Promotional consent must be separate from transactional consent

The requirementstatement

A single opt-in must not bundle promotional marketing with informational or transactional messaging.

Severityseverity
BlockingBLOCKINGBreaking this rule gets the submission rejected. There is no partial credit.
When it bitesphase
Gates approvalapprovalGet this wrong and the brand or campaign is refused at registration.
What is checkedobject
consent surface
Where it liveslayer
Consent flowCONSENT_FLOW
How Ekas settles itdetectability
AI · crawlCRAWLAI · visionVISION
Needs your live site or policy page fetched and read. Ekas crawls it the way a reviewer would. Needs the pixels: a screenshot of the opt-in surface, a scanned paper form, an MMS attachment.
What the fix involvesfailureClass
Fix the websiteTERMINAL_WEBSITE
The fix lives on your site. No amount of rewording the form clears it.
Who requires itauthorities
TCRTwilioAWSCTIA
When it appliesapplicabilityText
Applies to every 10DLC registration.

Why this rule existsrationale

These are different consents with different legal standards: transactional messages can often be sent as part of delivering a service, while marketing requires express written consent that must be optional. One combined box forces the stricter standard onto the whole program and leaves you unable to prove marketing consent for anyone.

How to fix itremediation

Offer two independently checkable boxes — one for order and account updates, one for promotional offers. The promotional box must be optional and unchecked; the transactional one may be required if the messages are the service.

A compliant exampleexample

☐ Send me order and delivery updates by text.
☐ Send me promotional offers and marketing by text (optional). Consent is not a condition of any purchase.

Provider rejection codescodes

The code you get back when this rule is what failed, and whether that provider lets you resubmit.

ProviderCodeResubmit
Twiliogen230913Yes

Rules you will hit next

6 other rules read consent surface. Fixing one field to satisfy a single rule is how a resubmission trades one rejection for another, so read these before you change anything.

All consent flow rules

CON-SCOPE-SPLIT is one of 101 consent flow rules in the 915-rule 10DLC registry. Free to cite under CC BY 4.0.

Reading the rules is the easy part.

Ekas runs every rule that gates approval, 823 of these 915, against your registration before it reaches the carrier. It reads your site, your policy pages and your opt-in the way a reviewer would, and hands you the fix, not just the verdict.