Schedule Recharge every 30 days

Question

I had a problem yesterday cos my credit ran out, which is normal for a pre-paid, but I have a scheduled recharge on the 9th every month, and although I still had credit left, my credit ended on the 8th, as october has 31 days, not the 30 days the credit expires in. so I had no credit for the day. Would it be possible to make a schedule Recharge every 30 days, instead of the once a month? as it is now.

Answer 1

Two amendments to my previous post: Firstly, although there are a range of options for addressing the 30-day-recharge-problem perhaps the best one would be to have credit expire on multiples of calendar months instead of every X days. So, for example, your Cap Encore $30 expires in "1 month"; the Simplicity $30 expires in "2 months". So too for Plus Packs (expiry in "1 month"). One reason why that might be desirable is many third party usage monitoring apps calculate rollover dates on a monthly basis rather than a "Every X days" basis. Of course they do this because most Telcos around the world figure it on a monthly (calendar) basis. I use Telstra 24x7 (and the widget is great, although it could improve) but I'd also like to use other usage monitoring apps.
Secondly, I now see that there is at least one complete workaround solution for us users. For I now see that Plus Packs (except for International Roaming Browse Plus Pack) can be purchased via SMS. So we should be able to have the following soluton: Set up an "Every X Days" SMS schedule using an SMS App like Handset for the Basic Plan and Plus Packs. Set the Basic Plan to recharge at a particular time of day, then do the Plus Packs 10 minutes later.
Note that at the moment when you recharge the "30 day expiry", for both the Basic Plan and the Plus Packs, it is actually set to be 30 days plus 12 hours. You can confirm this by examining your expiry date/times in Telstra 24x7 or the online Mobile Handset Account (https://m.telstra.com/wsc/accountDetails.mml) (make sure to surf via 3G not Wifi).
That feels like a testimony to a clever Telstra programmer who thought things through when being handed down the (not obviously) ridiculous "30 day expiry" policy from above. That 12 hour window allows us to use a third party SMS app, like Handset, to perform a "Every X days" schedule without having to worry about losing credit due to timing issues. Thanks clever Telstra programmer!