How to Connect MessageWhiz as Data Destination
The integration will allow you to send messages to MessageWhiz based on data from other systems. For example, you can notify your users about the completion of registration or confirmation of an order on the site, as well as send SMS in response to any actions of buyers. This will allow you to efficiently automate workflows and save a lot of time.
Let's go through the entire MessageWhiz setup steps together!
Navigation:
1. What will the integration with MessageWhiz do?
2. How do I connect my MessageWhiz account to ApiX-Drive?
3. How can I set up data transfer to MessageWhiz in the selected action?
4. An example of the data that will be sent to your MessageWhiz.
5. Auto-update and update interval.
Once you've set up a Data Source system, such as Google Sheets, you can set up MessageWhiz as a Data Destination.
To do this, click "Start configuring Data Destination".
Select the system as Data Destination. In this case, you must specify MessageWhiz.
Next, you need to specify the action "Send SMS".
The next step is to select the MessageWhiz account to which the data will be sent.
If there are no accounts connected to the ApiX-Drive system, click "Connect account".
In the window that opens, fill in the "API Key" field.
To do this, let's go to the personal account of MessageWhiz.
Go to the My Account section, copy the API KEY and paste it into the appropriate field in the ApiX-Drive system.
When the connected account is displayed in the "active accounts" list, select it.
Attention! If your account is in the "inactive accounts" list, check the correctness of the specified data!
Select an alpha sender name from the list that you have registered in the MessageWhiz service or enter it manually.
Now you need to specify the field where the recipient's phone number will be taken from.
In the "Message" field, you can use both system variables such as time, date, year, month, day, as well as variables from the data source system, in this case a Google Sheets spreadsheet.
You can combine these variables in any way you like. For example, manually write the text and add the order number from the Google Sheets column.
Now you can see how the future SMS message will look like, according to the selected data.
Click "Send test data to MessageWhiz" and an SMS message will be sent to the phone number specified in the test data.
Note! The MessageWhiz system only accepts phone number values without a leading + sign. Connection will work correctly if the phone number is specified without +.
In this regard, we have developed a formatting function that works automatically at the time of data transfer to MessageWhiz. That is, whatever value of the phone number you pass, we format it into the desired format. For example: a phone number came from the Data Source system +1-5748888888, we will automatically format it into this format 15748888888.
If you don't like something, click "Edit" and go back one step.
If everything suits you, click "Next" to continue the setup.
This completes the Data Destination system setup!
Now you can start choosing the update interval and enabling auto-update.
To do this, click "Enable auto-update".
On the main screen, click on the gear icon to select the required update interval or setup scheduled launch. To start the connection by time, select scheduled start and specify the desired time for the connection update will be started, or add several options at once when you need the connection will be started.
Attention! In order for the scheduled run to work at the specified time, the interval between the current time and the specified time must be more than 5 minutes. For example, you select the time 12:10 and the current time is 12:08 - in this case, the automatic update of the connection will occur at 12:10 the next day. If you select the time 12:20 and the current time is 12:13 - the auto-update of the connection will work today and then every day at 12:20.
To make the current connection transmit data only after another connection, check the box "Update connection only after start other connection" and specify the connection after which the current connection will be started.
To enable auto-update, switch the slider to the position as shown in the picture.
To force the connection, click on the arrow icon.
This completes the setting of MessageWhiz as a Data Destination! See how easy it is!?
Now don't worry, ApiX-Drive will do everything on its own!