# `bird verify verifications next-channel`

## Usage

```bash
bird verify verifications next-channel [flags]
```

## Description

Send a fresh passcode on the next channel, for a recipient who never received it

Identify the verification by the same recipient it was started for (--phone-number
and/or --email); no verification id is needed. The send skips the resend
cooldown, and every passcode already sent stays valid, so a late arrival can still
be checked. The result is the verification with "last_channel" set to the channel
the new passcode went to. A verification whose channel plan is exhausted returns
422 NoNextChannel — re-create the verification to resend on the current channel.

Build the request from flags, a JSON VerificationNextChannelRequest body via --body-file ("-" reads
stdin), or both — a flag overrides the matching body field. Run --example to
print a ready-to-edit body, or --dry-run to print the resolved request without
sending it.

## Procedure

Step 3 of 3 of "Verify a recipient with a one-time passcode". Previous: bird verify verifications check.

## Examples

```bash
# print the body shape (no credentials needed)
bird verify verifications next-channel --example

# the body it prints:
```

```json
{
  "to": {
    "phone_number": "+15551234567"
  }
}
```

```bash
# the recipient says the SMS never arrived
bird verify verifications next-channel --phone-number +15551234567
```

## Options

#### Recipient

| Name             | Description                                                     |
| ---------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `--email`        | Recipient email address the verification was started for        |
| `--phone-number` | Recipient phone number (E.164) the verification was started for |

#### Request

| Name                | Description                                                  |
| ------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------ |
| `--body-file`       | Read the JSON request body from this file; "-" reads stdin   |
| `--example`         | Print a complete example request body, then exit             |
| `--dry-run`         | Print the resolved request without sending it, then exit     |
| `--idempotency-key` | Deduplication key; a retry with the same key won't act twice |

#### Options

| Name                | Description                                      |
| ------------------- | ------------------------------------------------ |
| `--response-schema` | Print the fields this command returns, then exit |

## Related

| Name                                                                                  | Description                                                      |
| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------- |
| [`bird verify verifications check`](/docs/cli/reference/verify-verifications-check)   | Check a passcode a recipient submitted for their verification    |
| [`bird verify verifications create`](/docs/cli/reference/verify-verifications-create) | Start a verification and send a one-time passcode to a recipient |