cells, each cell corresponding to an intersection between a respective country and a respective target price, such that each country has a subset of the set of cells, the subset having a plurality of price points that are different from each other;

storing, with the billing server, the pricing matrix;

receiving, with the billing server, a pricing call from the merchant computer system;

transmitting, with the billing server, the pricing matrix to the merchant computer in response to the pricing call;

receiving, with the billing server, a payment authorization based on one of the price points;

determining, with the billing server, a carrier server based on the payment authorization;

sending, with the billing server, a charge request to the carrier server to charge an account on the carrier server corresponding to phone number; and

transmitting, with the billing server, a transaction callback notification to the merchant computer.

2. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

registering, with the billing server, a public portal account for the merchant computer on the billing server;

creating, with the billing server, a service in the account; and

adding, with the billing server, the countries at the pricing matrix to the service, wherein the pricing matrix is configured by the merchant computer on the billing server; and

approving, with the billing server, the pricing service.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein at least one price point for one of the countries differs from all price points of another country.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the price points for two different countries are in different currencies.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the one target price has a plurality of price points associated with a plurality of countries.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein the price points for at least one country is only supported below a predetermined amount.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein the price points for at lone country are only supported for a set of predetermined amounts.

8. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

transmitting, with the billing server, a payment confirmation to a handset at the phone number after transmitting the charge request to the carrier server.

9. The method of claim 8 , further comprising:

transmitting, with the billing server, a transaction result through the merchant server to the handset for display by an application on the handset.

10. A non-transitory computer-readable medium having stored thereon a set of instructions wherein, when executed by a processor of a computer performs a method of processing transactions with a billing server, comprising:

receiving, at the billing server, a configuration input from at least one merchant computer, the configuration input configuring a pricing matrix of countries and target prices, the pricing matrix having a set of cells, each cell corresponding to an intersection between a respective country and a respective target price, such that each country has a subset of the set of cells, the subset having a plurality of price points that are different from each other;

storing, with the billing server, the pricing matrix;

receiving, with the billing server, a pricing call from the merchant computer system;

transmitting, with the billing server, the pricing matrix to the merchant computer in response to the pricing call;

receiving, with the billing server, a payment authorization based on the price point;

determining, with the billing server, a carrier server based on the payment authorization;

sending, with the billing server, a charge request to the carrier server to charge an account on the carrier server corresponding to a phone number; and

transmitting, with the billing server, a transaction callback notification to the merchant computer.

11. A billing server comprising:

a processor;

a non-transitory computer-readable medium connected to the processor; and

a set of instructions on the computer-readable medium and executable by the processor, including:

a transaction application programmable interface management module executing the steps of:

receiving a configuration input from at least one merchant computer, the configuration input configuring a pricing matrix of countries and target prices, the pricing matrix having a set of cells, each cell corresponding to an intersection between a respective country and a respective target price, such that each country has a subset of the set of cells, the subset having a plurality of price points that are different from each other;

storing the pricing matrix;

receiving, with the billing server, a pricing call from the merchant computer system;

transmitting the pricing matrix to the merchant computer in response to the pricing call; and

a carrier billing module executing the steps of:

receiving, with the billing server, a payment authorization based on one of the price points;

determining, with the billing server, a carrier server based on the payment authorization;

sending, with the billing server, a charge request to the carrier server to charge an account on the carrier server corresponding to phone number; and

transmitting, with the billing server, a transaction callback notification to the merchant computer.