Read every balance, draft every country, approve in one pass
Your VirtualSMS, worked while you do something else: 5 reads to go through it, 1 write to change it, and a card in front of every one of those changes.
Open the balance. Check it against something else. Write the change. Move to the next one. That is the VirtualSMS afternoon nobody can hand off, and a companion does the whole pass and gives you back the batch, with nothing landing on a balance until you approve it.
What it can do is exactly what VirtualSMS exposes to an account you authorise and nothing beyond it: 6 operations, 5 reads and 1 write. In practice that means it can cancel a rental, and work across the balances, countries and messages.
The VirtualSMS API stops at VirtualSMS. A companion does not. The same run opens the customer's website, the supplier portal, the internal tool somebody built in 2019, because it is working the browser you are already signed into rather than calling in from outside it.
Does it read the balances or ask you for them?
5 of the 6 operations are reads.
Your account, not a guess at it: a companion can rent number, list services and list countries, and the full list below is the whole list, with nothing inferred from VirtualSMS's documentation.
The balances are what most of this inventory is about, alongside the countries. A companion can hold all 6 of these operations and forty open tabs in the same pass, which is how an afternoon of VirtualSMS admin becomes a queue you review.
- Rent Number
- List Services
- List Countries
- Get Balance
- Check Messages
Which balances wait for your approval?
The one write operation there is waits for you.
A companion can cancel a rental, and each one is staged on an approval card first: you see the balance, the field and the new value before it lands in VirtualSMS.
Nothing in VirtualSMS is sent, changed or deleted on your behalf without that click, and a rejected card leaves the balance exactly as it was. The gate is the same one on every surface, described at security.
- Cancel Rental
Does the balance sweep have to be asked for every time?
Yes.
Saved as a routine, the VirtualSMS balances pass runs at the hour you pick: the Monday sweep, the overnight refresh, the Friday check. Keep Awake holds the machine awake for the length of a run, so a scheduled pass finishes with the lid closed.
The operations playbook catalogues the other recurring shapes of the access reviews, the VirtualSMS balances sweep among them, and finished runs are published at real runs.
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