SMS Channel Overview

Novu can be used to deliver sms messages to your customers using a unified delivery API. You can easily integrate your favorite sms provider using the built-in integration store.

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Configuring SMS providers

When creating a SMS provider integration you will be asked to provide additional fields alongside the provider-specific credentials:

• From - Will be displayed as the sender of the SMS

Additional credentials can be API key, username, password or other provider specific credentials.

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Sending SMS Overrides

The overrides field supports a sms property and from, to, content field overrides. This allows you to send a message to a different recipient, from a different sender, or with a different content.

import { Novu } from '@novu/node';

const novu = new Novu('<NOVU_SECRET_KEY>');

novu.trigger('<WORKFLOW_TRIGGER_IDENTIFIER>', {
  to: {
    subscriberId: '<SUBSCRIBER_ID>',
  }
  overrides: {
    sms: {
      to: '+123012345678',
      from: 'Novu Team',
      content: 'This SMS message is from overrides'
    },
  },
});

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Using different SMS integration

In Novu integration store, multiple SMS channel type provider integrations can be active at the same time. But only one provider integration can be primary at a time. This primary integration will be used as a provider to deliver the SMS by default. If you want to use a different active provider integration then you can use the integrationIdentifier sms overrides field.

If there are 4 active SMS integrations with these identifiers:-

1. twilio-abcdef
2. twilio-ghijkl
3. firetext-abcdef
4. infobip-abcdef

Here, if twilio-abcdef is primary integration and you want to use infobip-abcdef with this trigger then you can use integrationIdentifier sms overrides field as below:-

• Node.js

import { Novu } from '@novu/node';

const novu = new Novu('<NOVU_SECRET_KEY>');

novu.trigger('<WORKFLOW_TRIGGER_IDENTIFIER>', {
  to: {
    subscriberId: '<SUBSCRIBER_ID>',
  },
  overrides: {
    sms: {
      integrationIdentifier: 'infobip-abcdef',
    },
  },
});

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Common errors

Common errors and reason for these errors while sending sms messages using Novu.

1. Subscriber does not have a configured channel.
   • if the from field is missing / null / undefined.