Set up Twilio Account | Send Text Message Notifications
- Go to www.twilio.com and sign up for your free Twilio trial account.
Click ‘Start for free’ button.
- Fill in the Sign-Up form and click Continue.
- Twilio will send you a verification email. Open an email from Twilio and copy the code from the email to the Twilio website.
Click ‘Verify’ button.
- Enter your telephone number and click ‘Send code via SMS’ button.
- Twilio will send you a verification text message. Enter verification code from text message to the Twilio website.
Click ‘Verify’ button.
- After successful verification, Twilio will provide you with a Recovery code in case you lose your phone, or don’t have access to it.
Save this code somewhere safe.
Click ‘Continue’ button.
- Select additional options accordingly.
Click ‘Get Started with Twilio’ button.
- Once in your Twilio Dashboard, click ‘Get phone number’ button.
- Once the number has been assigned, scroll down to Account info section.
There you will find your Account SID, Auth Token and Twilio Phone number.
Copy this information to Garage Invoice app.
Click ‘Save Settings’ button. - Twilio account set up is complete.
Please note that the Twilio Trial account is only for testing purposes and will only allow you to send messages to your phone number.
You can test it by entering your phone number (including prefix e.g. +44), message content and clicking ‘Send Test Text Message’ button.
If you would like to get a full Twilio account and send text messages to any number, head back to the Twilio Dashboard, click ‘Upgrade’ and follow the Twilio’s checkout process.
If you would like to get a full Twilio account and send text messages to any number, head back to the Twilio Dashboard, click ‘Upgrade’ and follow the Twilio’s checkout process.