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Africa's Talking

Profile Requirements

To deliver a message to a recipient over Africa's Talking SMS, Courier must be provided the recipient's SMS-compatible telephone number. This value should be included in the recipient profile as phone_number.

JSON
// Recipient Profile
{
"phone_number": "+27765559758"
}

Override

You can use a provider override to replace what we send to Africa's Talking SMS API. For example, you can add a registered short code or alphanumberic from you Africa's Talking SMS Application to your request:

JSON
{
"event": "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ",
"recipient": "abc123",
"profile": {
"phone_number": "+27765559758"
},
"override": {
"africastalking-sms": {
"body": {
"from": "12345"
}
}
}
}

Everything inside of override.africastalking-sms will replace what we send to Africa's Talking SMS API. You can see all the available options by visiting Africa's Talking SMS docs.

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