Monthly sole-proprietor traffic reports are due by the 7th

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The requirementstatement

Where a CSP is enabled for sole-proprietor brands, monthly traffic reports must reach TCR by the 7th of the following month.

Severityseverity
HighHIGHRejected by at least one carrier or provider, and a common cause of failure at the rest.
When it bitesphase
After you are livepostFalls due once you are sending: STOP handling, quiet hours, suppression, record retention.
What is checkedobject
sole-proprietor traffic report
Where it liveslayer
BrandBRAND
How Ekas settles itdetectability
Human checkHUMANPost-submissionUNDETECTABLE_PRE_SUBMISSION
Only someone holding the document or making the call can settle it. Ekas tells you exactly what to look at. The subject does not exist yet at submission time: a reply window, an expiring PIN, a queue position. Reported with its deadline.
What the fix involvesfailureClass
Wait on someone elseTERMINAL_EXTERNAL
Needs an external system or a waiting period, such as IRS propagation, a vetting result, or a carrier queue.
Who requires itauthorities
TCR
When it appliesapplicabilityText
Applies to every 10DLC registration.

Why this rule existsrationale

The tier was granted to CSPs on condition that its traffic is reported, so the filing is what keeps the tier available rather than a formality — a CSP that stops filing puts every sole-proprietor brand it holds at risk, not just its own standing. Businesses on the tier never see this obligation, which is exactly why it is worth their CSP knowing it exists.

How to fix itremediation

Put the filing on a recurring calendar entry for the first working days of each month, with the previous month's sole-proprietor volumes. Done when the report is accepted by TCR before the 7th.

Check this yourselfattestation

No tool can settle this one for you. Here is the check, and what wrong looks like.

Is your provider enabled for sole-proprietor brands, and does it file the monthly traffic report to TCR by the 7th?

  1. 1Ask the provider directly whether they are SP-enabled and who owns the monthly filing.
  2. 2If you are the CSP, put the filing on a recurring calendar entry for the first working days of each month.

What wrong looks like: A provider quietly stops filing and loses the tier. Every sole-proprietor brand behind it goes too, and none of those businesses ever knew the obligation existed.

Notesnotes

An obligation on the CSP rather than on the brand, and nothing in a registration reveals whether it is being met. What the user has to establish is whether their provider is SP-enabled and files these reports — a provider that quietly stops can lose the tier, and every sole-proprietor brand behind it goes with it.

Rules you will hit next

Other brand rules at the same severity. A registration is judged as a whole, not rule by rule.

BRD-006Submit every name line above the address on a multi-line IRS recordHighHIGHBRD-007TCR takes only the first line of the IRS-registered nameHighHIGHBRD-010Take the legal name from the CP-575 or 147C, never a W-2 or W-9HighHIGHBRD-014An acquired business registers the details it filed taxes underHighHIGHBRD-027EIN must be old enough to have propagated to IRS recordsHighHIGHBRD-034Validate a non-US identifier against its home register before submittingHighHIGH

All brand rules

BRD-087 is one of 196 brand rules in the 915-rule 10DLC registry. Free to cite under CC BY 4.0.

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