How to send SMS messages with Africa's Talking

Setup guide for SMS notifications with Africa's Talking and Knock.

Knock integrates with Africa's Talking to send SMS notifications to your recipients.

Features

Knock link tracking
Per environment configuration
Sandbox mode

Getting started

You can create a new Africa's Talking channel in the dashboard under the Integrations > Channels section. From there, you'll need to configure the channel for each environment you have.

Channel configuration

The following channel settings should be configured per environment. Navigate to Integrations > Channels in your dashboard, select your Africa's Talking channel, then click "Manage configuration" under the environment that you'd like to configure.

Fields marked with an * are required.

Knock settings

Sandbox modeboolean

Whether to enable sandbox mode for your Africa's Talking channel.

Knock link trackingboolean

Whether to enable Knock link-click tracking.

Provider settings for Africa's Talking

API keystring*

The API key from Africa's Talking.

Usernamestring*

The application username from Africa's Talking.

Short codestring

The short code to send messages from.

Set optional per-environment conditions for this channel. These conditions are evaluated each time a workflow run encounters a step that uses this channel in the configured environment. If the conditions are not met, the step will be skipped.

Recipient data requirements

In order to send an SMS notification you'll need a valid phone_number property set on your recipient.