SaveOnPhoneServices.com - SMFS - ("Subscription Monitor For Skype")

Skype recently has changed something, I am working to resolve what was changed.

Because of this change that Skype made, It is normal to fail logon, attempts, using SMFS, please be aware of this. Your logon and password is FINE, it is because of the change that Skype has made, that SMFS fails to logon, your Skype logon and password, is OK

Well. You asked for it you got it and it's FREE!

SMFS - The ("Subscription Monitor For Skype") works with all 10,000 monthly minute type subscriptions and requires no setup to use from any location in the world. SMFS is passive, it does NOT restrict ANY Skype service if any subscription limits are exceeded, it is informative in nature.

SMFS is the ONLY real-time and accurate method to calculate what your current real-time Skype subscription call minutes are day by day as well as monthly and how many different numbers you have called, using your subscription on any given day. This becomes important because......

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Recently, Skype modified their FUP - "Fair Usage Policy".

Skype now has defined more limits for Subscriptions. They are:

10,000 Minutes Per Month.

Maximum of 6 Hours (360 Minutes per Day).

No more than 50 different numbers, in total, can be called per day.

Once these limits are exceeded, Skype will charge normal rates and a connection fee for any additional minutes used.

Here is the direct link to the Skype FUP: Click Here

Daily limits only apply to "Unlimited" subscriptions, all other types of subscriptions can use the Subscription Monitor for Skype" to monitor minutes used.

If you call more than 50 different telephone numbers in one day, or 10,000 Minutes of call time using your subscription minutes, your subscription will be suspended, until the first day of the next month, using GMT 0 as the time. So for example, if you made more than 50 calls to 50 different numbers on April 7th, 2009 and you were located in Minnesota, your subscription would be suspended until April 30th, 2009 8:00PM which is May 1st, 2009 GMT 0.

If you exceed 360 minutes in one day or 6 hours of subscription call time in one day, then your subscription will be suspended until the next day, which is GMT 0. So, if you exceeded 360 minutes in one day on April 7th at 3:00PM, you would be suspended until April 7th at 8:00PM which would be Midnight GMT 0.

ok, so what, who needs a Subcription monitor?

There are a few reasons why you would want a subscription monitor, here are a the major reasons:

Your Skype call history stored on your Windows system ONLY reflects the calls you made on that individual Windows system.

Example: If you use Skype on more than one computer, in your home, at work, at friends homes, you can't get the total call history from those systems, if you have used more than one system during that day or that month.

If you use call transfer, you cannot get any information on the length of any transferred call, even from the system that transferred the call. If you use Skype To Go or router based Skype devices there also will be no local call history on any computer.

Of course you can go view your call history by logging on at the Skype web site and viewing your call history, but you had better have a pen and paper, and a good calculator, because:

Both Daily and Monthly Subscription Limits are based on GMT 0. Meaning, for example, If you live in Saint Paul, MN, where it is GMT -6 hours, the old day ends and the new day starts at 18:00 or 06:00PM

The month of March for example for Skype Subscription limits started on february 28th at 18:00/06:00PM NOT March 1st at Midnight.

There is no rounding of minutes with subscription minutes like there is with SkypeOut credit, so this is why seconds are displayed as well.

"The Subscription Monitor for Skype", does NOT require a Skype client to be running. So, if you want to keep track of your minutes used at work and at home, or at a friends house, you can run "The Subscription Monitor for Skype" even before starting Skype to check what your current minutes are.

"The Subscription Monitor for Skype" refreshes automatically, every 30 minutes. There also is a "Update Now" button that when pressed will update your Subscription limits at anytime as well.

Since "The Subscription Monitor for Skype" does not require a Skype client to run, you can monitor ANY Skype name at anytime, even if you are logged on as another Skype name, even if you use a Linux or a Mac normally, or any combination of different Skype devices, Skype To Go, computers and/or computer platforms during the day or month, but have access to a Windows based system at the moment, you can view your current Skype subscription values in real-time for the day as well as the entire month.

"The Subscription Monitor for Skype" allows you to save your Skype name and password, so that each time "The Subscription Monitor for Skype" is started it will automatcially start getting Subscriptions for the last Skype name when it was used the last time it ran. "The Subscription Monitor for Skype" stores passwords locally on the computer in question, using safe encryption methods.

This is an optional feature, and can be disabled, by clicking the "Config" button and unchecking the "Save" Check Box. If the "Save Check Box is checked, "The Subscription Monitor for Skype" will remember your Skype name and password, and when started each time will begin to display the current values of your Subscription usage and limits.

You can change the Skype name and password at anytime to look at other Skype names Subscription usage without stopping "The Subscription Monitor for Skype" by simply clicking on the "Config" button and entering a new Skype name and password, and then pressing the "Validate" button.

You will then see the current Subscription Limit values for the new Skype name and password you entered and validated.

"The Subscription Monitor for Skype" uses a video display icon, located in the System Tray, when all your limits are under roughly 90 percent usage, a video display icon with a green screen is displayed in the System Tray:

Daily Different Numbers Max 50 less than 45 Daily Call Minutes Max 360 Less than 324 Monthly Call Minutes Max 10,000 less than 9000

"The Subscription Monitor for Skype" uses a video display icon, located in the System Tray, when one of your limits are at roughly 90 percent usage and more, a video display icon with a yellow screen is displayed in the System Tray:

Daily Different Numbers Max 50 greater than 45 Daily Call Minutes Max 360 greater than 324 Monthly Call Minutes Max 10,000 greater than 9000

"The Subscription Monitor for Skype" uses a video display icon, located in the System Tray, when one of your limits are at roughly 95 percent usage and above, a video display icon with a red screen is displayed in the System Tray:

Daily Different Numbers Max 50 greater than 47 Daily Call Minutes Max 360 Less greater 342 Monthly Call Minutes Max 10,000 greater than 9500

If any limit violations have taken place anytime during the current month, they will be displayed in local date and time, and the subscription violation that took placed will be listed.

All subscription violations are listed from most recent to earliest violation this month. The date time listed as the violation date and time is when the last call that had no violation was made that day, or that month, depending on the violation. You can verify this by looking at your online call history at:

https://secure.skype.com/account/call-history

If you see one violation displayed, click on the arrow to view any other violations, there maybe more than one violation, if you do not see the word "None" displayed in the violations box.

If there are no subscription violations this month, then none will be listed.

This was done for those who may have violated the subscription limits in the past and were NOT using SMFS, but are today, since SMFS shows current subscription values for today. They might not know without this feature why their subscription was suspended, since SMFS only shows todays totals and monthly totals.

By Left Clicking on the "The Subscription Monitor for Skype" you can see all the Subscritpion Limits as well as a video display icon for green, yellow and red much like the color for the Icon in the System tray, but the proper color for any item listed above. Since there maybe some limits at red, yellow and green at the same time.

By right clicking the "The Subscription Monitor for Skype" you can see a menu that allows you to go to the Skype forum, Display The SMFS window, get Help for SMFS, go to the SaveOnTelephoneBills.com web site, and close the menu as well. This same menu can be displayed by clicking on ANY blank area on the SMFS window as well.

The color of the icon shown in the Sytem Tray reflects the worse Skype subscription limit total, so if some subscrition limit totals are at yellow and green, but one is red, then the icon located in the System Tray will be red. Each subscription limit also has a video display icon along side of the total that will reflect the green, yellow, red status of each susbscription total being monitored.

Here are pictures of SMFS - "The Subscription Monitor For Skype" on showing after the "Config" button being clicked so that another Skype name and password can be entered, and the other show the window after that information was entered and the verify button was pressed:

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"The Subscription Monitor For Skype" can be unistalled at anytime by using the Add/Remove Programs from the Control Panel.

If your firewall intially blocks "The Subscription Monitor For Skype" at install time, simply click the "Update Now" button to retry until you see a Last Update time. Currently, only default proxy support is in place, for those that use a proxy, but a future update will also support proxies with user credentials as well.

If you lose your connection or are not connected the icon in the System Tray will have a blue color, not green, yellow or red, you can at anytime click the "Update Now" button to force a re-connect or wait for the normal 30 minute time period where an attempt to connect will be tried again.

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