Telephone Preference Service
The Telephone Preference Service (TPS) serves as the UK's sole official 'Do Not Call' register for both landlines and mobile numbers. It empowers individuals and businesses to opt out of receiving unsolicited live sales and marketing calls. Once a number is registered with the TPS, organisations are obligated by law to abstain from making calls to it.
The TPS Screener application retrieves a compilation of individuals who have completed registration through the TPS.
Subsequently, an FT service can leverage the TPS Screener to intelligently refine the list of recipients, ensuring that marketing communications are directed only to the appropriate individuals.
- Node ^18.x.x
- Doppler CLI if new to Doppler click to install the CLI.
To spin up the local instance of the production app, run the commands below:
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Replace the start command with
"start:prod-from-local": "doppler run -p ft-tps-screener -c prod -- node app.js"in package.json. -
Note: Ensure the start command is reverted to its original state before merge into prod.
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Run
doppler logincommand -
Run
npm run postinstallcommand -
Run
npm run startcommand
Enter a UK number in the browser's search bar; if it's registered, it's important to refrain from contacting for sales and marketing purposes.
There is currently no staging environment to test this app.
Logging for the updateNumber.js file is sent to Splunk from Heroku. Functions in this file update the numbers stored in the email-platform-ftcom-tps S3 bucket after checking TPS as necessary. Updates to numbers found are written to the ft-email_platform_tps_lookup DynamoDB table.
updateNumber.js runs everyday at 11pm as specified in the Heroku scheduler.
See the Splunk query below:
index=heroku source="ft-tps-screener" host="ft-tps-screener.herokuapp.com"
View errors using this search query
index=heroku source="ft-tps-screener" host="ft-tps-screener.herokuapp.com" level="error"
There is currently no alerting for this app.
This system uses Change API to log changes to this app. A deployment will trigger a Change API alert in the #CRM Alerts Slack channel
Any merge to master will trigger a deployment to Heroku.