/telnyx-account-management-javascript

name: telnyx-account-management-javascript
description: >-
  Manage sub-accounts for reseller and enterprise scenarios. This skill provides
  JavaScript SDK examples.
metadata:
  author: telnyx
  product: account-management
  language: javascript
  generated_by: telnyx-openapi-pipeline

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Telnyx Account Management - JavaScript

Installation

npm install telnyx@6.74.2

Setup

import Telnyx from 'telnyx';

const client = new Telnyx({
  apiKey: process.env['TELNYX_API_KEY'], // This is the default and can be omitted
  publicKey: process.env['TELNYX_PUBLIC_KEY'], // Required for client.webhooks.unwrap() (webhook verification)
});

All examples below assume `client` is already initialized as shown above.

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:

try {
  const result = await client.messages.send({ to: '+13125550001', from: '+13125550002', text: 'Hello' });
} catch (err) {
  if (err instanceof Telnyx.APIConnectionError) {
    console.error('Network error — check connectivity and retry');
  } else if (err instanceof Telnyx.RateLimitError) {
    // 429: rate limited — wait, then retry the request (bounded exponential backoff)
    const retryAfter = err.headers?.['retry-after'] || 1;
    await new Promise(r => setTimeout(r, retryAfter * 1000));
    // ...retry the call here (give up after a few attempts)
  } else if (err instanceof Telnyx.APIError) {
    console.error(`API error ${err.status}: ${err.message}`);
    if (err.status === 422) {
      console.error('Validation error — check required fields and formats');
    }
  }
  throw err; // Re-throw: a failed request must never look like success to the caller
}

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 methods return an auto-paginating iterator. Use `for await (const item of result) { ... }` to iterate through all pages automatically.

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`

// Automatically fetches more pages as needed.
for await (const managedAccountListResponse of client.managedAccounts.list()) {
  console.log(managedAccountListResponse.id);
}

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)

const managedAccount = await client.managedAccounts.create({
  business_name: "Larry's Cat Food Inc",
});

console.log(managedAccount.data);

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`

const response = await client.managedAccounts.getAllocatableGlobalOutboundChannels();

console.log(response.data);

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}`

const managedAccount = await client.managedAccounts.retrieve('550e8400-e29b-41d4-a716-446655440000');

console.log(managedAccount.data);

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

Updates the specified managed account's attributes and returns the updated account.

`PATCH /managed_accounts/{id}`

Optional: `managed_account_allow_custom_pricing` (boolean)

const managedAccount = await client.managedAccounts.update('550e8400-e29b-41d4-a716-446655440000');

console.log(managedAccount.data);

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