Overview

Simply send a SMS through the Vonage platform. Or get some insights on phonenumbers, a nice way to check id a given phonenumber exists. And offcourse, check your current Vonage account balance.

Documentation

Description

Use the Vonage services to send a SMSText or to get number insight on two levels (basic/standard). And you can retrieve the current Vonage account balance. 

Typical usage scenario

• Do you need to send a SMS from your Mendix application? Use it as an extra channel to communicate with your customers. Or use it to send a secret code to your customer they need to use to identify themselve. The sky is the limit ;-)
• Do you want to validate a phonenumber? Do you want to know the carrier of the phonenumber? Or do you want to see if it is using roaming of do you need to know if a phonenumber has been ported to another carrier? There enough scenarios out there!
• Do you want to get the international phonenumber when you only have the country code and local phonenumber? You can!

Features and limitations

• Send SMSText from your Mendix application
• Get number insight on phone number. It has two levels of insight: Basic and Standard.
• Check your current Vonage account balance.

Dependencies

• None. No Java code used, just plain Mendix flows.

Installation

• Import the module to your project.
• Use the snippet SNP_SMSText_Complete to get an overview of sent SMS.

Configuration 

• Get a Vonage account.
• Get your API-key and API-secret for your account.
• Use the API-key and API-secret in the constants APIKey and APISecret.

Usage

• Sending SMS: SendSMSText
• Basic number insight: GetBasicNumberInsight (free of charge!)
• Standard number insight: GetStandardNumberInsight
• Account balance: GetAccountBalance
• See the examples in the examples folder.

For the NumberInsights options you can use a phonenumber in international format (+31600000000) but also a local format (like 06 00000000) in combination with a country code (like NL). A nice way to get the international format for sending SMS.