Delivery Receipts

You can verify that a message you sent using Nexmo's SMS API reached your customer by requesting a delivery receipt from the carrier.

NOTE: Not all networks and countries support delivery receipts. You can check our knowledge base for some further information on what you might receive if your network does not support delivery receipts. For detailed information on delivery receipts see our documentation.

To access the delivery receipt, you need to:

Create a webhook endpoint using one of the code examples shown below
Configure the webhook endpoint in your Nexmo Dashboard

NOTE: After you send a message there may be a delay before you receive the delivery receipt.

Prerequisites

Install dependencies

npm install express body-parser

Initialize your dependencies

Create a file named dlr-express.js and add the following code:

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const app = require('express')()
const bodyParser = require('body-parser')

app.use(bodyParser.json())
app.use(bodyParser.urlencoded({ extended: true }))

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Write the code

Add the following to dlr-express.js:

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app
  .route('/webhooks/delivery-receipt')
  .get(handleDeliveryReceipt)
  .post(handleDeliveryReceipt)

function handleDeliveryReceipt(request, response) {
  const params = Object.assign(request.query, request.body)
  console.log(params)
  response.status(204).send()
}

app.listen(process.env.PORT || 3000)

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Run your code

Save this file to your machine and run it:

node dlr-express.js

Prerequisites

Install dependencies

Add the following to `build.gradle`:

compile 'com.nexmo:client:5.2.1'
compile 'com.sparkjava:spark-core:2.7.2'

Write the code

Add the following to the main method of the ReceiveDLR class:

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port(3000);

get("/webhooks/delivery-receipt", (req, res) -> {
    for (String param : req.queryParams()) {
        System.out.printf("%s: %s\n", param, req.queryParams(param));
    }
    res.status(204);
    return "";
});

post("/webhooks/delivery-receipt", (req, res) -> {
    // The body will be form-encoded or a JSON object:
    if (req.contentType().startsWith("application/x-www-form-urlencoded")) {
        for (String param : req.queryParams()) {
            System.out.printf("%s: %s\n", param, req.queryParams(param));
        }
    } else {
        IncomingDlrPayload jsonPayload = IncomingDlrPayload.fromJson(req.bodyAsBytes());
        System.out.println(jsonPayload);
    }

    res.status(204);
    return "";
});

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Run your code

We can use the application plugin for Gradle to simplify the running of our application. Update your build.gradle with the following:

  apply plugin: 'application'
  mainClassName = project.hasProperty('main') ? project.getProperty('main') : ''

Run the following gradle command to execute your application, replacing com.nexmo.quickstart.sms with the package containing ReceiveDLR:

gradle run -Pmain=com.nexmo.quickstart.sms.ReceiveDLR

Prerequisites

Install dependencies

Install-Package Nexmo.Csharp.Client

Import dependencies

Create a file named SmsController.cs and add the following code:

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using Nexmo.Api.Messaging;
using Nexmo.Api.Utility;

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Write the code

Add the following to SmsController.cs:

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[HttpGet("webhooks/delivery-receipt")]
public async Task<IActionResult> DeliveryReceipt()
{
    var dlr = WebhookParser.ParseQuery<DeliveryReceipt>(Request.Query);
    Console.WriteLine($"Delivery receipt received for messages {dlr.MessageId} at {dlr.MessageTimestamp}");
    return NoContent();
}

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Prerequisites

Install dependencies

composer require slim/slim:^3.8 nexmo/client

Import dependencies

Create a file named index.php and add the following code:

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use \Psr\Http\Message\ServerRequestInterface as Request;
use \Psr\Http\Message\ResponseInterface as Response;

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Initialize your dependencies

Add the following to index.php:

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$app = new \Slim\App;

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Write the code

Add the following to index.php:

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$handler = function (Request $request, Response $response) {
    $receipt = \Nexmo\SMS\Webhook\Factory::createFromRequest($request);

    error_log(print_r($receipt, true));

    return $response->withStatus(204);
};

$app->map(['GET', 'POST'], '/webhooks/delivery-receipt', $handler);

$app->run();

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Run your code

Save this file to your machine and run it:

php -S localhost:3000 -t .

Prerequisites

Install dependencies

pip install flask

Initialize your dependencies

Create a file named dlr-flask.py and add the following code:

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from flask import Flask, request, jsonify
from pprint import pprint

app = Flask(__name__)

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Write the code

Add the following to dlr-flask.py:

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@app.route('/webhooks/delivery-receipt', methods=['GET', 'POST'])
def delivery_receipt():
    if request.is_json:
        pprint(request.get_json())
    else:
        data = dict(request.form) or dict(request.args)
        pprint(data)
        
    return ('', 204)

app.run(port=3000)

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Run your code

Save this file to your machine and run it:

python dlr-flask.py

Prerequisites

Install dependencies

gem install sinatra sinatra-contrib

Initialize your dependencies

Create a file named delivery_receipt.rb and add the following code:

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require 'sinatra'
require 'sinatra/multi_route'
require 'json'

helpers do
  def parsed_body
     json? ? JSON.parse(request.body.read) : {}
  end

  def json?
    request.content_type == 'application/json'
  end
end

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Write the code

Add the following to delivery_receipt.rb:

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route :get, :post, '/webhooks/delivery-receipt' do
  puts params.merge(parsed_body)
  status 204
end

set :port, 3000

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Run your code

Save this file to your machine and run it:

ruby delivery_receipt.rb

Configure the webhook endpoint in your Nexmo Dashboard

So that Nexmo knows how to access your webhook, you must configure it in your Nexmo account.

In the code snippets, the webhook is located at /webhooks/delivery-receipt. If you are using Ngrok, the webhook you need to configure in your Nexmo Dashboard API Settings page is of the form https://demo.ngrok.io/webhooks/delivery-receipt. Replace demo with the subdomain provided by Ngrok and enter your endpoint in the field labeled Webhook URL for Delivery Receipts:

Try it out

Send a message to a mobile number and, if the network supports it, you will receive a delivery receipt in the following format:

{
  "err-code": "0",
  "message-timestamp": "2020-10-25 12:10:29",
  "messageId": "0B00000127FDBC63",
  "msisdn": "447700900000",
  "network-code": "23410",
  "price": "0.03330000",
  "scts": "1810251310",
  "status": "delivered",
  "to": "Nexmo CLI"
}

NOTE: After you send a message there may be a delay before you receive the delivery receipt.

More information

SMS Delivery Receipt documentation