Introduction to the Transactional API
Everything you need to know about Prelude Transactional API to start sending transactional messages to your users via SMS and online messaging channels.
If you want to send OTP codes, use the Verification API.
Contrary to the Transactional API, the Verification API provides full access to our multi-channel system, gives access to lower SMS rates via our arbitrage system and protects verifications with our anti-fraud solution.
The old URL https://api.ding.live/v2
will be deprecated soon. Please use https://api.prelude.dev/v2
to call the Transactional API.
Region support
The Transactional API is available in a number of regions. To see the full list, check the Region Support Table. New regions are coming soon, based on demand.
API
The Prelude v2 API is a REST API and uses standard HTTP features and statuses.
The current URL is https://api.prelude.dev/v2
.
Authentication
To perform requests on the API, you need to provide a v2 API key in the Authorization
header.
You can create an API key in the Dashboard, under the API Keys section of the settings.
Errors
Prelude uses conventional HTTP statuses to indicate the success or failure of a request:
- Codes in the
2xx
range indicate success. - Codes in the
4xx
range indicate an error that failed given the information provided (e.g. required parameter was omitted or an authentication failed). - Codes in the
5xx
range indicate an error with Prelude's servers (these are rare).
The Prelude API returns errors using a JSON object in the response body with a
machine-readable code
and a human-readable message
and a param
field.
See Errors for more details as well as a list of all possible error codes.