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A Telegram mini app shop lets people browse your products without leaving Telegram. If you already sell on Getly, you do not have to rebuild your catalogue for it. Getly works with its partner BotLaunch: you press Launch in your dashboard, pick a bot on BotLaunch, and your live products appear as a storefront inside Telegram. Every purchase still goes through the normal Getly checkout, and because the buyer came through your own Telegram store, it counts as your own traffic: you keep 90% of the sale.
This guide walks through the setup step by step, explains what stays on Getly and what BotLaunch does, and lists the limits worth knowing before you announce the store to your channel.
What the Telegram Store is, in plain terms
The Telegram Store is a Telegram Mini App storefront built from your live Getly catalogue. BotLaunch, a platform for building Telegram bots and Mini App stores without code, hosts the storefront and attaches it to a bot you own. Getly provides the products and handles the money.
- Your products, not a copy you maintain. The storefront is filled from your live Getly listings and kept in sync every hour.
- Getly checkout for every purchase. Each "Buy" button opens your normal Getly checkout. There is no separate payment system inside Telegram and no Telegram Stars.
- Own-traffic rate. A purchase inside your Telegram Mini App store is charged at 10%, whatever your volume tier.
- Read-only access. BotLaunch gets a one-time, read-only link to your catalogue. It can show your products. It cannot change them.
The full partner story, including the template import flow for buyers, is on the BotLaunch partner page.
Before you start: what you need
Three things have to be in place. Check them first and the setup itself takes a few minutes.
- A Getly store with live listings. The storefront is built from your live catalogue, so drafts and listings still in review will not show. Every new listing on Getly is reviewed before it goes live, usually within a few hours. If you are about to add products for the Telegram launch, publish them a day ahead.
- A Telegram bot. The storefront is attached to a bot you own. You create one in Telegram with BotFather, Telegram's own bot for making bots. Choose a name and a username your buyers will recognise, because that is what they will open.
- A payout wallet on Getly. Telegram sales are paid out like every other Getly sale, in USDT or USDC. If you have not added a wallet yet, do it in Settings, Payments, so your first payout is not held up.
Step by step: launch your Telegram Mini App shop
- Create the bot in BotFather. Open BotFather in Telegram and follow its prompts to create a new bot. Keep the bot details BotFather gives you private: they control the bot.
- Open the "Telegram Store" page in your Getly dashboard. It is part of the seller dashboard, next to your other store tools.
- Click Launch. This hands BotLaunch a one-time, read-only link to your catalogue and takes you over to BotLaunch.
- On BotLaunch, pick your bot. Choose the bot you created in step 1. BotLaunch's own screens guide you through connecting it; follow them there, since that part of the flow belongs to BotLaunch.
- Let BotLaunch provision the storefront. BotLaunch builds the Mini App store with your live Getly products.
- Open the bot yourself and check it. Browse the products as a buyer would, open a product, and press Buy to confirm it takes you to the Getly checkout.
- Share the bot. Pin it in your channel, put it in your Telegram profile, mention it in posts. Every purchase that starts there is your own traffic.
If you sign up for BotLaunch through Getly's link, BotLaunch gives you a welcome bonus. The amount is set by BotLaunch, so check it on their side.
How the storefront stays up to date
You keep managing products on Getly, the same way as before. The storefront follows.
- Hourly sync. BotLaunch refreshes your products every hour. A price change or a new cover on Getly shows up in Telegram after the next sync, not the same second.
- New products wait for review first. A new listing appears in the bot only after it is approved on Getly and the next hourly sync has run. In practice: review usually takes a few hours, then up to an hour more.
- Edits to live listings stay live. On Getly, editing a listing that is already live does not send it back to review, so small fixes reach Telegram with the next sync.
- Nothing to edit on BotLaunch. The access BotLaunch has is read-only. If something is wrong in the bot, fix it on Getly.
What happens when someone buys inside Telegram
The buyer browses in Telegram, taps a product and presses Buy. That opens your normal Getly checkout. From there it is an ordinary Getly order.
- Payment. The buyer pays by card, with Apple Pay or Google Pay where their device and country support it, or with USDT or USDC stablecoins. PayPal is not accepted. No Getly account is needed to buy.
- Delivery. Card orders deliver the files right after payment. Crypto orders deliver once the payment is confirmed on the network. The receipt email carries a download link for every file.
- Refunds. The buyer has a 30-day refund window, and refund requests are reviewed by the Getly team, exactly as for any other order.
Where the money goes
| Item | Telegram Store sale | Ordinary marketplace sale |
|---|---|---|
| Checkout | Getly checkout | Getly checkout |
| Platform take | 10% (own traffic), any volume tier | 20% base, lower on volume tiers |
| You keep | 90% | 80% base; 83%, 85% or 88% on volume tiers; 90% in a new store's first 90 days |
| Payout | USDT/USDC on the 1st and 15th | USDT/USDC on the 1st and 15th |
| Refunds | Handled on Getly | Handled on Getly |
| Telegram Stars | Not used | Not used |
Getly always applies whichever rate is best for you, so the own-traffic rate can only help. One honest exception: Getly never takes less than its payment-processing cost plus 2%. On card orders the processing cost includes a fixed $0.30 per order (2.9% + $0.30), so on very small card sales, under about $6, that fixed part pushes the cost above 10% and the order pays the floor instead. The full model is on the pricing page.
When you get paid
Telegram Store sales join your normal Getly balance. Payouts run on the 1st and the 15th of every month, in USDT or USDC to your own wallet on BNB Smart Chain or Tron.
- Hold of about a month. A sale made from the 1st to the 15th is paid on the 15th of the next month. A sale made from the 16th to the end of the month is paid on the 1st of the month after that.
- Minimums. $5 on BNB Smart Chain, $15 on Tron. A smaller balance is not lost: it carries over until it clears the minimum.
- Network fee. The transfer fee comes out of your payout. BNB Smart Chain is the cheapest, roughly ten cents a transfer.
- New wallet, one cycle later. When you set or change your payout wallet, the next payout waits one cycle as a security hold.
Other ways to get the own-traffic rate
The Telegram Store is one of three routes where you keep 90% of a sale you brought in yourself:
- Your personal ?sref= link. Every store already has one: it is in /dashboard/payouts, on the "Your rate" card. A purchase from your store within 24 hours of a click on it is charged at 10%. You can add ?sref=your-store-slug to a product page link too.
- The Pay-Widget. A sale through a widget you embed on your own website is charged at 10%.
- The Telegram Store. A purchase inside your Telegram Mini App store, as described above.
They work side by side. A practical setup: the bot pinned in your Telegram channel, the ?sref= link in posts elsewhere, and the widget on your own site.
For buyers: Telegram and bot templates with "Import to BotLaunch"
There is a second, separate BotLaunch connection on Getly. BotLaunch templates are sold on Getly in the Telegram & Bots category, and any author can connect their Getly store to BotLaunch to publish them. When you buy such a template, the order carries a licence key, and an "Import to BotLaunch" button appears next to the key on your purchases page and on the order confirmation page. One click opens BotLaunch with the key filled in, and the template is imported into your workspace. The button only appears for Telegram & Bots products that come with a licence key; other products do not have it.
Limits to know before you announce it
- Only live, approved listings appear. Products in review do not.
- Changes reach Telegram with the hourly sync, not at the moment you save.
- You need your own bot from BotFather; the storefront is attached to it.
- Payment always happens on the Getly checkout, never in Telegram Stars.
- Everything on BotLaunch's side of the setup belongs to BotLaunch. Ask BotLaunch about it.
