Messaging API Update: Flexible Message Expiry Setting

Plivo has released an update to the Send Message API that lets you set a custom expiry interval for SMS messages. 

When customers send messages through Plivo, each message spends a short time in Plivo’s messaging queue before we forward it to a carrier. Typically, this time is in seconds; but, it may be longer due to messaging rate limits or an outage. 

All messages expire after three hours in the Plivo messaging queue. Some applications, however, such as one-time passwords used for two-factor authentication, demand faster expiry times. You now can set an expiry time to anywhere from five to 10,799 seconds by passing an expiry_time parameter to the Send Message API.