Delivery Reports

Prerequisites

To get started, you need a Plivo account — sign up with your work email address if you don’t have one already. To receive incoming messages, you must have a Plivo phone number that supports SMS; you can rent numbers from the Numbers page of the Plivo console or by using the Numbers API. If this is your first time using Plivo APIs, follow our instructions to set up a .NET development environment and a web server and safely expose that server to the internet.

Here’s how the process works for inbound messages.

Inbound

Create a .NET controller

Navigate to the Controllers directory, create a controller called Deliveryreport.cs, and paste into it this code.

using System;
using Plivo;
using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc;


namespace demo.Controllers
{
    public class Deliveryreport : Controller
    {
        public IActionResult Index()
        {
            String from_number = Request.Form["From"];
            String to_number = Request.Form["To"];
            String text = Request.Form["Text"];

            Console.WriteLine("Message received - From: {0}, To: {1}, Text: {2}", from_number, to_number, text);
    
            return this.Content("Report Received");
        }
    }
}

Run the project and you should see your basic server application in action at http://localhost:5001/deliveryreport/.

Expose your local server to the internet.

Create an application

Associate the code you created with Plivo by creating a Plivo application. Visiting Messaging > Applications and click Add New Application. You can also use Plivo’s Application API.

Give your application a name — we called ours Delivery Reports. Enter the server URL you want to use (for example https://<yourdomain>.com/delivery_report/) in the Message URL field and set the method to POST. Click Create Application to save your application.

Assign a Plivo number to your application

Navigate to the Numbers page and select the phone number you want to use for this application. From the Application Type drop-down, select XML Application. From the Plivo Application drop-down, select Receive SMS (the name we gave the application). Click Update Number to save.

Test

Send an SMS message to your Plivo number using a regular mobile phone. Plivo will send a request to your Message URL with the parameters listed in the Messaging documentation.

You can view the details posted by Plivo by looking at your terminal.

Prerequisites

To get started, you need a Plivo account — sign up with your work email address if you don’t have one already. To receive incoming messages, you must have a Plivo phone number that supports SMS; you can rent numbers from the Numbers page of the Plivo console or by using the Numbers API. If this is your first time using Plivo APIs, follow our instructions to set up a .NET development environment and a web server and safely expose that server to the internet.

Here’s how the process works for outbound messages.

Outbound

Create a .NET controller

Navigate to the Controllers directory, create a controller called Deliveryreport.cs, and paste into it this code.

using System;
using Plivo;
using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc;


namespace demo.Controllers
{
    public class Deliveryreport : Controller
    {
        public IActionResult Index()
        {
            String from_number = Request.Form["From"];
            String to_number = Request.Form["To"];
            String status = Request.Form["Status"];

            Console.WriteLine("Message received - From: {0}, To: {1}, Status: {2}", from_number, to_number, status);

            return this.Content("Report Received");
        }
    }
}

Run the project and you should see your basic server application in action at http://localhost:5001/deliveryreport/.

Expose your local server to the internet.

Test

To test delivery reports on outbound messages, send an SMS message to a mobile phone using this code.

var plivo = require('plivo');
(function main() {
    'use strict';
    var client = new plivo.Client("<auth_id>", "<auth_token>");
    client.messages.create(
      { 
          src: "<sender_id>", 
          dst: "<destination_number>",
          text: "Hello, this is a sample text from Plivo",
          url: "https://<ngrok_url>/delivery_report/"
      }
      ).then(function (response) {
        console.log(response);
    });
})();

Replace the phone number placeholders with actual phone numbers in E.164 format (for example, +12025551234) and url with the ngrok-generated URL.

Plivo will send a request to your url with the parameters listed in the Messaging documentation.

You can view the details posted by Plivo by looking at your terminal.