{"id":146,"date":"2025-04-16T10:12:37","date_gmt":"2025-04-16T10:12:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/documentation.iqonic.design\/kivicare-laravel\/?p=146"},"modified":"2025-06-03T06:11:44","modified_gmt":"2025-06-03T06:11:44","slug":"how-to-enable-whatsapp-and-sms-notifications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/documentation.iqonic.design\/kivicare-laravel\/how-to-enable-whatsapp-and-sms-notifications\/","title":{"rendered":"How to enable Whatsapp and SMS notifications?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"nolwrap\">\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\">Steps to Configure WhatsApp and SMS Notifications<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Setup Twilio for SMS<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>You can sign up for a free Twilio trial account here &#8211;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.twilio.com\/try-twilio\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Create Twilio Account<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>To get the Twilio CLI connected to your account. Visit &#8211;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.twilio.com\/console\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Twilio SMS portal<\/a>&nbsp;and you\u2019ll find your unique Account SID and Auth Token to provide to the CLI.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Copy&nbsp;<strong>Account SID<\/strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong>Auth Token<\/strong>&nbsp;and paste it to specific configuration section inside your admin panel<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>(Optional): To get your first Twilio phone number for sending sms. Visit ,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.twilio.com\/console\/phone-numbers\/search\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">head on over to the console<\/a>&nbsp;and you will get phone number to send SMS if you don&#8217;t want any particular number to send message use your SID. Important Note: Receiver(kivicare) Phone\/contact No must be in Twilio specific format ([+][country code]&nbsp;[mobile number]&nbsp;) , Please Refer&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.twilio.com\/docs\/api\/errors\/21211\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>&nbsp;for more details<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>Navigate to&nbsp;<strong>Settings<\/strong>&nbsp;from sidebar menu of your admin panel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Enable WhatsApp Notifications<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Under&nbsp;<strong>&#8220;Settings&#8221;<\/strong>, find the&nbsp;<strong>Integration<\/strong>&nbsp;option.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Toggle switch of Enable Whatsapp Integration.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Enter the required details, such as the SID (WhatsApp),Auth Token (WhatsApp) and Whatsapp Number (WhatsApp).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1600\" height=\"731\" src=\"https:\/\/documentation.iqonic.design\/kivicare-laravel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/04\/Enable_WhatsApp_Notifications.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-435\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Enable SMS Notifications<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>In the&nbsp;<strong>&#8220;Settings&#8221;<\/strong>&nbsp;section, locate the&nbsp;<strong>Integration<\/strong>&nbsp;option.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Toggle switch of Enable SMS Integration.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Enter the required details, such as the SID (SMS),Auth Token (SMS) and Phone Number (SMS)) configurations.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>By completing these steps, you can set up and activate both WhatsApp and SMS notifications in your system.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1600\" height=\"731\" src=\"https:\/\/documentation.iqonic.design\/kivicare-laravel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/04\/Enable_SMS_Notifications.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-434\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steps to Configure WhatsApp and SMS Notifications Setup Twilio for SMS Navigate to&nbsp;Settings&nbsp;from sidebar menu of your admin panel. Enable WhatsApp Notifications Enable SMS Notifications In the&nbsp;&#8220;Settings&#8221;&nbsp;section, locate the&nbsp;Integration&nbsp;option.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"parent":106,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kivicare-laravel"],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"laraveladminiq","author_link":"https:\/\/documentation.iqonic.design\/kivicare-laravel\/author\/laraveladminiq\/"},"children":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/documentation.iqonic.design\/kivicare-laravel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/documentation.iqonic.design\/kivicare-laravel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/documentation.iqonic.design\/kivicare-laravel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/documentation.iqonic.design\/kivicare-laravel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/documentation.iqonic.design\/kivicare-laravel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/documentation.iqonic.design\/kivicare-laravel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":552,"href":"https:\/\/documentation.iqonic.design\/kivicare-laravel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146\/revisions\/552"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/documentation.iqonic.design\/kivicare-laravel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/documentation.iqonic.design\/kivicare-laravel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/documentation.iqonic.design\/kivicare-laravel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/documentation.iqonic.design\/kivicare-laravel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}