Experience Skype to the Max: The Essential Guide to the World’s Leading Internet Communications Platform

Chapter    9

Managing Your Skype Account and Subscriptions

In Chapter 7 the discussion included mention of your Skype Account as it relates to setting up various services, such as Calling Plan subscriptions when calling landlines and mobile phones. However, the Skype Account goes beyond managing these services to include managing your Skype profile and password, handling payments, and reviewing your Skype activity. Skype Manager also can manage Skype activity across a business or organization.

Pay in Advance—No Phone Bills

Skype’s services for calling landline and mobile phones are Skype’s major revenue source. Managing customer accounts, especially receivables, has always been a major logistics overhead and expense for the legacy landline and ...