Installation Guide

1. Download the add-on
2. Unzip and upload the sms-transfers folder to your wp-content/plugins/ folder
3. Login to your WordPress admin area
4. Enable the SMS Payments plugin
5. Done

SMS Payment Settings

1. Enter your Twilio Account ID and the Twilio phone number to which users will send their SMS messages.
2. Enter the meta key where you store your users phone numbers. This can either be a WordPress meta key or a BuddyPress extra profile field name. *
3. Select how to identify the transfer recipients in the SMS messages. By default you can select ID, login or emails.
4. Set how you want to identify user actions such as transfers and / or transfer cancellations.
5. Select if you want to enforce the transfer limit used by the Transfers add-on.
6. Select if you want to offer transfer cancellations by setting the number of seconds a user has to cancel a transfer. Use zero to disable this feature.
7. Set your myCred Log templates for transfers and cancellations.
8. Set the SMS replies you want to send users. Remember that you will be charged for these SMS replies and there is a maximum 160 characters per message.
9. Click Update Settings

* Phone numbers must be stored in the proper format! This means numbers should start with a plus character (+)  then the country code (1 for USA) then the entire number without any dashes or spaces!

Important to remember

• This add-on will only manage the SMS transfers for you. It will NOT insert any details to your users on how to use the SMS service, this you need to add yourself!
• Twilio will charge you for replying to SMS messages. If you expect a large volume of messages, please contact Twilio Sales to make sure you are on the correct pricing plan.
• Support is only offered for this add-on. If you experience technical issues with your Twilio account, please contact Twilio directly.

Setting up your Twilio Number

In order for this add-on to work, you must setup your Twilio phone numbers “Messaging Request URL” in order to tell Twilio where to forward incoming SMS messages.

1. Login to your Twilio account
2. Click on “Numbers” in your account menu
3. Click on the phone number you want to use
4. In the “Messaging” box enter the URL given to your in your myCred > Settings > SMS Payments settings.
5. Make sure the request is done using “GET”.
6. Click Save Changes
7. Done!