Skyetel

Skyetel is a nationwide SIP Trunk Provider in the US. They provide modern and innovative SIP trunking services to customers throughout North America. With Ringotel and Skyetel integration, you can enable SMS and MMS messaging for softphone users in a few clicks.

How does it work

The integration allows you to add your Skyetel SMS-enabled phone numbers and assign multiple users who can send/receive messages via these numbers.

Enable SMS service

1. Navigate to the connection’s features settings in an organization where you would like to enable the integration. Then, set Enable SMS via Integrations and hit Save changes.

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Set up the Integration

Firstly, log into your Skyetel portal (https://login.skyetel.com ) and generate a new SID and Secret by clicking on the gear icon in the top right corner.

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Once the SID and Secred are generated, navigate to your Ringotel admin potral -> organization -> Integrations tab, and click the Enable integration button on the Skyetel card. The integration settings panel should appear. Enter your Skyetel SID and Secret into the designated fields:

Press the Copy button beside the provided Webhook URL and then Save & Continue button.

Navigate back to your Skyetel portal, where you need to configure your Skyetel Phone Number(s) to post messages to Ringotel. In your Skyetel portal, select your phone number(s) and choose the destination (Forward) as “Callback URL” and the Method as “POST” on the SMS tab. In the URL field, enter the Webhook URL copied from the Ringotel portal.

Add phone numbers

Once the integration settings are successfully saved, you need to add your SMS-enabled Skyetel phone numbers and assign users who can send/receive SMS/MMS via these phone numbers. 

In the Phone number field, specify your Skyetel phone number in the E.164 format (without +), for example, 18584376047.

Select Users who will send and receive SMS/MMS via this phone number. You can click Select all to select all users from this connection. 

Session stickiness determines how long a client number will stick to a user who initiates a conversation by sending an outgoing SMS. For example, a user creates a new chat with an external client number 5136553082. If a client replies to an SMS within the session stickiness time, the message will be routed directly to the user who initiated the conversation. Once the session stickiness timeout, the next incoming message from a client will create a new chat, and the users assigned to the SMS phone number will receive a message and be able to communicate with a client.

Reformat outbound/inbound numbers options allow mitigating chats duplication when, for example, an incoming SMS is coming in one format (e.g., E.164), but users are sending outgoing SMS in another format (e.g., National). In addition, you can set a similar option for calls in the connection’s settings (Match phone numbers with the e164 format option).

Click Save.

You can add more phone numbers by clicking Add SMS number button.