---
title: "Send SMS with One Time Password for onboarding"
url: "https://developer.incode.com/api-reference/send-otp/"
section: "api-reference"
group: "Onboarding"
version: "v1.1"
status: "live"
endpoint: "GET /omni/send/otp"
---
# Send SMS with One Time Password for onboarding

`GET /omni/send/otp`

Base URL: `https://demo-api.incodesmile.com` — Incode demo environment

Send SMS with an OTP (One Time Password) code to validate an onboarding.
Phone number is obtained from interview data, so phone step it's required.

## Path & query parameters

| Name | In | Type | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `communicationchannel` | query | string |  | Enum: `SMS`, `EMAIL` |
| `api-version` | header | string | yes |  |

## Responses

### 200

OTP sent successfully

Response body (`application/json`):

| Field | Type | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `success` | boolean |  | Flag indicating request passed successfully. |
| `sessionStatus` | string |  | Session status Enum: `Alive`, `Closed`, `Deleted` |

### 400

Contact Already Verified - The phone/email is already verified for this session

Response body (`application/json`):

| Field | Type | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `timestamp` | integer (int64) |  | UTC timestamp in milliseconds |
| `status` | integer (int32) |  | Custom error code or HTTP status code |
| `error` | string |  | HTTP status error |
| `message` | string |  | Custom error message |
| `path` | string |  | Endpoint path |
| `details` | object |  | Custom error details |

```json
{
  "timestamp": 1234567890,
  "status": 4300,
  "error": "Contact Already Verified",
  "message": "OtpException: Session has verified contact",
  "path": "/omni/send/sms-otp"
}
```

### 429

Too Many Requests - Cooldown period not completed

Response body (`application/json`):

| Field | Type | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `timestamp` | integer (int64) |  | UTC timestamp in milliseconds |
| `status` | integer (int32) |  | Custom error code or HTTP status code |
| `error` | string |  | HTTP status error |
| `message` | string |  | Custom error message |
| `path` | string |  | Endpoint path |
| `details` | object |  | Custom error details |

## Code samples

Generated from this endpoint's method, path, and the conventional Incode headers. The base URL is the Incode demo environment; replace `<YOUR_API_KEY>` with a key for your region.

### cURL

```bash
curl -X GET https://demo-api.incodesmile.com/omni/send/otp \
  -H "x-api-key: <YOUR_API_KEY>" \
  -H "api-version: 1.0"
```

### Node

```js
const res = await fetch("https://demo-api.incodesmile.com/omni/send/otp", {
  method: "GET",
  headers: {
      "x-api-key": "<YOUR_API_KEY>",
      "api-version": "1.0",
  },
});
const data = await res.json();
```

### Python

```python
import requests

headers = {
    "x-api-key": "<YOUR_API_KEY>",
    "api-version": "1.0",
}
res = requests.get("https://demo-api.incodesmile.com/omni/send/otp", headers=headers)
data = res.json()
```

### Java

```java
HttpRequest req = HttpRequest.newBuilder()
    .uri(URI.create("https://demo-api.incodesmile.com/omni/send/otp"))
    .header("x-api-key", "<YOUR_API_KEY>")
    .header("api-version", "1.0")
    .method("GET", HttpRequest.BodyPublishers.noBody())
    .build();
HttpResponse<String> res = HttpClient.newHttpClient()
    .send(req, HttpResponse.BodyHandlers.ofString());
```

### Example response

```json
{
  "success": true,
  "status": "OK"
}
```