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Telnyx Numbers — Documentation Index

Phone number search and ordering, porting, regulatory requirements, and identity. One section of the Telnyx developer docs (https://developers.telnyx.com). Root index: https://developers.telnyx.com/llms.txt · Full content for this section: https://developers.telnyx.com/development/llms/numbers-llms-full-txt.md

Subsections

Focused per-subsection files (index + full content):

Global Phone Numbers

  • Getting started with Telnyx phone number APIs: The following concepts must be understood to purchase phone numbers.
  • Number search: Search the Telnyx phone number inventory for available local, toll-free, and international numbers by area code, country, features, or rate-center filters.
  • Number reservations: Reserve Telnyx phone numbers before purchase so they aren’t sold to another customer. Create, list, and release number reservations via the API or portal.
  • Number orders: Step-by-step tutorial showing how to search inventory, create a number order, and provision phone numbers programmatically through the Telnyx API.
  • Advanced Orders: Submit and track Advanced Order Requests when phone number searches return zero results - request Telnyx to acquire unavailable numbers on your behalf.
  • Bulk orders: Order phone numbers in bulk by specifying quantity and search criteria without selecting specific numbers upfront

Porting

  • Port in orders: Transfer your existing phone numbers to Telnyx by creating and submitting port-in orders
  • Port-in requirements: View and fulfill the regulatory requirements on Telnyx port-in orders, including LOA submission, account details, and country-specific compliance documents.
  • Allowed FOC dates: Request and set a specific Firm Order Commitment (FOC) date for your Telnyx port-in order to control when phone numbers transfer to your account.
  • Cancel port order: Cancel a port-in order that is no longer needed before it completes
  • On-demand activations: Port your phone numbers at your convenience with flexible activation windows
  • Port-in order notifications: We understand the importance of being able to track the progress
  • Port-in events: View events for your port-in orders and republish notifications for specific events
  • Porting additional steps: Handle additional steps that may be required before submitting a porting order
  • Extensions: Port phone number extensions (extended numbers) alongside a route number for German porting orders
  • Messaging + porting: Track and manage messaging activation when porting US and Canada phone numbers
  • Bundles with porting: Associate bundles with porting phone numbers so bundle pricing is automatically applied when the port completes
  • Port-in blocks: Port consecutive phone number blocks from another carrier, with control over which numbers activate immediately
  • Port-out orders: Manage port-out requests when another carrier initiates a transfer for phone numbers on your Telnyx account
  • Port out order notifications: Receive Telnyx port-out notifications to track when numbers leave your account. Configure email or webhook alerts for port-out status updates and approvals.
  • Port-out events: View events for your port-out orders and republish notifications for specific events

Regulatory & Documents

  • Regulatory Requirements: Tutorial for viewing and fulfilling regulatory requirements on phone number orders.
  • Requirement groups: Manage and reuse regulatory requirements across multiple phone number orders by creating requirement groups
  • Action requirements: Complete action requirements for international phone number orders that cannot be fulfilled through standard documentation
  • Documents: Upload and manage documents used for regulatory requirements and identity verification

Identity

  • Number lookup using Telnyx APIs: Lookup a phone number and retrieve information. Start building on Telnyx today.
  • Telnyx verify quickstart: Telnyx Verify helps to deliver a 2FA token to any mobile number and
  • DTMF confirmation: Verify phone number ownership with a single keypress. No codes - press 1 to confirm.
  • Custom templates: Create and manage custom verification message templates for branded OTP communications with Telnyx Verify.
  • Webhooks: Receive and verify Telnyx Verify webhooks for SMS, voice, WhatsApp, and PSD2 verifications. Includes payload structure, signing, and retry behavior.
  • Security Best Practices: Protect your verification flows from fraud, abuse, and common attack vectors with these security best practices for Telnyx Verify.
  • Rate Limiting & Fraud Prevention: Protect Telnyx Verify integrations from SMS pumping and toll fraud. Add server-side rate limits, geo-fencing, anomaly detection, and cost controls.

Number Reputation

  • Overview: Monitor the spam reputation of your outbound calling phone numbers with Telnyx Number Reputation.
  • Quickstart: Step-by-step guide to set up Number Reputation and start monitoring your phone numbers’ spam scores.
  • Pricing: Number Reputation pricing — enterprise monitoring, per-check reputation queries, and per-check remediation.
  • Letter of Authorization: Render, sign, upload, and manage the Letter of Authorization that Telnyx needs before activating Number Reputation.
  • Reputation Settings: Enable, configure, and manage Number Reputation monitoring for your enterprise.
  • Phone Numbers: Associate phone numbers for monitoring, query spam scores and risk levels, and manage ongoing reputation tracking.
  • Remediation: Submit spam-flagged phone numbers for re-evaluation, then poll the request to track per-number remediation results.

API Reference (Numbers)

Country Coverage

Inventory Level

  • Create an inventory coverage request: Creates an inventory coverage request. If locality, npa or national_destination_code is used in groupBy, and no region or locality filters are used, the whole…

numbers features

Phone Number Reservations

Phone Number Orders

Phone Number Block Orders

Requirement Groups

Advanced Number Orders

Inexplicit Number Orders

Callbacks

Phone Number Blocks Background Jobs

Phone Number Configurations

CSV Downloads

Bulk Phone Number Operations

Regulatory Requirements

Phone Number Porting

Porting Orders

Number Portout

Requirements

Requirement Types

Verified Numbers

Documents

Bundles

User Bundles

Voicemail

Voice Channels

Dynamic Emergency Addresses

Dynamic Emergency Endpoints

Number Lookup

Verify

Enterprises

  • List enterprises: Return the enterprises you own, paginated. The default page size is 20; the maximum is 250.
  • Create an enterprise: Create the legal entity (enterprise) that represents your business on the Telnyx platform.
  • Get an enterprise: Retrieve a single enterprise by id. Returns 404 if the id does not exist or does not belong to your account.
  • Replace an enterprise: Replace the enterprise’s mutable fields. Only mutable fields may be sent. Server-assigned and immutable fields (id, record_type, created_at, updated_at
  • Delete an enterprise: Soft-delete an enterprise.

Terms of Service

Reputation