How to Monitor Skype Usage

Monitor Skype Usage

Most Skype users who are entrepreneurs are most likely to buy more credits or get subscriptions for their Skype usage. Tracking their personal usage and their employees’ may be an extra baggage for them to handle. If you share the same dilemma, the good news is that there are easy ways to monitor Skype usage.

Call and SMS history

View your call history to see a list of all your paid-for calls and SMS/text messages. Paid-for calls are your calls placed to traditional phone numbers like landline or mobile numbers from your Skype account. Remember that the calls you made while you have a current subscription will show cost as zero. To view your call and text history, sign in to your account and click View Usage History. Should you need a report for billing purposes, you can also export a history-usage report.

Credits and subscription history

To view all subscriptions and credits you purchased, sign in to your account with an internet browser or from your Skype window, click Skype then select Account. When your account window opens, browse under the Account details section and click on Billing & payments. Once directed to the Payment settings page, select Purchase history to view the date and cost of your specific purchase.  You can also download a printable version of the invoice for each purchase that you made to help you in your paperwork.

History view as Skype Manager

If you’re one of those who have a Skype Manager account, you can also view the history of your purchase and allocation and download the invoices for the other Skype accounts that you manage. You can do this by logging in to your Skype Manager account, click on Reports and Purchase History. Calls and text messages for every individual account that you handle can also be seen in their activity history.

These are just some of the common ways to monitor your Skype costs. Surely, there are a lot of other methods that can be discovered by Skype users like you along the way. Once you’ve familiarized yourself in the method of monitoring you want to apply to your organization, it’s time to discover other ways on how Skype can be beneficial to your business.

Supertintin is one of the applications you can use with Skype to record Skype voice and video calls. This Skype recorder application is a very helpful tool for you to keep track and have important meetings or conversations handy and ready to be played anytime you need it.

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