I live in Australia and I have a paid Twilio account.
Quoting the Twilio guide
Each phone number has two configurable webhooks:
Voice Request URL for incoming phone calls
Messaging Request URL for incoming SMS or MMS messages
I can only find a primary and secondary message handler. On my Phone Numbers page it says my capabilities are Voice, SMS and MMS. If I click on the phone number It opens an Active Numbers page that say Voice is unavailable for this phone number. What am I missing?
You've got to have separate number for voice and SMS in Australia. You have to purchase one for voice and another for SMS.
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i am using twilio messaging service in my webapp. Here, each phone number have its own messaging service. I want to associate all phone numbers to 1 messaging service. Is it possible to send and receive messages on each phone number using 1 messaging service?
Twilio developer evangelist here.
According to this article:
A Twilio Messaging Service can contain up to 400 Twilio message senders by default, including phone numbers, short codes, Alpha Sender ID, and WhatsApp senders.
And if you need more, you can contact support.
How do you import contacts into Twilio SMS (phone numbers for texting)? This is so simple yet nothing in this app I can find lets you import contacts, please help!
Also how do you know the phone number you have for a contact is a Whatsapp number?
Is there software that identifies the Whatsapp numbers from a list of phone numbers that are mostly landlines but a few are cell or other type numbers that are registered on Whatsapp?
Twilio developer evangelist here.
Twilio does not store your contacts, so there is no way to import contacts. When you want to send an SMS message you provide the number you want to send the message to, the Twilio number you are sending from and the body of the message. There is no need for a contact.
Within Twilio Notify, which is a way to send bulk notifications, you can create Bindings. A Binding is a resource that binds an identity to an address and an address type, for example an phone number for an SMS or an APNS device token for push notifications on iOS. Once you have a number of bindings stored, you can send a notification to them.
Also how do you know the phone number you have for a contact is a WhatsApp number?
When using the WhatsApp API to send messages, you must receive explicit opt-in from your users that you can contact them via WhatsApp. So, you should not try to search through existing contact numbers to find out whether they are also a WhatsApp number, instead, you should get your user's consent to send to their WhatsApp number and record the number then.
We have twilio's paid account, using rest api when we are sending messages to Indian mobile number's from twilio's US number in some phone's we are receiving with twilio's number but in some phone's we are getting with 51465.
Any help will be appreciated.
Twilio developer evangelist here.
I recommend checking out the Twilio SMS guidelines for India. We also have a page on limitations on sending SMS to Indian mobile devices.
The key point in these resources is:
The sender IDs are changed to the format “XX-NNNNNN”
The sender IDs are altered before SMS messages are delivered to end
users. End users are very likely to see a sender ID composed of 2
letters followed by 6 numbers instead of the Sender ID you specified.
Due to the sender ID change, SMS recipients are unable to send a reply
back to your Twilio phone number.
India does not support two way messaging because it changes the sender ID. We cannot control that right now.
I'm using the code from the documentation to send a SMS to a mexican number and it works.
But the sms is being sent from another phone number other than the one I purchased. I want to be able to send back a reply and visualize it on the Twilio Console. I have tried sending a sms directly to my number and I can see it there, but if I send a reply to the phone number that sent me the sms a get nothing. How can I send an SMS from the number I purchased?
Twilio developer evangelist here.
It is likely that you are sending SMS messages to a country that doesn't support maintaining the sender ID. Check out the SMS guidelines for the country you are sending to to see if this should be supported or not.
All my users are in the United States. When someone signs up on my website they enter their cell phone number. Can I use the user's own cell phone number to send a SMS text message via twilio?
I was reading the twilio documentation about subaccounts and I couldn't determine if this was possible or not. They make it sound like you can only send texts using a narrow range of phone numbers.
Twilio evangelist here.
Today, you can only send text messages from phone numbers you've provisioned from Twilio. We've got a FAQ article that describes why.
You can make phone calls from either a Twilio provisioned phone number, or a verified phone number.
Hope that helps.