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Notification: SMS

This reference explains the Notification: SMS task.

The SMS task sends a text message to a specified phone number. You can specify multiple phone numbers, and the text messages will be sent to all the specified phone numbers.

Task settings

The following screenshot shows the configuration of the SMS task:

SMS task configuration
  • Task name: Specify the name of the task.

  • Phone number: Type or select phone number from the data payload. For example, BillToContact.MobilePhone . You can specify multiple phone numbers, and the messages will be sent to all numbers.

  • SMS message: Enter the SMS message template. For example:
    Hello {{Data.BillToContact.FirstName}}, your recent payment for subscription {{Data.Subscription.Id}} has failed. Please update your payment method at https://www.sampleComp.com/account/123456/payment-methods-update to avoid service disruption.
  • Task tags (Optional): Specify a task tag that will be used for searching and filtering tasks via the UI or API.

  • Paths of data payload values to delete (Optional): You can delete data that is not needed to reduce task payload size and improve performance. The payload path is in the format of Data.<objectName> .

  • Concurrency Mode: Controls whether Workflow processes tasks in a single or multi-threaded manner for this task type. Select Sequential to single-thread, or Parallel to allow multi-threaded processing.

    If you select Parallel, the Max Concurrency setting controls the maximum number of threads for this task type that can be utilized. You can specify a value from 1 up to the allowed maximum for this task type. A value of 1 behaves the same as Sequential processing.