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## Managing Gupshup Low Wallet Balance & Glific Suspensions
## Managing Gupshup Wallet Balance and Glific Suspension:

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### Overview:

<img width="499" alt="image" src="https://github.com/glific/docs/assets/143380171/10aa2a07-ba85-4c3f-974a-cbdd41f71845"/>
Your organisation's **Gupshup Wallet** is used to send WhatsApp messages through Glific. Maintaining a sufficient wallet balance is essential to ensure uninterrupted message delivery.

- When the `Gupshup wallet balance` drops to around `$1` an email is sent to the Organization from Glific letting them know the balance is low.
Glific monitors your wallet balance and notifies to the registered email address added in Glific while filing the onboarding form when it falls below a configured threshold. If the wallet balance is not recharged in time, your organisation may eventually be suspended from sending messages through Glific.

- The setting of `$1` or any specific amount is configurable at Glific’s end.

## Below are the steps on how this can be configured.
### How to Recharge Your Gupshup Wallet:

1) Login to the `Glific Account`
1. Log in to your [Gupshup account](https://www.gupshup.ai/) with your registered Gupshup email address (used during app creation)
<img width="502" height="306" alt="image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/02b5e4e5-9ba1-4520-bc94-afbc98bad8a2" />

2) Go to `Settings`

<img width="265" alt="image" src="https://github.com/glific/docs/assets/143380171/990b7b56-c801-4ca2-a099-74f8135674b6"/>
2. Navigate to **Wallet** → **My Wallet**.

3) Click on `Organization>> Scroll down`

3. Click **Add Credits**.

<img width="498" height="286" alt="image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/1f15904f-294a-43bd-98cc-52e462372816" />


4. Enter the recharge amount.
- The minimum recharge amount is generally **$10**.
5. Provide the required billing information.

<img width="478" height="320" alt="image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/a0d70912-e5ea-4004-9c0b-322ed1837b09" />


6. Select your preferred payment method.

7. Complete the payment.


## Supported Payment Methods for Gupshup Wallet Recharge

The available payment methods may vary depending on your region, but commonly include:

- Credit Cards
- Debit Cards
- Net Banking (where available)
- Other payment options supported by Gupshup such as (Razorpay, Stripe)


## Monitoring Your Gupshup Wallet Balance

You can monitor your Gupshup wallet balance in two ways:

- **On the Glific platform**, where the current wallet balance is displayed.

<img width="499" alt="image" src="https://github.com/glific/docs/assets/143380171/10aa2a07-ba85-4c3f-974a-cbdd41f71845"/>

- **Through low balance warning emails** sent by Glific.

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The user would get these alert emails, only they have checked "receive emails" in the setting. Please mention this condition.

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Tanu this section threshold is to customise as per NGO's preference but by default Glific will send the low balance warning emails

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The email will be send irrespective of the receive emails value. We should actually hide that toggle. Can you please create a ticket for this @tanuprasad530

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But then how will NGOs be able to customise it also the UI is confusing I had raised this with Tejas on Discord - https://discord.com/channels/717975833226248303/1123118457936941056/1542540244136632380

will log an issue on this


### Low Balance Warning Emails

When your wallet balance reaches the configured **Low Balance Threshold** (for example, **$1**), Glific automatically sends a warning email.

> **Note:** The threshold amount is configurable and can be changed based on your organisation's requirements.
More details on who receives these notifications and how wallet balance alerts work are covered in the sections below


The warning email is sent to the **email address that was used while creating your Glific app (during the Glific onboarding form submission).**

If this email address is no longer accessible or needs to be updated, please contact the Glific Support Team on support@gliifc.org with the new email address that should receive these notifications.

### Configuring the Low Balance Threshold

To update the low balance threshold:

1. Log in to your Glific account.

2. Navigate to **Settings**.(Go to the bottom left where you login name would appear, click that and select Settings)

<img width="189" height="181" alt="image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/839b140e-376a-437e-aa22-a3d84a1180ec" />

3. Click on `Organisation>> Scroll down`

4) See the `Low Balance threshold`
4. See the `Low Balance threshold`

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5. Receive warning mails - Enable this checkbox to receive automatic email alerts about your Gupshup wallet balance. If the checkbox is un-checked,Glific will send alerts only if your Gupshup wallet balance goes below $1.

These warning emails are sent to the registered email address provided while filling out the Glific Onboarding Form at the start.
Incase you want to change the added email address please do reach out to Glific support on support@glific.org

6. Low balance threshold for warning emails — Set a desired number, for example 10. If your Gupshup wallet balance drops below this amount (e.g., 10 USD), the system will send you a warning email. These emails will be sent once a week until you recharge your wallet above 10 USD.

7. Critical balance threshold for warning emails - Set a desired number, for example 3. Once your balance drops below this amount (eg., 3 USD) or lower to this amount, you will receive warning emails more often - every two days - since your balance is close to running out.

8. Click **Save**.

> Adjust this value based on how frequently your organisation recharges the wallet.

> **Important:** Recharge your wallet before it reaches **-$1** to avoid interruptions.

If your wallet already shows a **negative balance**, any recharge amount is first used to clear the outstanding balance. The remaining amount is then added as your available wallet balance.

For example:

- Current Balance: **-$3**
- Recharge: **$20**
- Available Balance after recharge: **$17**

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### Minimum Wallet Balance

To avoid any disruption in message delivery:

- Regularly monitor your wallet balance.
- Recharge before the balance reaches **-$5**.
- Keep sufficient funds in the wallet based on your expected messaging volume.

<img width="485" alt="image" src="https://github.com/glific/docs/assets/143380171/6d0e9325-b73c-497d-af42-a90c47a71f6c"/>

### Essential Guidelines
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### What Happens When the Balance Falls Below -$5?

- The pre-configured number on the low balance threshold can to be changed according to the Organization need,just edit the number and hit on `Save`.
Once the wallet balance reaches **-$5**:

- This low wallet balance warning emails will be sent to the email address which was initially provided while filling the Glific Form.
- Gupshup stops processing outgoing messages.Incoming messages will still functions as expected.
- Message sending fails due to insufficient wallet balance.
- Glific begins receiving wallet balance errors from Gupshup.

- If in case the previous email address is not accessible or needs to be modified. Please reach out to the `Support Team` sharing the email address which needs to be set on the warning mails.
If Glific receives a significant number of these errors, your organisation is automatically **suspended** to prevent continuous message failures.

- Gupshup gives an extra `$5`,when the wallet balance reaches `$0` so that there is no interuption in sending of messages until the balance hits `-$5`. The Organization should always ensure to recharge the Gupshup Wallet before the -$5 gets expired to continue sending messages.
### Glific Suspension

#### How to Recharge Gupshub Wallet Balance
- Log in to your Gupshup account and navigate to the Wallet section and click on My Wallet.
- Click the option to Add credits
- Enter the amount.(Note that minimum recharge is often $10.)
- Enter the necessary billing information to generate an invoice, such as your name, address, and email.
- Choose your payment option and complete the payment
Once your organisation is suspended:

[read here](https://support.gupshup.io/hc/en-us/articles/33760266293529-Basics-of-Gupshup-Wallet-and-Billing-for-Prepaid-USD-Wallet) to know more about how to recharge Gupshup Wallet Balance.
- You will no longer be able to send messages from Glific.
- Recharging the Gupshup wallet **does not automatically remove the suspension**.

To restore messaging:

- If the balance goes below `-$5`,sending messages will give an error - **the wallet balance is low**. So in this scenario the messages will get delivered to the users until the Gupshup wallet balance reaches -5 $.
1. Recharge your Gupshup wallet.
2. Contact the **Glific Support Team** on support@gliifc.org
3. The support team will manually unsuspend your organisation.

- Glific gets a **balance is not present** error from Gupshup as soon as the wallent balance for an Organization goes `-$5`.
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- At any moment of time if Glific gets a significant amount of errors,the organization will get suspended on Glific and won't be allowed to send any messages.
### Best Practices

- Once the organization is suspended it won't get unsuspend automatically on Glific,even if the recharge is done on the Gupshup Wallet.

- To `unsuspend` the Glific account please reach out to the `Support Team`.

- Monitor your wallet balance regularly.
- Configure an appropriate low balance threshold.
- Recharge before the balance reaches **-$0**.

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remove -

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image It shows as point in the doc

- Ensure the registered notification email (used while creating the Glific app) is accessible.
- Keep enough balance based on your expected messaging usage instead of relying on the temporary $5 credit.

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At the beginning add - most importantly check - "receive emails"
Probably check with devs - if it is checked or unchecked by default. If it is the latter, then definitely include this as a point in best practise.

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It is unchecked by default


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