{"id":2976,"date":"2026-09-18T14:40:56","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T09:10:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.smsgatewaycenter.com\/blog\/?post_type=docs&#038;p=2976"},"modified":"2026-09-18T14:40:57","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T09:10:57","password":"","slug":"what-is-an-rcs-sandbox-account-and-how-do-i-use-it","status":"publish","type":"docs","link":"https:\/\/www.smsgatewaycenter.com\/blog\/kb\/what-is-an-rcs-sandbox-account-and-how-do-i-use-it\/","title":{"rendered":"What is an RCS Sandbox Account and how do I use it?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An <strong>RCS Sandbox Account<\/strong> lets you explore RCS before you register your own brand and bot. It uses a shared test bot and ready-made test templates, so you can see how sending, templates and delivery reports work on the platform.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How to enable the sandbox<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Open the <strong>RCS<\/strong> menu and go to the RCS setup page (<strong>Add RCS<\/strong>).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Click <strong>Enable RCS Sandbox<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>When you see the confirmation, click <strong>Read Documentation<\/strong> or <strong>Send RCS Now<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While the sandbox is active, RCS pages show a banner saying you are operating within an RCS Sandbox Account.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What you can do in the sandbox<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>View the shared templates made available for testing, under <strong>RCS Templates<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Send test RCS messages with the shared sandbox bot, from <strong>Send RCS<\/strong> or with the <strong>Test<\/strong> action on a template.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Review delivery reports and summaries for your test sends.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If no sandbox templates appear, ask your account manager to make templates available on the sandbox bot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An RCS Sandbox Account lets you explore RCS before you register your own brand and bot. It uses a shared test bot and ready-made test templates, so you can see how sending, templates and delivery reports work on the platform. How to enable the sandbox While the sandbox is active, RCS pages show a banner [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":118,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"doc_category":[2257],"doc_tag":[],"class_list":["post-2976","docs","type-docs","status-publish","hentry","doc_category-rcs-getting-started"],"year_month":"2026-09","word_count":157,"total_views":"1","reactions":{"happy":"0","normal":"0","sad":"0"},"author_info":{"name":"admin","author_nicename":"admin","author_url":"https:\/\/www.smsgatewaycenter.com\/blog\/author\/admin\/"},"doc_category_info":[{"term_name":"Getting Started","term_url":"https:\/\/www.smsgatewaycenter.com\/blog\/kb-cat\/rcs-getting-started\/"}],"doc_tag_info":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smsgatewaycenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/2976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smsgatewaycenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smsgatewaycenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/docs"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smsgatewaycenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/118"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smsgatewaycenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.smsgatewaycenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/2976\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smsgatewaycenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"doc_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smsgatewaycenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_category?post=2976"},{"taxonomy":"doc_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smsgatewaycenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_tag?post=2976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}