Campaign auto-renewal must be set deliberately
The requirementstatement
The autoRenewal setting must be chosen deliberately — true renews monthly, false deactivates at cycle end.
- Severityseverity
- MediumMEDIUMUsually survives review, but lowers your trust score or invites a manual look you would rather avoid.
- When it bitesphase
- Gates approvalapprovalGet this wrong and the brand or campaign is refused at registration.
- What is checkedobject
- campaign.auto_renewal
- Where it liveslayer
- OperationalOPERATIONAL
- How Ekas settles itdetectability
- DeterministicDETERMINISTIC
- Settled in code from the values you submitted. No model involved, no judgement call, same answer every time.
- What the fix involvesfailureClass
- Fix the fieldRETRY_FIELD
- A better value in the form fixes it. Ekas can rewrite it and re-check.
- Who requires itauthorities
- TCR
- When it appliesapplicabilityText
- Applies to every 10DLC registration.
Why this rule existsrationale
Left unconsidered, this setting either bills you monthly forever or silently deactivates a live campaign at the end of its cycle, taking your traffic down with no rejection to explain it. It is one of the few settings whose default choice has an ongoing cost either way.
How to fix itremediation
Set auto-renewal true for an ongoing programme so it does not deactivate mid-flight, and false only for a genuinely time-boxed campaign you intend to end.
A compliant exampleexample
Ongoing marketing programme → autoRenewal: true.
Rules you will hit next
Other operational rules at the same severity. A registration is judged as a whole, not rule by rule.
OPS-032A help request containing a stop-word is not an opt-outMediumMEDIUMOPS-042Somebody has to own revocations that arrive in conversationMediumMEDIUMOPS-050The opt-out confirmation is worth sending inside five minutesMediumMEDIUMOPS-051Only ask which messages to stop when there is more than one kindMediumMEDIUMOPS-057Log the sends you did not makeMediumMEDIUMOPS-062An opted-out consumer must be able to come backMediumMEDIUM
OPS-161 is one of 139 operational rules in the 915-rule 10DLC registry. Free to cite under CC BY 4.0.