Send SMS Text Messages with Pipelines and Twilio
Twilio is a service used to automate SMS text messaging. Including Twilio within your Quickbase ecosystem can be a huge value gain, adding efficiency to internal processes, like alerting employees out in the field or providing transparency to your customers with real-time updates. In this blog, I'll be focusing on a Work Order use case where we provide the customer with real-time status updates throughout the lifecycle of the Work Order.
Getting StartedFirst things first, login to your Twilio account and make sure you have your Account SID and Authentication token ready to go in order to authenticate your Twilio channel.
From your Twilio profile, click on Settings → General. The API Credentials dialog will display the following...
Once you have the above information go to your pipeline, locate the Twilio channel, and copy/paste the Account SID and Auth Token accordingly.
After reading this you should now be ready to create your first pipeline utilizing the Twilio channel! It's a quick and easy way to augment your Quickbase ecosystem by gaining more efficiency and transparency throughout your many workflows! Drop a comment and let us know other ways you plan on using the Twilio channel!