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Track Campaigns on Exotel's dashboard

Suppose you set up an SMS campaign via Exotel, you can monitor the statistics of the campaign right there on the Campaigns page. Like this:



You can refer to the SMS status code article to understand the status better - SMS Code



Track Campaigns on your server

However, if you want to automate this and/or integrate this information with your own CRM, then you can do the following:

  1. While creating an SMS campaign, you can optionally specify a Status Callback URL
  2. For each phone number in the campaign, our server will make an HTTP POST request to this URL with the POST parameters
  • SMS Sid - this is a unique identifier of an individual SMS
  • To - the phone number the SMS was sent to
  • Status - This is the delivery status of the SMS. This can be one of 
    • "sent" => the SMS was successfully delivered to the recipient
    • "failed-dnd" => the delivery of the SMS failed because the number belongs to the TRAI NCPR list
    • "failed" => the delivery of the SMS failed because of other reasons (for example a number not reachable, switched off, etc.)

How to identify which campaign a Status callback is for?
The Status Callback URL that you specify (in step 1 above) itself can contain different query parameters to help your system identify what campaign is to be tracked. For example, the Status Callback URL can be something like - http://example.com/exotel-sms-campaign.php?campaignid=12345

Since Exotel will make an HTTP POST request to the above URL, your web application receiving the HTTP request can strip out the campaign ID query parameter and identify which campaign the status callback belongs to. 



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