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Telegram bot development for business

A Telegram bot for business is a program inside the messenger that takes leads, books clients, accepts payments and sends notifications without a person involved. We build these bots around your process and connect them to your site, CRM, calendars and payment systems through the API. The build starts at €200, paid once, and goes live in 2 to 10 working days.

What it costs

The service in short

  • Build from €200, paid once
  • Live in 2 to 10 working days
  • Server and domain inside the €8–€32/mo plan
  • Daily check that the bot is alive
  • The bot's source code stays yours
  • Bot usage analytics

What is a Telegram bot for business?

A Telegram bot is a program inside the messenger that talks to a person on your behalf: it takes a request, shows free dates, sends reminders or passes data into a CRM. For the client it is an ordinary chat, and there is nothing to install, because Telegram is already on their phone.

Technically the bot does not live in the app, it lives on a server. Telegram posts every message to a webhook, your code handles it and replies. That is why a bot needs hosting, a domain with SSL and supervision: if the process behind the webhook stops, Telegram shows the user no error at all, the bot simply goes quiet.

  • Nothing for the client to install
  • The bot answers around the clock and forgets nothing
  • A request lands straight in your chat, sheet or CRM
  • It runs on a server, so it needs supervision

What a bot can do

Scenarios pageever clients order

This is not a list of Telegram API features. These are the jobs people come to us with most often.

Taking leads from the site

A visitor submits the form and the message is in your chat within seconds. Nothing gets lost in spam.

Client bookings

The bot shows free slots, books the client in and reminds them a day before.

Reminders and notifications

About payment, about a visit, about a subscription running out. To you or to the client, whichever suits.

Catalogue and orders

Simple purchases right in the chat, with no separate shop. Payment goes through Telegram Payments.

Integration with CRM and spreadsheets

Leads land in Google Sheets, a CRM or your own database, wherever you actually look at them.

Answers to routine questions

Prices, opening hours, directions, order status. Anything hard goes to you, the bot closes the rest.

Messaging your own audience

A message to people who already wrote to the bot: an offer, a change of hours, a renewal reminder.

An internal bot for the team

A report every morning, numbers without opening an admin panel, alerts about events in your systems.

AI assistant

The bot answers customer questions based on your materials, helps them pick a service or product, and hands the conversation to a person when a live consultation is needed.

Who is a Telegram bot for?

  • Service businesses

    Client bookings, reminders, answers to routine questions.

  • Online shops

    Catalogue, order status, payment and support.

  • Online services

    Subscriptions, a personal account inside Telegram, AI features.

  • Teams

    Internal notifications, reports, data access and process automation.

  • Businesses running ads

    Instant capture of leads from the site, handed to a manager or a CRM.

How much does a Telegram bot cost to build?

The cost depends on the scenario, the integrations and how complex the logic is. Below are benchmarks for the most common bot types.
How much does a Telegram bot cost to build?
Bot typeWhat it doesBuildTimeline
Lead capture botA form on the site or a question in chat turns into a message to you€200–€3502–4 days
Booking botFree slots, booking, a reminder to the client the day before€350–€5504–7 days
Catalogue bot with paymentsProducts in chat, a basket and payment via Telegram Payments€550–€8007–14 days
AI assistantAnswers questions about your product in its own words, hands hard cases to a personfrom €5005–10 days
Internal team botReports, alerts and data access for your staff€250–€10003–7 days
The price does not depend on how many people use the bot. You pay for the build once and a fixed subscription for the server.

Real Telegram bot examples

Two real bots from opposite ends of the range. The first removes manual work inside a company. The second is a product in its own right, paid for by the people who use it.

Automating a routine

Automatic banner generation for a weather portal

Problem

Every day an employee manually created banners for the site, social media and ad campaigns. Each city needed its own image built with current weather data. It took almost a full workday, and any mistake meant redoing the banner.

Solution

We built a Telegram bot with a banner constructor. It fetches weather data automatically, generates images from templates, and lets you create a banner for any city and set of parameters in seconds. We also automated publishing the finished images.

Result

  • ≈€500 saved every month on manual work
  • banner creation dropped from a full day to about 10 minutes
  • adding a new city now takes minutes
  • human error is fully eliminated
  • the Telegram bot runs on the existing server with no extra hosting cost

€500/mo

saved on manual work

10 min

instead of a full workday

∞

unlimited number of cities

Subscription product

A subscription nutrition assistant

The user subscribes inside the chat and gets AI-generated recipes and meal plans, a calorie tracker, a habit tracker and reminders. On the owner's side there is an admin panel, broadcasts and a discount system. This is no longer a helper attached to a website: it is a product with its own audience, its own payments and its own retention cycle.

  • AI-generated recipes and meal plans
  • Calorie tracker
  • Habit tracker and reminders
  • Subscription payment inside the chat
  • Admin panel for content and users
  • Broadcasts and a discount system
A bot like this takes longer than a lead capture bot and is priced differently: there is dialogue state, payments, roles and content that somebody has to maintain. We quote it after a brief.
More automation cases

How it looks

How does a Telegram bot work with other services?

The bot learns where to write from your chat ID: you send it any message, it replies with your ID, the ID goes into the admin panel, and a confirmation arrives in the chat.

You → bot: hi

Bot → you: Your chat ID: 483920174

You paste that ID into the admin panel, on the “Telegram” page

Bot → you: Done. This chat is linked to pageever.com

— later, when someone submits the form on your site —

Bot → you: New lead · Olena · +380… · “Interested in a landing page”

After that the mechanism runs the other way. When someone submits the form on your site, the server checks the data, saves the lead and queues a message, and the bot delivers it to your chat within seconds.

Client
Telegram bot
Your site / CRM / calendar / payment system
Reply to the client

A bot is not limited to replying inside Telegram. Through the API and webhooks it can receive and pass data between your site, a CRM, a calendar, a payment system, spreadsheets and other services.

What it connects to

If a service has an API or webhooks, the bot can be connected to it. If there is no API, we say so at the brief, not after you have paid.
  • Telegram Bot API
  • Google Sheets
  • CRM
  • Telegram Payments
  • WayForPay
  • LiqPay
  • Google Calendar
  • Gmail
  • Google Drive
  • OpenAI · Claude
  • Make
  • n8n
  • Webhook
  • REST API

How the work goes

Six steps from your first message to a working bot. The brief and the estimate are free.

BriefYou tell us what the bot has to do and what it connects to.
ScriptWe draw the dialogue map and agree every line of it with you.
BuildWe write the code, wire up integrations and add an admin panel if one is needed.
TestingWe walk every branch of the dialogue, including the ones where the user taps the wrong thing.
LaunchWe put the bot on the server, hand over access and show you how to run it.
SupportWe keep an eye on it, and edit texts and scenarios whenever you ask.

What is included

Every bot build includes

  • A dialogue map and script agreed before work starts
  • The bot code, integrations and an admin panel if needed
  • Hosting on our server, SSL and a configured webhook
  • Testing of every dialogue branch before launch
  • Instructions and support after launch
  • The source code is yours, handed over on request

Builder, freelancer or a build at pageever

Comparison of a bot builder, a one-off freelance build and a bot from pageever
What we comparepageeverBuilderFreelancer
Arbitrary logic and integrations✓within templates✓
Paying for a serverin the planmonthly tierseparate
Who fixes it when the bot falls overwe dotheir supportas agreed
Daily check that the bot replies✓✕✕
Edits after launchin the plando it yourselfhourly rate
You keep the source code✓✕✓
Starting price€200–€1000from €0€100–€1000
Who is responsible for the resultthe pageever teamsupport chat✓

When a builder beats a custom build

If the bot only has to say hello, show a menu of three buttons and hand out a link, a builder covers that in an evening and for free. A custom build pays off when the bot has to calculate something, write somewhere or remember where the conversation left off. If a builder is enough for your case, we will say so at the brief.

Price

Why is there no single price?

A two-button bot and a bot with payments, state and an admin panel are different amounts of work. The price depends on four things:
  • How many integrations (CRM, spreadsheets, payments, calendar)
  • Whether the bot keeps the state of the dialogue
  • Whether it takes payments
  • Whether an admin panel is needed

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A bot without monitoring dies quietly

A bot is a process behind a webhook. When it falls over, Telegram shows the user no error at all: the bot simply stops replying. You find out from a client who wrote and got no answer. That is exactly why monitoring matters for a Telegram bot no less than it does for a website.
What monitoring covers

What will a bot not do?

  • It will not replace a CRM: it writes into one, it is not one.
  • It will not replace a call centre: hard objections still need a person.
  • It will not do unlimited mass messaging. Telegram has limits, and getting around them leads to a ban.
  • It cannot message first anyone who has never written to it.
  • It will not replace a website: search indexes a page, not a chat thread.
  • It will not work independently of Telegram.
This is not small print. These are limits of the platform itself, and it is better to know them before you pay rather than after.

Common questions

Do I need a separate server?
No. The bot runs on the same €8–€32 a month subscription, and there will be no separate bill for a server. That is one of the reasons bots here cost less than the market rate: the infrastructure already exists.
How much does a Telegram bot cost?
Usually €200–€1000 for the build, depending on the number of integrations, whether the bot keeps the state of the dialogue, whether it takes payments and whether an admin panel is needed. We give an exact figure after a short brief, and the review is free.
Can I connect CRM, payments or a calendar?
Yes, if the service has a proper integration. First we check what is needed: payment on the site, booking in a calendar, sending leads to a CRM or a spreadsheet. Then we give the time and price.
How long does development take?
A simple lead capture bot takes 2 to 4 working days. A bot with bookings and reminders takes up to a week. A catalogue with payments or an AI assistant takes one to two weeks. We name the timeline together with the price after the brief, and then we hold to it.
Can you take over an existing bot?
Yes, if there is source code and access to the token. We read the code, move it to our server, connect monitoring and maintain it on the subscription from then on. If there is no code and the bot was assembled in a builder, there is nothing to move and it has to be rewritten.
Who owns the code?
You do. Once the build is paid for, the code is yours: we hand over the repository or an archive on request. We do not lock the bot down or hold it hostage if you decide to move to another contractor.
Do I need a website?
No. A bot works on its own: clients open it through a t.me link from a business card, an ad, a QR code or a social profile. You need a website when you want to be found in search, because a chat thread is not indexed by Google.
Can the bot work in several languages?
Yes. The language follows the user's Telegram settings or a button inside the bot. Each extra language is another set of texts, so it adds a little to the timeline, but it does not double the price.
What happens if the bot stops replying?
We find out from monitoring rather than from your clients. A bot runs behind a webhook: when the process stops, Telegram shows the user no error. That is why a daily check of the bot is part of the subscription and is not sold separately.
Can you add AI?
Yes. We connect OpenAI or Claude so the bot answers in its own words based on your materials, helps pick a product or service, and hands the conversation to a person when a live consultation is needed. That is a separate bot type, the AI assistant, and we quote it after a brief like everything else.

Other services

Hosting and care
Website, landing, and business card creation
Automation + AI
Monitoring

Describe the task

What the bot has to do and what it connects to. Review and estimate are free, and in working hours we reply in under two hours.

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