# Submit an Apple Messages for Business business for review

`POST /v1/amb/business-accounts/{business_account_id}/submissions`

Submits an account for review, making its name, Apple UUID and three uploaded evidence attachments available to Bird staff. This does not approve the account.

## Code samples

**TypeScript**

```ts
const result = await bird.amb.businessAccounts.submissions.create(
  "abz_01krdgeqcxet5s7t44vh8rt9mg",
  {
    readiness_attachment_id: "tca_01krdgeqcxet5s7t44vh8rt9mg",
    use_cases_attachment_id: "tca_01krdgeqcxet5s7t44vh8rt9mh",
    video_attachment_id: "tca_01krdgeqcxet5s7t44vh8rt9mj",
  },
);
console.log(result);
```

Examples: [TypeScript](/docs/api/reference/create-amb-business-account-submission.ts.md) · [Python](/docs/api/reference/create-amb-business-account-submission.py.md) · [Go](/docs/api/reference/create-amb-business-account-submission.go.md) · [PHP](/docs/api/reference/create-amb-business-account-submission.php.md) · [CLI](/docs/api/reference/create-amb-business-account-submission.cli.md) · [MCP](/docs/api/reference/create-amb-business-account-submission.mcp.md) · [cURL](/docs/api/reference/create-amb-business-account-submission.curl.md)

## Example response `201`

```json
{
  "id": "abs_01krdgeqcxet5s7t44vh8rt9mg",
  "business_account_id": "abz_01krdgeqcxet5s7t44vh8rt9mg",
  "readiness_attachment": {
    "created_at": "2026-05-20T09:14:52Z",
    "updated_at": "2026-05-25T16:42:01Z",
    "id": "tca_01krdgeqcxet5s7t44vh8rt9mg",
    "status": "draft"
  },
  "use_cases_attachment": {
    "created_at": "2026-05-20T09:14:52Z",
    "updated_at": "2026-05-25T16:42:01Z",
    "id": "tca_01krdgeqcxet5s7t44vh8rt9mg",
    "status": "draft"
  },
  "video_attachment": {
    "created_at": "2026-05-20T09:14:52Z",
    "updated_at": "2026-05-25T16:42:01Z",
    "id": "tca_01krdgeqcxet5s7t44vh8rt9mg",
    "status": "draft"
  },
  "status": "submitted",
  "next": [
    {
      "kind": "operation"
    }
  ]
}
```

## Path parameters

- `business_account_id` (string)

## Request body

- `readiness_attachment_id` (string, required): Uploaded PDF attachment containing the business readiness assessment.
- `use_cases_attachment_id` (string, required): Uploaded PDF attachment describing the proposed customer use cases.
- `video_attachment_id` (string, required): Uploaded MP4 attachment demonstrating the customer experience.

## Response body

- `id` (string, required)
- `business_account_id` (string, required)
- `apple_business_id` (string, required): The Apple business UUID frozen when this attempt was submitted.
- `name` (string, required): The customer-supplied Bird account name frozen when this attempt was submitted.
- `readiness_attachment` (object, required)
- `readiness_attachment.created_at` (string, required)
- `readiness_attachment.updated_at` (string, required)
- `readiness_attachment.id` (string, required)
- `readiness_attachment.filename` (string, required): The uploaded file's name.
- `readiness_attachment.content_type` (string, required): The file's content type, determined from its contents.
- `readiness_attachment.size_bytes` (integer, required): The file's size in bytes.
- `readiness_attachment.description` (string): A short note describing what the file shows.
- `readiness_attachment.status` (string, required)

  Lifecycle of an attachment. `draft` is a file that has been uploaded but nothing
  has been registered or submitted with it yet, and it is discarded at its
  `expires_at`. `attached` means at least one registration has cited it, so it is
  kept permanently and can no longer be deleted.

  Possible values: `draft`, `attached`
- `readiness_attachment.download_url` (string, required): Short-lived signed URL for downloading or previewing the attachment. Valid for 24 hours from when the resource was fetched; request a fresh resource to obtain a new URL after expiry. Do not cache beyond `download_url_expires_at`. Registration authorities (10DLC and toll-free carriers) retrieve evidence via a separate, longer-lived token; this URL is not that token.
- `readiness_attachment.preview_url` (string): Optional signed URL for inline viewing on an isolated storage origin. Valid for one hour; fetch the attachment again to refresh it.
- `readiness_attachment.download_url_expires_at` (string, required): When `download_url` expires. Both fields are always present; the server returns an error rather than omitting them.
- `readiness_attachment.expires_at` (nullable string, required): When this attachment is discarded if nothing is registered or submitted with it. Null once its status is `attached`.
- `use_cases_attachment` (object, required)
- `use_cases_attachment.created_at` (string, required)
- `use_cases_attachment.updated_at` (string, required)
- `use_cases_attachment.id` (string, required)
- `use_cases_attachment.filename` (string, required): The uploaded file's name.
- `use_cases_attachment.content_type` (string, required): The file's content type, determined from its contents.
- `use_cases_attachment.size_bytes` (integer, required): The file's size in bytes.
- `use_cases_attachment.description` (string): A short note describing what the file shows.
- `use_cases_attachment.status` (string, required)

  Lifecycle of an attachment. `draft` is a file that has been uploaded but nothing
  has been registered or submitted with it yet, and it is discarded at its
  `expires_at`. `attached` means at least one registration has cited it, so it is
  kept permanently and can no longer be deleted.

  Possible values: `draft`, `attached`
- `use_cases_attachment.download_url` (string, required): Short-lived signed URL for downloading or previewing the attachment. Valid for 24 hours from when the resource was fetched; request a fresh resource to obtain a new URL after expiry. Do not cache beyond `download_url_expires_at`. Registration authorities (10DLC and toll-free carriers) retrieve evidence via a separate, longer-lived token; this URL is not that token.
- `use_cases_attachment.preview_url` (string): Optional signed URL for inline viewing on an isolated storage origin. Valid for one hour; fetch the attachment again to refresh it.
- `use_cases_attachment.download_url_expires_at` (string, required): When `download_url` expires. Both fields are always present; the server returns an error rather than omitting them.
- `use_cases_attachment.expires_at` (nullable string, required): When this attachment is discarded if nothing is registered or submitted with it. Null once its status is `attached`.
- `video_attachment` (object, required)
- `video_attachment.created_at` (string, required)
- `video_attachment.updated_at` (string, required)
- `video_attachment.id` (string, required)
- `video_attachment.filename` (string, required): The uploaded file's name.
- `video_attachment.content_type` (string, required): The file's content type, determined from its contents.
- `video_attachment.size_bytes` (integer, required): The file's size in bytes.
- `video_attachment.description` (string): A short note describing what the file shows.
- `video_attachment.status` (string, required)

  Lifecycle of an attachment. `draft` is a file that has been uploaded but nothing
  has been registered or submitted with it yet, and it is discarded at its
  `expires_at`. `attached` means at least one registration has cited it, so it is
  kept permanently and can no longer be deleted.

  Possible values: `draft`, `attached`
- `video_attachment.download_url` (string, required): Short-lived signed URL for downloading or previewing the attachment. Valid for 24 hours from when the resource was fetched; request a fresh resource to obtain a new URL after expiry. Do not cache beyond `download_url_expires_at`. Registration authorities (10DLC and toll-free carriers) retrieve evidence via a separate, longer-lived token; this URL is not that token.
- `video_attachment.preview_url` (string): Optional signed URL for inline viewing on an isolated storage origin. Valid for one hour; fetch the attachment again to refresh it.
- `video_attachment.download_url_expires_at` (string, required): When `download_url` expires. Both fields are always present; the server returns an error rather than omitting them.
- `video_attachment.expires_at` (nullable string, required): When this attachment is discarded if nothing is registered or submitted with it. Null once its status is `attached`.
- `status` (string, required): The review outcome of this attempt. Earlier attempts retain their outcome when a new attempt is submitted.
- `status_reason` (nullable string, required)
- `created_at` (string, required)
- `next` (array of object): Read the parent business account for current eligibility and next actions. Present on create responses and each customer submission-list item; historical attempts do not establish current account state.
- `next.kind` (string, required)

  What you do about this step.

  - `operation`: call the operation named in `operation`, then
    read again.
  - `external`: act somewhere this API does not reach, then read
    again.
  - `wait`: nothing is asked of you, so read again later.
  - `terminal`: nothing you do resolves this, so stop retrying.

  Tolerate a value you do not recognize: show the `description` and
  offer no action.

  Possible values (may grow over time): `operation`, `external`, `wait`, `terminal`
- `next.description` (string, required): A short, human-readable label for the step, suitable for display.
- `next.operation` (string): The operationId to call. Present only when `kind` is `operation`. The operation's own schema says how to call it; this says only which one, and what to address it with.
- `next.params` (object): The parameters that address the operation, by name: `{"sender_id": "…"}` for an operation on `/v1/sms/senders/{sender_id}/requirements`. A parameter the operation takes in its query string is given the same way, so an operation addressed as `?subject_id=` carries `{"subject_id": "…"}`. Every parameter the call needs is here, whether its value came from the thing you were acting on or is fixed for this step, so you can make the call from this object alone. Present only when `kind` is `operation` and the operation names a subject. A request body, when the operation takes one, is described by the operation's own schema and never appears here.
- `next.url` (string): A URL to open. Present only when `kind` is `external`, and only when the step has one. An external step whose `description` says to go and do something with no URL to open is normal.
- `updated_at` (string, required)

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- [Should I use a Bird SDK or call the API directly?](/explained/platform/should-i-use-an-sdk-or-call-the-api-directly) (answer)
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