Auto-Reply

Telmetrics provides the ability to send an Auto-Reply message via SMS when someone texts your Tracking Number or Number Pool. Please note that the auto-reply message will only be sent once per 24 hour period.

This feature is enabled via the Number Resource, and can be configured during the provisioning of a Tracking Number, or applied later as an update.

Please note that this feature is enabled at the SMS-Routing level.

The following fields are used in this request, and must be passed in your request:

Field	Value
sms_routes -> route_type	Autoreply
sms_routes -> route -> autoreply_enabled	true/false - when true, the auto-reply message will be sent to anyone sending a text message to the Tracking Number/Number Pool. Note that an auto-reply message is only sent once per day.
sms_routes -> route -> autoreply_message	The content of the message that will be sent to anyone sending a text message to the Tracking Number/Number Pool

Using the end-point POST https://api.telmetrics.com/v3/api/groups/{groupid}/numbers, submit a request similar to the following to enable the SMS Auto-Reply feature on your Tracking Line when provisioning:

{
    "name": "SMS - Auto-Reply",
    "phone_number_request": {
        "match_type": "Tollfree"
    },
    "sms_routes": {
        "route_type": "Autoreply",
        "route": {
            "autoreply_enabled": true,
            "autoreply_message": "Thanks for texting us - we are currently only accepting phone calls on this number."
        }
    },
    "call_routes": {
        "route_type": "Basic",
        "route": {
            "termination_number": "4075552958"
        }
    }
}

Using the end-point PUT https://api.telmetrics.com/v3/api/numbers/{numberid}, submit a request similar to the following to enable the SMS-to-Chat feature on an existing tracking line:

{    
	"sms_routes": {
        "route_type": "Autoreply",
        "route": {
            "autoreply_enabled": true,
            "autoreply_message": "Thanks for texting us - we are currently only accepting phone calls on this number."
        }
    }
}

A successful post will result in the creation/update of a tracking number with SMS-To-Chat capabilities:

{
    "id": 8848979,
    "group_id": 11812328,
    "status": "Active",
    "phone_number": "8003979906",
    "created_datetime": "2018-07-06T15:23:17.403",
    "modified_datetime": "2018-07-06T15:41:02.96",
    "sms_routes": {
        "route_type": "Autoreply",
        "route": {
            "autoreply_enabled": true,
            "autoreply_message": "Thanks for texting us - we are currently only accepting phone calls on this number."
        }
    },
    "call_routes": {
        "route_type": "Basic",
        "route": {
            "id": 30703449,
            "termination_number": "4075552958"
        }
    }
}