Twilio is the SMS provider: http://twilio.com/
Once you created your account:
- You need to get your API credentials, you'll find them at https://www.twilio.com/console/project/settings
- You need to reserve one phone number which will send and receive messages.
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Create a phone number (or two if you have a staging environment)
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Share it with your volunteers so they'll know you will trigger them through it
- If you wish to accelerate the number of voice calls sent per second, you need to ask your account manager for more "Twilio Voice API CPS". By default, RedCall send 5 calls per second.
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Set
TWILIO_ACCOUNT_SID
with your Twilio account SID -
Set
TWILIO_AUTH_TOKEN
with your api token