Add Phone to Sender Code – Help Center

The Add Phone to Sender Code command allows you to subscribe an existing SMS contact to an SMS Sender Code. The command is used for Contacts who do not also exist as email contacts and have no email address. The command requires the following arguments: Command, Realm, Password, Phone Number, and Sender Code.

api_web?r=myrealm&p=mypass&c=addphonetosendercode&phone=12065551212&sender_code=120162701555

The command is ‘addphonetosendercode', the realm is ‘myrealm’ and the password is ‘mypass’. The SMS contact with the matching phone number will be added to the sender code '120162701555'.

Example

Using addphonetosendercode with all commands and arguments (please note the command is wrapped for display purposes only):

api_web?r=myrealm&p=mypass&c=addphonetosendercode&phone=12065551212&sender_code=120162701555&group_name=mygroup

Successful results return:

SUCCESS: Adding phone to sender code was successful

Results

The Add Phone to Sender Code commands output either a SUCCESS or FAILURE message.

Success

The command success message returns the SUCCESS message. The result format is:

SUCCESS: Adding phone to sender code was successful

Failure

The command will fail if a subscription already exists, if the phone number is not found, or if an argument is invalid. The result format is:

FAILURE: [Reason]

Arguments

The command supports the following arguments:

Name	Req?	Description	Argument
Command	Yes	Defines the command to use.	cmd=addphonetosendercode c=addphonetosendercode
Realm	Yes	Name of the realm to run the command. This is required, and the command will fail if the realm and password do not match.	realm=[realm_name] r=[realm_name]
Password	Yes	Authentication code for API access. This is required, and the command will fail if the realm and password do not match.	pwd=[password] p=[password]
Phone	Yes	Numeric phone number for the contact. Do not include special characters (such as parenthesis or dash).	phone=[phone]
Sender Code	Yes	Sender Code representing the message sender. A Sender Code is either a short code or number. It represents the 'from' field when deploying an SMS. The message recipient will see this sender on their mobile device when a message is received.	sender_code=[sender_code]
Group Name		Group to associate Subscription for sending batch messages.	group_name=[group_name]