Python-powered chat apps with Twilio and SendGrid Transcripts
Chapter: Sending outbound text messages
Lecture: The messages we can send, and the ones we can't
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Now, before we go and write the message we want to send,
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we need to talk for just a moment about sandbox message templates.
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What are those? It turns out that WhatsApp doesn't want you to arbitrarily start spamming
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people, Surprise, Surprise Right?
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While we're in this sandbox mode,
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we can only send a couple of messages so we can send your some piece of
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information, code is something your appointment is coming up on at such and such place or
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your blank order of whatever has shipped.
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And it's to be delivered on whatever day with some more details.
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Outside of that, you have to go to WhatsApp and have your messages approved in
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this template format. It also says there's this 24 hour window.
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So if you have a conversation with somebody and they interact with you,
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you have 24 hours to send them whatever you want.
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Like, we have a small, medium and large cake.
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What size of that cake would you like?
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Right that is good for 24 hours.
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But if days are going to go by and then eventually their cake is ready and
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we want to tell them we're going to have to in this horse.
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And this test mode and this development mode probably use something like this for our format
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in practice. What you would do is you would go to WhatsApp.
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You'd get something verified. You can click here and say,
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Learn more about templates and there's a whole section on how to go through and do
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that. But what you need to do is get the types of messages that you
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want to send as a inbound message to the user outside of the 24 hour window
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You got to get that approved.
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So we're just gonna go with something simple like this to make sure that it's going
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to work. Your cake code is ready for pickup, or something weird like that.