Send a Single Prepared SMS

In order to send a prepared SMS to a single recipient, you'll first have to make sure they exist in your system. Once you have their ID, you can send them the message which will also add them to the message's group. 

If you'd like, you can test with our Postman Collection here: Postman Collection

Prerequisites

Before you begin, make sure you have valid authorization credentials. Please see this page for more information.

The message needs to be set up ahead of time in Engage, as you need the messageID for this task. You will also need the contact's mobile number.

Procedure

In order to search for a contact or update their information, you will need to decide which identifier you'd like to use. We'll use their mobile number. If you already have the contact's recipientID (this is the same as user or contact ID), you can skip this step.

1. Use a POST request to check if the contact exists

You'll need the contactID from this call to send them a message.

'POST' \  'https://your-engage-domain.com/api/rest/contact/get' \
{
 "type":"MOBILE",
 "value":"48505606707"
}

<soapenv:Envelope
    xmlns:soapenv="https://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"
    xmlns:ecm="https://your-engage-domain.com/developer/ecmapi">
    <soapenv:Header/>
    <soapenv:Body>
        <ecm:contactGet>
            <identifier>
                <type>MOBILE</type>
                <value>48505606707</value>
            </identifier>
        </ecm:contactGet>
    </soapenv:Body>
</soapenv:Envelope>

2. Use a POST request to send the message

This method also automatically adds the user to the recipient group of the prepared message. While there is a space to include a TLS sender profile and attachment, these should only be used when sending emails and can therefore be left blank here.

POST' \
  'https://your-engage-domain.com/api/rest/message/sendSingle?messageId=23541&recipientId=33457' \
{
"parameters":
[]
}

<soapenv:Envelope
    xmlns:soapenv="https://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"
    xmlns:ecm="https://your-engage-domain.com/developer/ecmapi">
   <soapenv:Header/>
   <soapenv:Body>
      <ecm:messageSendSingle>
         <messageId>23541</messageId>
         <recipientId>33457</recipientId>
        <additionalContent>
         </additionalContent>
      </ecm:messageSendSingle>
   </soapenv:Body>
</soapenv:Envelope>

Conclusion

You should receive a 204 response, with no further information. This indicates the message has been sent. If there was a problem, you may receive a 400 response. 

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