Agent types
Two types of RCS Agents
When applying for your RCS sender profile, you choose between two agent types. The type determines your billing model and how conversations work.
How conversational billing works: Outside the United States, businesses can use conversational RCS Agents to enable real-time, two-way interactions.
- The first message sent is billed as either Basic or Rich, depending on its content.
- If the recipient responds, a 24-hour conversation session begins, during which all messages are covered under a flat conversational rate.
- If a customer initiates a conversation with a brand and the brand replies within 24 hours, a conversation session begins at the conversational rate.
If a user doesn’t respond, each message is charged separately based on the message type sent (Basic or Rich). If they do respond, the pricing shifts to the session-based conversational model.