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Question:
Hi guys,
I would really appreciate some help. I am wanting to send an SMS in my Retool portal by using Clickatell's One API: (API Reference - Clickatell)
Essentially, our admin portal gets a QR code from the database associated with a particular delivery and I want to send that QR code to the customer's phone number.
Answer:
This sounds like perfect scenario for Retool Workflows:
- You'd create a RestAPI resource for Clickatell One API as instructed here. It looks like the authentication you'd use for Clickatell is the Bearer Token Auth
- You can now query the resource - here some examples what that would look like
- Next you' want to set up your workflow and have it triggered with a webhook - this will allow you to kick off the workflow whenever a certain event occurs
- In your workflow you'll now create the needed blocks to - run the query to have the QR code generated - get the customers phone number and - send the QR code to the customer via Clickatell's API