How to Connect Infobip as Data Destination
The integration will allow you to notify your customers about the completion of registration, and confirmation of the order, as well as make SMS in response to any actions of buyers. This will allow you to efficiently automate workflows as efficiently as possible with the various services you use and save a lot of time.
Let's go through the entire Infobip setup steps together!
Navigation:
1. What will integration with Infobip do?
2. How to connect Infobip account to ApiX-Drive?
3. How can set up the selected action to transfer data to Infobip?
4. An example of the data that will be sent to your Infobip.
5. Auto-update and update interval.
Once you've set up a Data Source system, such as Google Sheets, you can set up Infobip as a Data Destination.
To do this, click "Start configuring Data Destination".
Select the system as Data Destination. In this case, you must select Infobip.
Next, you need to specify the action - "Send SMS".
The next step is to select the Infobip account from which will get the data.
If there are no accounts connected to the system, click "Connect account".
Next, you need to enter the values, where:
- Base URL - the URL of your Infobip, where there is an insert "api". For example, xxxx.api.infobip.com
- API Key - key in Infobip. The API key can be found in the "Developers" section. Copy the existing key or generate your own. After pasting it in the "API Key" field.
After filling, click save and reload the page, if necessary.
When the connected account is displayed in the "active accounts" list, select it.
Attention! If your account is in the "inactive accounts" list, check your access to this account!
Now you need to assign variables from the Data Source to the Infobip fields you need.
It is necessary to specify a field from which the recipient’s phone number will be get.
Also, you need to specify the alpha sender name that you have registered with the Infobip service.
In the "Message" field, you can use system variables such as time, date, year, month, and day, as well as variables from the data source system, in this case, Google Sheets. If necessary, you can write the data manually.
Now you can see how the future SMS message will look, according to the selected data.
To check the correctness of the settings - click "Send test data to Infobip" and go to your Infobip to check the result.
If you want to change the settings - click "Edit" and you will go back one step.
If everything suits you, click "Next".
This completes the Data Destination system setup!
Now you can start choosing the update interval and enabling auto-update.
To do this, click "Enable update".
On the main screen, click on the gear icon to select the required update interval or set up scheduled launch. To start the connection by time, select scheduled start and specify the desired time for the connection update to be triggered, or add several options at once when you need the connection to be triggered.
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 setup of Infobip as a Data Destination! See how easy it is!?
Now don't worry, ApiX-Drive will do everything on its own!