Software Integration Services and API

The 5c SMS API enables messaging directly from your software. Integrate notifications into your scheduling software, confirm appointments automatically through reply webhooks or automatically schedule marketing campaigns.

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Looking to bring messaging to your application but you are not a developer? Our Software Integration Service brings our developers to you to build a custom integration with your software for you. Our developers can integrate the messaging with most open source or custom built platforms.

Integrations can be built to:

Send or schedule single and bulk messages.
Check and report on message delivery statuses.
Receive replies to your messages.
Process messages to your Virtual Mobile Number.
Check your account balance and recharge.
Much more...

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Our HTTP API

The 5c SMS API allows programmers and developers to connect directly to our gateway. Connect to the service with a HTTP POST or GET request, which is available from most programming environments. Our API provides comprehensive access to SMS, email, inbound messages, and domain management.

SMS API

• Send SMS messages
• Schedule messages
• Unicode & emoji support
• Bulk sending
• Delivery tracking
• Message history

Email API

• Send transactional email
• HTML & plain text
• Custom sender domains
• Delivery tracking

Inbox API

• Retrieve inbound SMS
• Two-way messaging
• Message pagination
• Contact information

Webhooks

• Delivery notifications
• Inbound message alerts
• Balance notifications
• Real-time updates

Send SMS Example

Request

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curl -X POST https://www.5centsms.com.au/api/v5/sms \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
  "key-secret": "Paste Key Secret here",
  "key-id": "Paste Key ID here",
  "sender": "0404123123",
  "to": "Paste recipient number here",
  "message": "Hello World"
}'

Response

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{
	"error": "",
	"messages": [{
		"destination": "61412345678",
		"id": "65abc123def456...",
		"status": 1011,
		"status_text": "Sending...",
		"credits": 1
	}]
}

Webhooks - Real-Time Notifications

Webhooks allow you to receive real-time notifications about events in your 5c SMS account. Instead of polling our API for updates, we'll send HTTP POST requests to your specified URL when events occur.

Delivery Webhooks

Receive notifications when your SMS messages are delivered, failed, or delayed. Perfect for tracking campaign success and handling failures.

Payload includes:

Message ID
Delivery status
Timestamp
Network information
Destination number

Inbound Message Webhooks

Get notified instantly when someone replies to your messages or sends a message to your Virtual Mobile Number.

Payload includes:

Message ID
Sender number
Message text
Timestamp
Virtual number (if applicable)

Balance Webhooks

Receive alerts when your account balance drops below a specified threshold, ensuring you never run out of credits unexpectedly.

Payload includes:

Current balance
Threshold amount
Account ID
Timestamp

Short Message Peer-to-Peer (SMPP)

5c SMS also supports SMPP, the standard protocol used by many messaging applications. SMPP enables direct integration with legacy messaging applications as well as bulk or large scale messaging. Our SMPP API is bi-directional, enabling sending and receiving messages, as well as delivery updates.

SMPP Features:

High-throughput message delivery
Two-way messaging support
Delivery receipt notifications
Persistent connections for reliability

Ready to integrate messaging into your application? Contact us now for a quote for custom integration, or do it yourself through our API.

Software Integration Services and API