New Feature: Send Two-Factor Authentication via WhatsApp
23, Jun 2021
We're excited to announce that your Verify API now supports delivering a verification code through WhatsApp messages.
With this new feature, we introduced an addition to the verification API while doing our best to maintain backward compatibility. Users who have already integrated with the API should read the release notes carefully and make the appropriate planning to add this feature.
Updates to API Requests and Responses
In the code snippets below, existing features are in green, while new features are in red.
Create a Verify Profile
Update a Verify Profile
Trigger a Verification
Triggering a verification to /v2/verification with the old payload is still accommodated. However, the new style of API will support /v2/verifications/{channel of delivery}.
We encourage users to migrate to the new API to use the new style API features
Submit a Verification
We encourage users to migrate to the new API to use the new style API features
List all Verify Profiles
After this release, the old style update payload to /v2/verify_profiles will still be accommodated and the response will remain unchanged. However, we encourage the user to migrate to the new API.
Retrieve a Verify Profile
After this release, the old style and new style request remains the same. However, there are new fields added to the response.
Delete a Verify Profile
After this release, old style and new style requests remain the same. However, there are new fields added to the response.
List Verifications by Phone Number
After this release, old style and new style requests remain the same. However, there are new fields added to the response.
Retrieve a Verification
After this release, old style and new style requests remain the same. However, there are new fields added to the response.