How to Connect a Telegram Bot to Clientish

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Create a bot with BotFather, paste its token, and answer Telegram messages from clients in Live Chat.

In Clientish, you connect Telegram with a bot: clients message your bot, and your team answers them from Live Chat. Setting it up takes one token from Telegram’s @BotFather.

Applies to: Starter, Growth, Pro and Enterprise (not on Solo)
Who can do it: the workspace owner, and team members who are allowed into Settings

Before You Begin

  • Create a bot in Telegram: message @BotFather, send /newbot, follow its questions and copy the token it gives you.

How to Connect a Telegram Bot

  1. Open the Telegram form

    Go to Settings → WhatsApp, SMS, Telegram (under Communication) and click Add channel. Choose Telegram bot.

  2. Paste the token

    Give the channel a name and paste the Bot token. Clientish checks it with Telegram and connects the bot automatically; the card then shows the bot’s @username.

    Telegram bot form with the channel name and the bot token from BotFather
  3. Share your bot

    Send clients the bot’s @username or link. Once a client starts a chat with the bot, their messages appear in Live Chat.

Telegram Connection Problems

“Telegram did not accept this bot token”⌄
Copy the token again from @BotFather. It looks like a number, a colon and a long code.
A reply to a client won’t send⌄
Telegram only lets a bot write to people who messaged it first. If the client blocked the bot or never started a chat, ask them to open the bot and press Start.
Messages from a group don’t show⌄
Only private chats with the bot come into Live Chat; group and channel messages don’t.

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