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Twilio Cookbook

You're reading from   Twilio Cookbook The Twilio cookbook will enable all kinds of telephone usage, including SMS, on your websites. It's a totally practical guide with a hands-on approach to help you dig deep into the enormous potential of telephone facilities on the Web.

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2013
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781782166061
Length 266 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

Twilio Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Into the Frying Pan 2. Now We're Cooking FREE CHAPTER 3. Conducting Surveys via SMS 4. Building a Conference Calling System 5. Combining Twilio with Other APIs 6. Sending and Receiving SMS Messages 7. Building a Reminder System 8. Building an IVR System 9. Building Your Own PBX 10. Digging into OpenVBX Index

Introduction


In this last chapter will be digging into OpenVBX.

OpenVBX is an open source VBX system built by Twilio that you can use to quickly set up your calls.

I like to use OpenVBX for various projects because it allows for a rapid setup and your users can use it to handle incoming calls, outgoing calls, and messages. This has an easy-to-learn drag-and-drop call flow system.

We'll be building plugins to extend our OpenVBX installation so that you can make it more useful to your users.

By the end of the chapter, you'll have a nice call log and a searchable company directory. You will be able to collect Stripe payments over the phone, have a handy order status tracking system integrated into your site, have a caller ID, and finally, be able to test your call flows.

Flows are what the call workflows are known as; they can be set up as easily as dragging a box onto action.

As part of building our plugins, we'll also be building what OpenVBX refers to as applets , which are the actionable items...

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