generated: '2026-07-25' method: searched source: https://sms.optus.com.au/docs/en/ and https://status.sms.optus.com.au/ scope: >- Covers The Optus SMS Suite, the only self-serve public API surface Optus operates. Optus publishes no lifecycle policy for any other API estate (developer.optus.com.au and api.optus.com.au return HTTP 403; the IoT Control Centre is sales-gated). versioning: scheme: uri-path also: custom media types on selected interfaces interfaces: - api: SMS Gateway REST API v1 current: v1 base: https://api.sms.optus.com.au/rest/gateway media_type: application/vnd.modica.gateway.v1+json docs: https://sms.optus.com.au/docs/en/integrations/messaging-apis/sms-apis/rest-v1/ - api: SMS Gateway REST API v2 current: v2 base: https://api.sms.optus.com.au/rest/sms/v2 media_type: application/json docs: https://sms.optus.com.au/docs/en/integrations/api-documentation/rest-v2/ note: Recommended for all new SMS integrations. - api: Campaign Manager API current: v1 base: https://api.sms.optus.com.au/rest/campaign_manager/v1 docs: https://sms.optus.com.au/docs/en/integrations/messaging-apis/sms-apis/campaign-manager-api/ - api: 2FA REST API current: v1 base: https://api.sms.optus.com.au/rest/2fa media_type: application/vnd.modica.2fa.v1+json docs: https://sms.optus.com.au/docs/en/integrations/messaging-apis/2fa/ - api: REST Email API current: v1 base: https://api.sms.optus.com.au/rest/email/v1 docs: https://sms.optus.com.au/docs/en/integrations/api-documentation/rest-email/ - api: Health Monitoring API current: v1 base: https://api.sms.optus.com.au/rest/services/v1 docs: https://sms.optus.com.au/docs/en/integrations/api-documentation/health-api/ - api: HTTPS API current: v2 base: https://api.sms.optus.com.au/message note: >- Version is selected per request with the `version` query parameter; v1 and v2 differ in HTTP response codes for the same error conditions. docs: https://sms.optus.com.au/docs/en/integrations/messaging-apis/sms-apis/https/ - api: MM7 MMS API current: 3GPP MM7 5.3.0 base: https://api.sms.optus.com.au/mm7 docs: https://sms.optus.com.au/docs/en/integrations/messaging-apis/mm7/ - api: SMPP API current: SMPP 3.3 and 3.4 transport: TLS 1.2+ on port 2776 docs: https://sms.optus.com.au/docs/en/integrations/messaging-apis/sms-apis/smpp/ deprecation: policy_url: https://sms.optus.com.au/docs/en/integrations/messaging-apis/sms-apis/https/ sunset_header: false deprecation_header: false published_policy_document: false practice: >- Deprecations are announced in-page as a warning banner on the affected interface's documentation, with a stated intent to give advance notice, timelines, and a migration path before changes take effect. There is no machine-readable Sunset/Deprecation header (RFC 8594) and no separate versioning/deprecation policy document. announced: - api: HTTPS API status: deprecation-announced url: https://sms.optus.com.au/docs/en/integrations/messaging-apis/sms-apis/https/ quote: >- Important: We're reviewing the future of our HTTP API and expect it to be deprecated within the next 12 months. The API remains fully supported today. We are currently defining the migration path and will provide advance notice, timelines, and guidance before any changes take effect. successor: SMS Gateway REST API v2 - api: SOAP API status: deprecation-announced url: https://sms.optus.com.au/docs/en/integrations/messaging-apis/sms-apis/soap/ quote: >- Important: We're reviewing the future of our SOAP API and expect it to be deprecated within the next 12 months. The API remains fully supported today. We are currently defining the migration path and will provide advance notice, timelines, and guidance before any changes take effect. successor: SMS Gateway REST API v2 - api: SMS Gateway REST API v1 status: superseded-not-deprecated note: >- Documentation steers new integrations to v2 and describes v1 as useful only for maintaining existing integrations, but v1 carries no deprecation notice. - api: Web2SMS legacy Inbox status: retiring url: https://sms.optus.com.au/docs/en/product-news/web2sms-inbox/ note: Platform (non-API) feature announced as retiring in the 2025-08-10 product news post. deprecated_operations: [] status_page: url: https://status.sms.optus.com.au/ platform: Atlassian Statuspage page_id: q3vx3n2yhxf2 time_zone: Australia/Brisbane api: summary: https://status.sms.optus.com.au/api/v2/summary.json status: https://status.sms.optus.com.au/api/v2/status.json components: https://status.sms.optus.com.au/api/v2/components.json incidents: https://status.sms.optus.com.au/api/v2/incidents.json scheduled_maintenances: https://status.sms.optus.com.au/api/v2/scheduled-maintenances.json rss: https://status.sms.optus.com.au/history.rss components_tracked: 17 components: - Mobile Gateway (API) - Campaign Manager - Two Factor Authentication - Email2SMS - Web2SMS - Mobile Studio - Mobile Report - Subscriptions - Sending Hours - Company Admin - Applications - Single Sign On (SSO) - Optus Digital Messaging for NICE CXOne - Optus SMS Suite Service Desk - Mobile Operators - Australia - Rest of the World health_api: https://api.sms.optus.com.au/rest/services/v1/status note: >- A second, machine-readable availability signal exists independent of the status page: the unauthenticated Health Monitoring API polls each service every 60 seconds from an external, geographically distributed provider. maintenance_history: source: https://status.sms.optus.com.au/api/v2/scheduled-maintenances.json records: 23 recent: - {date: '2026-02-27', title: 'Urgent Action Required for Optus SMS Suite: SSL Certificate Update', status: completed} - {date: '2025-10-16', title: API Scheduled Maintenance, status: completed} - {date: '2025-10-15', title: API Scheduled Maintenance, status: completed} - {date: '2025-06-30', title: '*.sms.optus.com.au SSL Certificate Renewal', status: completed} - {date: '2024-07-03', title: '*.sms.optus.com.au SSL Certificate Renewal', status: completed} incident_history: source: https://status.sms.optus.com.au/api/v2/incidents.json records: 50 recent: - {date: '2026-07-15', title: Delayed Message Delivery, impact: minor, status: resolved} - {date: '2026-05-08', title: Degraded Performance, impact: minor, status: resolved} - {date: '2026-03-27', title: Delayed delivery - SMS Messages, impact: none, status: resolved} - {date: '2026-02-26', title: "Campaign Manager – Large Campaign Processing Delays", impact: minor, status: resolved} - {date: '2026-02-09', title: Delivery Issue Australia - Telstra, impact: minor, status: resolved} certificate_lifecycle: docs: https://sms.optus.com.au/docs/en/integrations/api-documentation/ssl-certificates/ practice: >- Current intermediate CA and leaf certificates for *.sms.optus.com.au are published in PEM in the docs, with a documented recommendation to pin the intermediate rather than the leaf. Certificate changes are announced in advance as scheduled maintenance on the status page. The current pair was made active 2026-02-27. sla: published: false note: >- No uptime target or SLA document is published on the public developer surface; commercial terms sit under the Optus Standard Form of Agreement for business customers. terms: https://www.optus.com.au/about/legal/standard-forms-agreement/business browser_support_policy: https://sms.optus.com.au/docs/en/useful-information/browser-support-policy/