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Platform Free Trial

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Platform Free Trial (PFT) provides a way to test SignalWire’s messaging APIs before registering Brands or Campaigns with The Campaign Registry. There is no set length of your trial, so you can take your time experimenting with Messaging. The only cost to you is standard message rates and carrier fees.

It is simple to set up, but, as a trial, it does have restrictions. Let’s go over the details.

Enabling Platform Free Trial

1

Verify a personal phone number

For users who are completely new to SignalWire, enabling Platform Free Trial is mostly automated with required onboarding information. One of the onboarding steps is to verify a mobile phone number. This is the one and only number that will be able to receive test messages.

Existing users who have not already registered with The Campaign Registry will find a prompt in the Messaging Campaigns page of the Dashboard to enable Platform Free Trial by verifying a new phone number.

A phone number you verified earlier isn’t enabled for PFT until you buy a new US local number. To use it for PFT test messaging without buying one, remove the number and re-verify it to trigger PFT set-up.

You will see an icon in your verified Caller ID list marking which number is enabled for test messaging.

2

Purchase a SignalWire phone number

The second step to enabling Platform Free Trial is to purchase a SignalWire phone number. For new users, the first number you purchase will be PFT enabled. For existing users with previously purchased phone numbers, SignalWire will assign one of your numbers to be PFT enabled as soon as you have verified a mobile number. This number is usually the most recently purchased.

When you have a verified mobile number and an active SignalWire number in your account, you will see a notice in your Messaging Campaigns Space that you can now send test messages.

For a quick start on sending your first message, see the Try it out examples on the Messaging overview.

Trial Restrictions

Test messages with Platform Free Trial can only be sent from your trial number. No other messaging traffic will be possible without registering a Campaign with The Campaign Registry.

  • Your trial number can send up to 200 message segments per day.
  • Messages you send through the messaging APIs, or during a call with the SWML send_sms method or the cXML <Sms> verb, can only go to your verified mobile number.
  • SignalWire adds [SignalWire Free Trial] to the start of each message you send through the messaging APIs, or with the SWML send_sms method during a call.
PFT is a single-use trial

Releasing or removing either your PFT-enabled SignalWire phone number or verified caller ID number will end the free trial. You will not be able to re-enable the trial by adding a new phone number. You would be unable to send any further messages until registering a Campaign with The Campaign Registry.

Moving your trial number to your own Campaign

After your own 10DLC Campaign is approved, you can move your Platform Free Trial number to it without opening a Support ticket. Assign the number to the Campaign the same way as any other phone number, and SignalWire moves the assignment off Platform Free Trial.

Once the number is on your Campaign, the trial restrictions no longer apply. Its messaging limits are those of the Campaign you moved it to.