Stop Sending SMS to Contact – Help Center

The Stop Sending SMS to Contact command allows you to unsubscribe an existing SMS contact from an SMS Sender Code or create an opt out for any Phone number regardless of subscription. The command is used to remove Contacts who no longer wish to receive SMS messages or prevent sending to other Phones that are not currently subscribed. The command requires the following arguments: Command, Realm, Password, Phone Number, and Sender Code.

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

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

Example

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

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

Successful results return:

SUCCESS: Stopping message to phone was successful

Results

The Stop Sending SMS to Contact command outputs either a SUCCESS or FAILURE message.

Success

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

SUCCESS: Stopping message to phone was successful

Failure

The command will fail if a subscription does not exist, 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=smsstopsubscribersend c=smsstopsubscribersend
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 contacts. 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]