Link Mobility Message Gateway
Patriot supports sending SMS messages via your Link Mobility account. Using the Link Mobility Common platform, allows a high-capacity, high availability sending of SMS text messages. Messages are free for the end user to receive (certain countries only). An SMS text message is limited by 140 bytes which means with the most common character encoding, GSM 7 - is 160 characters. Unicode characters are not supported. Common API tracks the status of each message until it is delivered via a delivery report.
Prerequisites
- The LinkMobility module must be registered
Link Mobility Prerequisites
Please have username, password, platform id, platform parter id setup in your account by Link Mobility support team. If you need Delivery Reports enabled, please provide Link Mobility support team with your callback url and they will provide you with a Gate Id.
Patriot Task Setup
System Menu Item > Tasks > Task Settings
Please read TASK SETTINGS for general information about adding tasks and general task settings.
Callback Enabled If enabled, please ensure that you have an opened port in your firewall to allow request from Link Mobility platform to enter through your system. Enter an external url with the port in the Callback URL field, e.g. http://[your external url]:80.
Require delivery receipts If enabled, a delivery report will be sent to the Callback URL for each message sent by Link Mobility task.
Gate Id A Gate Id is required when requesting a delivery report from the Link Mobility gateway. This can be supplied by the Link Mobility support team.
Base URL You will get a base URL assigned to you when your account is created. The default URL is https://eu.linkmobility.io. If this is not working, please contact Link Mobility SMS support team for your base url.
Platform Partner Id Required and can be supplied by the Link Mobility SMS support team.
Platform Id Required and can be supplied by the Link Mobility SMS support team.
Source Required. This is the source number from where the message should be sent.
Source Type Format of source number, default to MSISDN.
Destination Type Format of destination number to send to, default to MSISDN.
Options for Source Type and Destination Type:
- SHORTNUMBER: Shortnumber (1-14 digits depending on country).
- ALPHANUMERIC: Up to 11 valid GSM characters. Some operators and some handsets don’t accept all characters. Safe characters are a-z, A-Z, 0-9.
- MSISDN: a mobile number in international format, starting with + and including country code.