Using Notify with SMS
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- UpdatedAug 1, 2024
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Send and receive SMS messages using Notify.
Notify stores inbound and outbound SMS messages in the Notify Messages [notify_message] table.
Notify supports sending concatenated SMS messages. Messages that exceed 160 characters, or 70 unicode characters, are split into multiple messages. This may affect your total telephony cost because each message can incur a cost. Some mobile carriers, such as Sprint, do not support concatenated SMS messages.
To send SMS messages to an individual recipient, use the Notify API sendSMS method. This method takes one recipient as an input parameter. You can also use the send SMS workflow activity.
To send SMS messages to one or more recipients, use the Notify API sendBulkSMS method. This method takes a list as an input parameter and uses one API call to send multiple messages. Include the list of phone numbers in an array in the API call. This method improves performance by streamlining platform checks and Notify number validation.
The Notify-Twilio integration provides programmable SMS outbound message status tracking with Status Callbacks. These callbacks can be helpful to see if a message has been delivered, failed, or ran into some other delivery issues.