/telnyx-account-management-curl

name: telnyx-account-management-curl
description: >-
  Manage sub-accounts for reseller and enterprise scenarios. This skill provides
  REST API (curl) examples.
metadata:
  author: telnyx
  product: account-management
  language: curl
  generated_by: telnyx-openapi-pipeline

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Telnyx Account Management - curl

Installation

# curl is pre-installed on macOS, Linux, and Windows 10+

Setup

export TELNYX_API_KEY="YOUR_API_KEY_HERE"

All examples below use `$TELNYX_API_KEY` for authentication.

Error Handling

All API calls can fail with network errors, rate limits (429), validation errors (422), or authentication errors (401). Always handle errors in production code:

# Check HTTP status code in response
response=$(curl -s -w "\n%{http_code}" \
  -X POST "https://api.telnyx.com/v2/messages" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $TELNYX_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"to": "+13125550001", "from": "+13125550002", "text": "Hello"}')

http_code=$(echo "$response" | tail -1)
body=$(echo "$response" | sed '$d')

case $http_code in
  2*) echo "Success: $body" ;;
  422) echo "Validation error — check required fields and formats" ;;
  429) echo "Rate limited — retry after delay"; sleep 1 ;;
  401) echo "Authentication failed — check TELNYX_API_KEY" ;;
  *)   echo "Error $http_code: $body" ;;
esac

Common error codes: `401` invalid API key, `403` insufficient permissions, `404` resource not found, `422` validation error (check field formats), `429` rate limited (retry with exponential backoff).

Important Notes

• **Pagination:** List endpoints return paginated results. Use `page[number]` and `page[size]` query parameters to navigate pages. Check `meta.total_pages` in the response.

Lists accounts managed by the current user.

Lists the accounts managed by the current user. Users need to be explictly approved by Telnyx in order to become manager accounts.

`GET /managed_accounts`

curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $TELNYX_API_KEY" "https://api.telnyx.com/v2/managed_accounts?filter={'email': {'contains': 'john'}, 'organization_name': {'eq': 'Example Company LLC'}}&sort=email&include_cancelled_accounts=True"

Returns: `api_user` (string), `created_at` (string), `email` (email), `id` (uuid), `managed_account_allow_custom_pricing` (boolean), `manager_account_id` (string), `organization_name` (string), `record_type` (enum: managed_account), `rollup_billing` (boolean), `updated_at` (string)

Create a new managed account.

Create a new managed account owned by the authenticated user. You need to be explictly approved by Telnyx in order to become a manager account.

`POST /managed_accounts` — Required: `business_name`

Optional: `email` (string), `managed_account_allow_custom_pricing` (boolean), `password` (string), `rollup_billing` (boolean)

curl \
  -X POST \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $TELNYX_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
  "business_name": "Larry's Cat Food Inc"
}' \
  "https://api.telnyx.com/v2/managed_accounts"

Returns: `api_key` (string), `api_token` (string), `api_user` (string), `balance` (object), `created_at` (string), `email` (email), `id` (uuid), `managed_account_allow_custom_pricing` (boolean), `manager_account_id` (string), `organization_name` (string), `record_type` (enum: managed_account), `rollup_billing` (boolean), `updated_at` (string)

Display information about allocatable global outbound channels for the current user.

Display information about allocatable global outbound channels for the current user. Only usable by account managers.

`GET /managed_accounts/allocatable_global_outbound_channels`

curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $TELNYX_API_KEY" "https://api.telnyx.com/v2/managed_accounts/allocatable_global_outbound_channels"

Returns: `allocatable_global_outbound_channels` (integer), `managed_account_allow_custom_pricing` (boolean), `record_type` (string), `total_global_channels_allocated` (integer)

Retrieve a managed account

Retrieves the details of a single managed account.

`GET /managed_accounts/{id}`

curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $TELNYX_API_KEY" "https://api.telnyx.com/v2/managed_accounts/550e8400-e29b-41d4-a716-446655440000"

Returns: `api_key` (string), `api_token` (string), `api_user` (string), `balance` (object), `created_at` (string), `email` (email), `id` (uuid), `managed_account_allow_custom_pricing` (boolean), `manager_account_id` (string), `organization_name` (string), `record_type` (enum: managed_account), `rollup_billing` (boolean), `updated_at` (string)

Update a managed account

Update a single managed account.

`PATCH /managed_accounts/{id}`

Optional: `managed_account_allow_custom_pricing` (boolean)

curl \
  -X PATCH \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $TELNYX_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  "https://api.telnyx.com/v2/managed_accounts/550e8400-e29b-41d4-a716-446655440000"

Returns: `api_key` (string), `api_token` (string), `api_user` (string), `balance` (object), `created_at` (string), `email` (email), `id` (uuid), `managed_account_allow_custom_pricing` (boolean), `manager_account_id` (string), `organization_name` (string), `record_type` (enum: managed_account), `rollup_billing` (boolean), `updated_at` (string)

Disables a managed account

Disables a managed account, forbidding it to use Telnyx services, including sending or receiving phone calls and SMS messages. Ongoing phone calls will not be affected. The managed account and its sub-users will no longer be able to log in via the mission control portal.

`POST /managed_accounts/{id}/actions/disable`

curl \
  -X POST \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $TELNYX_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  "https://api.telnyx.com/v2/managed_accounts/550e8400-e29b-41d4-a716-446655440000/actions/disable"

Returns: `api_key` (string), `api_to