Telegram channels are where announcements, deals, news and community updates actually get read — and where most social media tools stop. Teams end up posting by hand from a phone, keeping a private admin group for "who posts what", and moderating comments at midnight. Nimply treats Telegram as a first-class channel: the same planner, approvals, inbox, analytics and agents you use everywhere else.
Connecting takes a minute and never involves BotFather. You add the Nimply bot as an administrator of your channel or group, confirm it in Nimply, and the channel appears in your planner. If your channel has a discussion group, add the bot there too and comments start flowing into your inbox. Your own personal DMs can join the inbox through Telegram Business, and a bot in your own brand's name can serve as a support and lead-capture inbox.
What does the Telegram channel integration do?
Publishing: compose a post once, pick your Telegram channel or group alongside your other accounts, and schedule it. Posts support text, photos, videos, GIFs, documents, albums of up to ten items and polls. Telegram-specific options live in the composer: up to three rows of URL buttons under the post, silent delivery without a notification sound, protected content that subscribers cannot forward or save, link-preview control, blurred spoiler media, pin-after-publish and an auto-delete timer of 24 hours to 7 days — handy for sponsored posts. Every post goes through the same draft → approval → schedule rail as the rest of your content.
After publishing: Telegram is the only platform whose API lets a tool change a live post, so Nimply lets you fix a typo or update a price in a published post from the planner, or remove it from the channel entirely. Inbox: comments under your posts arrive through the channel's discussion group, together with group messages and reactions; you reply, delete, mute a member for 24 hours or ban them without leaving Nimply. Personal DMs route into the inbox through Telegram Business (this needs Telegram Premium on your account), and replies go out from your own account inside Telegram's 24-hour reply window. Analytics show members, joins and leaves by invite link, reactions and comments per post. Views and reach are not exposed by Telegram's Bot API, so they stay in Telegram's built-in statistics — we do not pretend otherwise.
The Nimply bot also keeps its original job as your workspace remote control: link it to a private chat or team group and it sends publish and failure alerts, delivers approval requests with one-tap Approve and Reject buttons, answers /status, /queue and /pending, and turns any text you send it in a private chat into a draft offer.
What teams do with Telegram in Nimply
Post announcements everywhere, including Telegram
Write the update once, pick Telegram next to your other channels, and let the platform-specific settings do the rest — a "Read more" button under the Telegram post, a silent send for the late-evening slot, the sponsored post set to disappear after 48 hours. Approvals happen in Nimply before anything reaches subscribers.
Fix a live post instead of deleting and reposting
A wrong price, a broken link, a typo in the headline: open the published post in the planner, edit it, and press Update on Telegram. Subscribers see the corrected post in place, with no "deleted message" gap and no second notification. If a post has to go, Remove from Telegram takes it down while Nimply keeps the record.
Keep comment threads and groups clean while you sleep
Comments under your posts land in the inbox as threads. The Community Moderator agent reviews new comments against your rules and, with the permission level you choose, deletes scam and spam messages, mutes a first offender for 24 hours or bans an obvious scammer — every decision logged as an audit note in the thread. Automations add join-request approval, welcome messages and member-joined or member-left triggers.
Answer personal DMs and run a branded support bot
Route the chats you choose from your own Telegram account into the inbox through Telegram Business, and let the Personal DM, Customer Support or Sales Lead agents draft or answer within the rails you set — the first automatic reply in a conversation tells the person they are talking to an assistant. Or paste a BotFather token for a bot in your brand's name and let customers message it directly.
Keep the channel fed with an editor that never publishes
The Telegram Channel Editor agent turns links, videos and notes into Telegram-native posts with a bold lead line and a single call-to-action button, mirrors what you publish elsewhere into the channel, or writes a weekly digest of the channel's own posts — always as drafts waiting for your approval.
Approve and monitor from a Telegram chat
Link the bot to your private chat or a team group and your phone becomes the remote control for the whole workspace: publish and failure alerts as they happen, approval requests decided with one tap, the queue a /queue away, and any text you send the bot offered back as a draft.
Connect a Telegram channel or group
You need the OWNER or ADMIN role in your Nimply workspace and admin rights on the Telegram chat. No bot creation, no tokens to copy.
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Open Telegram from the connect screen
In Nimply go to Channels → Connect → Telegram and pick Telegram Channel or Group, then click Open Telegram. The link opens a chat with the Nimply bot; press Start and it replies with Add to a channel and Add to a group buttons.
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Add the bot as an administrator
Pick your channel or group. Telegram asks which admin rights to grant — keep the pre-selected ones (post, edit, delete, pin, invite users). Nimply detects the chat automatically; if nothing shows up within a minute, post /connect with the code shown in Nimply into the chat.
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Confirm, then add the bot to your comments group
Back in Nimply the chat appears with a rights checklist — click Connect. If the channel has a discussion group, use the Add bot to comments group link on the channel page so comments reach your inbox. Personal DMs are a separate card: Telegram Business in the same connect screen (Telegram Premium required on your account).
Frequently asked questions
Do I need to create a bot with BotFather?
No. For channels, groups and personal DMs you add or connect the shared Nimply bot — no tokens involved. Creating your own bot is optional: paste a BotFather token to run a support and lead-capture inbox under your own brand name.
Can I really edit a post after it is published?
Yes. Telegram's API allows editing and deleting messages a bot has sent, so posts published through Nimply can be updated or removed from the planner. Media attachments cannot be swapped after publishing, and posts published outside Nimply are not editable from it.
What can I add to a Telegram post?
Text up to 4,096 characters, or media with a caption of up to 1,024 characters (longer text follows the media as a second message). Photos, videos, GIFs, documents, albums of two to ten items and polls, files up to 50 MB. Options: up to three rows of URL buttons, silent delivery, protected content, link-preview control, spoiler media, pin after publishing, and auto-delete after 24 hours, 48 hours, 3 days or 7 days.
Which analytics does Nimply show for Telegram?
Members, joins and leaves attributed to invite links, and reactions and comments per post. Telegram does not expose post views or reach to bots, so those stay in Telegram's own statistics.
How do comments reach the inbox?
Telegram comments live in the channel's linked discussion group. Add the Nimply bot to that group (the channel page shows a link) and each post becomes a thread in the inbox; replies, deletions, 24-hour mutes and bans work from there.
Do personal DMs need Telegram Premium?
Connecting a chatbot to your personal account happens in Telegram under Settings → Telegram Business → Chatbots, which currently requires Telegram Premium. Telegram is gradually rolling out a free Chat Automation entry that does the same. Replies are sent from your own account, only in chats active within the last 24 hours.
Do the alerts and approvals in Telegram still work?
Yes. Linking the bot to a private chat or team group from Settings → Integrations → Telegram gives you publish and failure alerts, approval requests with Approve and Reject buttons, and the /status, /queue, /pending and /channels commands, for every platform in the workspace.
How many Telegram channels can I connect?
One on the Free plan, five on Creator, fifteen on Growth and fifty on Agency. A connected channel, group, personal-DM connection or branded bot each uses one slot.
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Ready to try it?
Create a free Nimply account, connect your channels, and you're one config entry away.