Objective
This article shows you how to call your Twilio trial phone number from your own phone and choose what your caller hears, so you can see how Twilio handles inbound calls before you build your own call flow.
Product
Programmable Voice
Environment
Twilio Console
Procedure
- In the Twilio Console, select Home in the left sidebar.
- Select the Voice product tab on your account home.
- Select Try out Voice, then select the Receive a call tab.
- Choose what happens when someone calls your trial number:
- Leave Quick tests selected to use a ready-made sample answer.
- Select Custom, enter your own endpoint in Webhook URL, choose a Request method such as POST, then select Save. A Webhook saved successfully confirmation appears.
- Get your trial number onto your phone in either of these ways:
- Scan the QR code shown in the panel to set up the call on your phone.
- Select the button showing your trial phone number to copy it, then dial it from your phone's calling app.
- Place the call. Twilio answers with the sample you chose, or sends the call to your webhook.
- The call appears on the Logs tab of the panel.
Additional Information
- You must call from a phone number that is verified on your trial account.
- You can have only one inbound call webhook configured at a time. It is attached to your Twilio trial phone numbers, so saving a new one replaces the previous configuration.
- If a webhook is already saved on your account, Custom is pre-selected when you open the tab and the saved URL is filled in.
- Select How do webhooks work? for an explanation of what Twilio sends to your endpoint and what it expects back.
- On the Try out Voice page reached from the Voice setup guide, the same tab instead offers a Sample call instructions (TwiML webhook) list. Pick a sample and select Save to get an Inbound voice configuration saved confirmation.
- After you upgrade, this tab shows Receiving calls on your Twilio phone number with a Numbers & senders link, where you configure how each of your own Twilio numbers handles inbound calls.
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