Getting started with SMS on Messages API
There are a few things to set up in order to get started with sending SMS with the Messages API.
Prerequisites
Before sending your first SMS message, you'll need to:
Account settings
In your Developer Dashboard account, on the Settings page, you need to set the SMS settings to ‘Messages API’. This is to ensure that any webhooks related to SMS messages are received in the expected format for the API that you select.
Create an Application
You will need to create a Vonage Application in order to generate credentials for authentication and to contain various settings related to usage of the API.
You can read more about creating a Vonage Application in this document.
Configure Webhooks
The Vonage Application is also where you configure your webhooks.
The Messages API provides webhooks for Inbound messages and also for Message Status.
You can read more about configuring your webhooks in this document.