/telnyx-account-management-python

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

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Telnyx Account Management - Python

Installation

pip install telnyx

Setup

import os
from telnyx import Telnyx

client = Telnyx(
    api_key=os.environ.get("TELNYX_API_KEY"),  # This is the default and can be omitted
    public_key=os.environ.get("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:

import telnyx

try:
    result = client.messages.send(to="+13125550001", from_="+13125550002", text="Hello")
except telnyx.APIConnectionError:
    print("Network error — check connectivity and retry")
    raise
except telnyx.RateLimitError:
    # 429: rate limited — wait, then retry the request (bounded exponential backoff)
    import time
    time.sleep(1)  # Check Retry-After header for actual delay
    # ...retry the call here (give up after a few attempts); otherwise re-raise:
    raise
except telnyx.APIStatusError as e:
    print(f"API error {e.status_code}: {e.message}")
    if e.status_code == 422:
        print("Validation error — check required fields and formats")
    raise  # 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 item in page_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`

page = client.managed_accounts.list()
page = page.data[0]
print(page.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)

managed_account = client.managed_accounts.create(
    business_name="Larry's Cat Food Inc",
)
print(managed_account.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`

response = client.managed_accounts.get_allocatable_global_outbound_channels()
print(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}`

managed_account = client.managed_accounts.retrieve("550e8400-e29b-41d4-a716-446655440000",
)
print(managed_account.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)

managed_account = client.managed_accounts.update(
    id="550e8400-e29b-41d4-a716-446655440000",
)
print(managed_account.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 via the mission control portal.

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

response = client.managed_accounts.actions.disable("550e8400-e29b-41d4-a716-446655440000",
)
print(response.data)

Returns: `api_key` (string), `api_token` (string), `api_user` (string), `balance` (object), `created_at` (string), `email` (email), `id`