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sendSMS
Synopsis:
This API function sends an SMS containing text from the specified account and shortcode to a recipient’s mobile number. If the aggregator allows masking longcode/sender with some brand or string, from_mask can be set in the API. from_mask is limited to 11 characters beyond which it will be cut-off. 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>
<FROM_MASK>senderName</FROM_MASK>
<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 |
| FROM_MASK | Optional | Only carriers in certain countries allow Alphanumeric senders. Not supported in the USA. |
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>xxxxxx-xxxxx-xx</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 shortcode. |
| 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 |