Send SMS API

sendSMS

Synopsis

This API function sends an SMS containing text from the specified account and shortcode to a recipient’s mobile number. If “Enforce Campaign Check” is turned ON, then this function will require the campaign reference ID of the messaging campaign that the recipient’s phone number is subscribed into to be passed inside the campaignref node.

Request: XML

<REQUEST>
    <ACTION>sendSMS</ACTION>
    <API_KEY>apiKey</API_KEY>
    <OPERATORID>OPERATORID</OPERATORID>
    <TO>Recipient phone number</TO>
    <FROM>shortcode</FROM>
    <CAMPAIGNREF>CampaignReferenceID</CAMPAIGNREF>
    <TEXT>SMS Text message text</TEXT>
</REQUEST>

Request Parameters

Term	Mandatory/Optional	Description
ACTION	Mandatory	This is the name of the function you want to execute with the API.
API_KEY	Mandatory	Random key that is assigned to an account that can be used for authorization instead of USER/PASS. You can find and regenerate this key on the ‘API Settings’ page.
CAMPAIGNREF	Mandatory if “Enforce Campaign Check” IS enabled. Optional otherwise.	Depending on your API settings, you may be required to subscribe users to a campaign first before sending them messages. If you are required to subscribe to a user first, then a valid Campaign Reference is required. This would be the campaign reference ID (string) to which the user is subscribed.
FROM	Mandatory	A valid shortcode or longcode for the sender address(string). When sending to a list of many numbers using the ‘sendSavedContent’ function and if the ‘FROM’ value cannot be used for a certain country, then the system will re-write the sender address to use a valid shortcode for those numbers.
TEXT	Mandatory	The SMS message limit is 160 characters(string).
TO	Mandatory	This is the message recipient’s phone number in an international format.
OPERATORID	Optional	Carrier ID for the Phone Number

Response Parameters

Param Name	Presence	Description
STATUS	Always	“Success” or “Failure”.
TRACKINGID	Success response only	Transaction ID for the request. Use it to match the postbacks received for this API request.
TO	Always	Destination phone number with country code.
ERRORCODE	Error response only	Error code associated with the error.
ERRORINFO	Error response only	Error message explaining the error code.

Request Example: XML

<REQUEST>
    <ACTION>sendSMS</ACTION>
    <API_KEY>xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx</API_KEY>
    <TO>11111111111</TO>
    <FROM>00000</FROM>
    <CAMPAIGNREF>Campaign123</CAMPAIGNREF>
    <TEXT>Hello Jerry, Greetings from Marc</TEXT>
</REQUEST>

Response Example: Success

<RESPONSE>
    <STATUS>Success</STATUS>
    <TRACKINGID>xxxxxxxxxxxx</TRACKINGID>
    <TO>11111111111</TO>
 </RESPONSE>

Response Example: Failure

<RESPONSE>
    <STATUS>Failure</STATUS>
    <ERRORCODE>E713</ERRORCODE>
    <ERRORINFO>There is billing problem on your account</ERRORINFO>
    <TO>11111111111</TO>
</RESPONSE>

Postback Notification

When the SMS is sent we will generate a Postback notification. When we get an SMS delivery receipt we will generate another Postback notification. Not all carriers provide SMS delivery receipts. For more details please visit the SMS MT Delivery Status section of the Delivery Report Postback documentation.

General Error Codes

Code	Description
E100	Invalid request. Make a valid request via GET/POST/XML with all the required variables.
E104	User Authentication Failed.
E105	This account has no API rights.
E106	You can call API every X seconds.
E107	This account has no rights to use this action.
E108	XML Parse error: $error.
E109	API not activated.
E112	IP was not whitelisted. API call rejected.
E113	Set throughput exceeded for this API action. API call rejected.
E114	Phone number is blacklisted. API call rejected.
E120	Account has reached the API request limit.
E503	Internal error.

Related Error Codes

Code	Description
E110	Invalid receiver number.
E111	Invalid Sender.
E111	Invalid Sender to $country-name.
E628	Operator Not supported.
E712	The ‘text’ is required.
E713	There is billing problem on your account.
E715	Number is not subscribed in this campaign
E718	The ‘campaignref’ is required
E721	Invalid campaignref