Text messages
If you want to start sending text messages to new hires or colleagues, then you will need to signup with Twilio and get a number there.
- Sign up at Twilio if you haven't yet.
- Go to https://www.twilio.com/console/phone-numbers and click on the red 'plus' icon.
- Pick a number you like and purchase it. Make sure it allows text messages.
- Go to https://www.twilio.com/console/project/settings
- You can take the
account_sid
andapi key
from there and add those to your environment variables or .env file.
Example variables:
ini
TWILIO_FROM_NUMBER=+XXXXXXXXX
TWILIO_ACCOUNT_SID=ACXXXXXXXXX
TWILIO_AUTH_TOKEN=XXXXXXXXX