Appendix

Key term definitions, error code reference, and postback notification codes for the XML and JSON APIs.

Key Term Definitions

Term Definition
action This is the name of the function you want to execute with the API.
api-key Random key assigned to an account that can be used for authorization.
to This is the message recipient's phone number in an international format.
from A valid short code or long code for the sender address.
from-mask Alpha numeric senders will support up to 11 characters, a-z, A-Z, 0—9, underscores, hyphens. They can't be numbers, must be alpha numeric or alpha.
operator-id The identifier (integer) of the operators assigned by Sinch.
message-subject The message subject received in the MMS MT request. This is a required field.
service-id The ID of the campaign.
name The human readable name for the stored content.
slide This represents a single slide within the MMS sequence. It could include IMAGE/URL/TEXT/PIC etc. (There are special rules for slides within the saveMMS special consideration section). The MMS can contain one or multiple slides (up to a maximum of 8).
duration This sets the duration of the slides that have video and/or audio content. This duration always overridden by the duration of the content. It's therefore suggested to omit the duration field for these slides.
message-text The text body of your MMS message.
fallback-sms-text This text is used in the SMS when MMS is delivered as SMS Fallback.
mms-id The ID (integer) of a saved MMS.
custom-subject This is custom subject that will overwrite a given message subject received in the MMS MT request when used in the sendSavedMMS function.
custom-text This is custom text that will overwrite a given slide text used in the sendSavedMMS function.
status Indicates if the reponse is a Success or Failure.
tracking-id On success, the API returns with the tracking ID to identify sent messages. Upon API call failure, no tracking ID is returned. Once the message sending is processed you'll receive a postback containing the tracking-id and the message status.
status-details Text that describes the condition of the status node value.

Error Code Reference

Code Description
E100 Invalid request, please make a valid Post request.
E104 Authentication failed, Invalid API-key.
E105 This user account does not have API access.
E106 Time interval between each API call should be at least {X} seconds.
E107 Invalid action. This API user is not allowed to use this action.
E108 Invalid XML or JSON. XML/JSON parsing failed.
E110 Invalid ‘to’ / receiver number.
E111 Invalid ‘from’ / shortcode.
E112 IP wasn't whitelisted. API call rejected.
E113 Exceeded the allowed throughput for this API action.
E114 Phone number is blacklisted. API call rejected.
E115 Sender Mask is limited to 50 characters (Australia only)
E212 Page number is invalid.
E213 Items per page is invalid.
E214 Start-date is invalid.
E223 More than one object is not allowed in the same slide.
E224 MMS audio/video/image are not allowed with object in the same slide.
E225 Exceeded number of slides allowed for the MMS.
E226 MMS audio and video are not allowed in the same slide.
E227 MMS video and image are not allowed in the same slide.
E228 MMS text cannot exceed {X} characters.
E229 Content not allowed.
E230 Invalid / bad slide duration in slide {X}.
E241 Invalid mms-id. This mms-id does not exist.
E311 Invalid MMS Name. Name is required.
E312 No slides.
E313 Slide {X} is empty.
E314 Invalid message-subject / message-subject is required.
E331 Image in slide {X} is too big.
E332 Audio in slide {X} is too big.
E333 Video in slide {X} is too big.
E334 Text in slide {X} is too long.
E335 vCard in slide {X} is too big.
E336 iCal in slide {X} is too big.
E337 PDF in slide {X} is too big.
E341 Image file in slide {X} is corrupted.
E351 Could not copy Image in slide {X}.
E352 Could not copy Audio in slide {X}.
E353 Could not copy Video in slide {X}.
E355 Could not copy vCard in slide {X}.
E356 Could not copy iCal in slide {X}.
E357 Could not copy PDF in slide {X}.
E617 MMS link expiration date is invalid.
E618 Carrier lookup failed. Please retry.
E619 Carrier not provisioned.
E620 The mms-id field is required.
E621 The to field is required.
E622 The fallback-sms-text field is required.
E626 MMS not available. Transcoding in progress, try again later.
E627 Service id is required or invalid.
E628 Mobile operator not supported.
E629 Unrecognized content type.
E650 Operator-id is required or invalid.
E651 Operator-id not found in the system or invalid.

Postback Notification Codes

Code Description
E002 Encoding of MMS audio failed. (saveMMS function)
E003 Encoding of MMS video failed. (saveMMS function)
E011 Content validation failed.
E012 Encoding of MMS audio failed. (sendMMS function)
E013 Encoding of MMS video failed. (sendMMS function)
E100 Invalid request, please make a valid Post request.
E101 Error occurred. Impossible to send MMS.
E102 Error occurred. MMS Delivery wasn't successful.
E202 Error occurred. MMS as SMS Delivery wasn't successful.
E501 Error occurred. Impossible to send DDM Message.
E502 Error occurred. DDM Delivery wasn't successful.
E999 Post Message Sending Queue Processing Errors.
N013 Transcoding successful.
N101 Notification that MMS was sent.
N102 Notification that MMS status was updated.
N103 Notification that MMS expired.
N202 Notification that MMS was delivered as SMS.
N401 MMS MO received successfully.
N501 Notification that Device Discovery Message is sending.
N502 Notification that Device Discovery Message delivery status has changed.
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