Delivery receipts for outbound Chat Apps

Delivery Report (DR) are webhooks for Chat Apps delivery statuses: POST requests sent by the 8x8 platform in JSON format to the callback URL configured for your account.

Requirements

To use 8x8 inbound Chat Apps capabilities, you need:

An account configured to use Chat Apps product.
A webhook to indicate to us which URL 8x8 platform should send delivery reports to.

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You can configure your callback using Webhooks Configuration API

Retry logic

In case of connection error/timeout or HTTP response code 4XX or 5XX, there will be multiple retry attempts with progressive intervals: 1, 10, 30, 90 sec.

Webhook format

Request body description

Parameter name	Parameter type	Description
namespace	string	A generic namespace for incoming webhook. Equal to `ChatApps` for delivery receipts.
eventType	string	Webhook type. Equals to `outbound_message_status_changed` for delivery receipts.
description	string	Human-readable description of the incoming event
payload	object	Delivery receipt information, see below.

Payload object description

Parameter name	Parameter type	Description
umid	uuid	A unique identifier generated by 8x8 for the message
batchId	uuid	A unique identifier generated by 8x8 for the message if sent using Batch API
clientMessageId	string	Your custom identifier for the message
clientBatchId	string	Client managed id for this batch of messages : your own unique reference
subAccountId	string	The sub-account id used to deliver the message
channel	string	Name of the channel used to send the message, please see List of supported ChatApps channels for details.
user	object	Information about the user the message is associated with.
status	object	Current status of the message, please see Message status reference for details.
price	object	Price information of the message, please see Price object reference for details

User information object description

Parameter name	Parameter type	Description
msisdn	string	Phone number expressed in E.164 international format.
channelUserId	string	Channel user identifier.

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If the request you receive has a different structure from described in this document, please contact our support to activate the latest format for your account.

Sample delivery receipt for outbound SMS

{
  "namespace": "ChatApps",
  "eventType": "outbound_message_status_changed",
  "description": "ChatApps Outbound Message Delivery Receipt",
  "payload": {
    "umid": "5ef3c9ae-18d7-425a-a518-329de6f43d03",
    "batchId": "95f8bc5e-7517-eb11-815c-022a22cc1c71",
    "clientMessageId": "cde4ef5e-7517-eb11-8278-00155d9f27ac",
    "clientBatchId": "f38ea8a7-7517-eb11-827b-00155d7d21a4",
    "subAccountId": "TestSubAccountId",
    "channel": "whatsapp",
    "user": {
      "msisdn": "+6581968289",
      "channelUserId": "+6581968289"
    },
    "status": {
      "state": "undelivered",
      "detail": "rejected_by_operator",
      "timestamp": "2016-01-01T00:00:00Z",
      "errorCode": 15,
      "errorMessage": "Invalid destination"
    },
    "price": {
      "total": 3.0375,
      "currency": "IDR"
    },
  }
}