Complete Telegram onboarding: from an empty account to the first AI reply

This is the full path for one Telegram creator, in order. Each step is one action, one expected result, one screenshot and a link to the detailed article. Follow them top to bottom and a fan writing to the creator's Telegram profile gets a real answer from the AI.

On Telegram there is no browser extension. The bridge is a bot you create in BotFather and attach to the creator's account through Telegram Business. Fans never open that bot: they keep writing to the creator's profile.

What you need before Step 1

A Telegram account you control, to own the bot. Not the creator's account.
The creator's Telegram account with Telegram Premium active, and her phone at hand.
Crypto to load your balance, or write to Greg, our CEO, for another payment method.
Photos, videos or audio files ready to upload.

Step 1: Create your OnlyChat account

Open https://app.only-chat.ai and click Sign up. Confirm you are 18 or older, fill the four short steps of the form, then type the 6-digit code sent to your email.

Result: you land on the Creators board, empty, and your organization exists.

Details: Create an account

Step 2: Put money on your balance

OnlyChat is prepaid. Click Recharge in the sidebar, choose a currency, type the amount, tick the confirmation checkbox and click Create payment. Send the exact amount from your wallet, on the network of the asset you picked.

Result: the status reaches "Payment completed" and the balance in the sidebar goes up.

Recharge Your Balance modal with the currency select and the Create payment button — Step 2. Crypto is the method offered in the interface.

Details: Balance and licenses

Step 3: Buy a Telegram license

Telegram licenses are a pool of their own, $20 per month per creator plus 15% commission on the net revenue the AI sells. Open Account, tab Balance & Licenses, click Buy Licenses, pick Telegram, choose a single license or a bulk pack, then Confirm Purchase.

Result: the Telegram Available counter shows at least 1.

Purchase Licenses modal with the Telegram offer, single license and bulk packs — Step 3. Telegram and OnlyFans licenses are separate pools.

Details: Assign a Telegram license

Step 4: Create the bot in BotFather

From the account that owns the bot, open Telegram, search for @BotFather and send /newbot. Give a display name, then a username ending in "bot". BotFather answers with the token, a line that looks like 123456789:AAHxxxx. Copy the whole line and keep it safe.

Result: you hold two things, the exact @username and the token. Never create the bot from the creator's account: the owner account is the only one that can revoke the token or change Secretary Mode.

Step 1 of the Add Telegram creator wizard, Name and identity with Creator name and Bot username — Step 4. The @username you choose here is pasted into the wizard exactly as it is.

Details: Create a Telegram bot

Step 5: Add the Telegram creator

On the Creators board, click Add creator, row Telegram. The 3-step wizard opens: Name & identity (a Creator name for your own use and the Bot username on Telegram), Bot token (paste it, the wizard checks it against Telegram), Review. Click Create my Telegram creator.

Result: the toast "Telegram creator created!" and a card showing "Not connected", "AI off" and "No active license".

Step 2 of the wizard with the bot token field and the help box — Step 5. An invalid token is refused on the spot with Invalid bot token.

Details: Add a Telegram creator

Step 6: Assign the Telegram license

On the card, click Assign License. The modal "Assign Telegram License to [name]" shows "Available Telegram licenses: N". Confirm.

Result: the card shows the expiry date and the Renew switch appears. Leave Renew on.

Platform filter chips and license counters on the Creators board — Step 6. The Telegram chip counts licenses assigned and waiting.

Details: Assign a Telegram license

Step 7: Turn Secretary Mode on and connect the bot

Click Open workspace: the setup page "Telegram setup for [creator]" opens instead of the tabs. In BotFather, from the owner account, go to /mybots, select the bot, Bot Settings, Secretary Mode, turn it on. Then on the creator's phone, with Telegram Premium active, go to Settings, Telegram Business, Chatbots, Connect your bot and pick your bot. Leave all private chats included.

Result: the first three checkboxes of Step 1 on the setup page are ticked.

Creators board with the cards, license chips and the Add creator button — Step 7. A card reading Not connected sends you to the setup page instead of the tabs.

Details: Telegram setup

Step 8: Enable the 5 permissions and verify

On the creator's phone: Settings, Telegram Business, Chatbots, your bot, Permissions. Turn on all five of the Manage Messages group: Read Messages, Reply to Messages, Mark Messages as Read, Delete Sent Messages, Delete Received Messages. Press Back in Telegram, because Telegram only sends the connection event when you leave that screen. Then tick the five boxes in OnlyChat and click Verify business connection.

Result: the setup page is replaced by the workspace, and the card shows the connected "@username" instead of "Not connected".

Creator health card on the Telegram Overview tab with the Connection line — Step 8. Connection reads Business connection @username once the event arrived.

If you get "No business connection detected", toggle one permission off and on, press Back, and verify again. If it still fails, unlink the bot in Chatbots and connect it again with the five permissions: this fixes it almost every time.

Details: Telegram setup

Step 9: Upload the media and describe every file

Open the Medias tab, click New folder and name it after the scene, open it and click Upload media. Accept the terms, pick the files, upload, and wait for the rows to reach DONE. Then write a description on every file with the pencil.

Result: every row shows a check mark in the Ready for AI column.

Medias tab of a Telegram creator with the folders, Import from bot and New folder — Step 9. Folders named after scripts make the step editor a two-click job.

Details: Media on Telegram

Step 10: Create at least two scripts

Open the Scripts tab, click Add Script, fill Name and Description, then build the steps. Free steps have Price (Stars) at 0 and go out as round bubbles when the video is 60 seconds or less. Paid steps carry their price in Stars, with Enable discount and a Discounted Price (Stars) where you want a fallback. Click Create Script, flip Active on its row, and repeat once.

Result: two active rows. The AI picks the script itself; the First star is optional and not needed here.

A step card in the Telegram script editor with the Stars price and the bubble switch — Step 10. Price 0 means free. Any other value is the number of Stars the fan pays.

Details: Scripts on Telegram

Step 11: Fill the persona

Open the Settings tab, sub-tab Details, and fill everything: first name, age, date of birth, gender, ethnicity, timezone, appearance, bra size, languages, hobbies and personality traits. Then the Add infos sub-tab: write her backstory, her limits and her selling rules in Additional info, capped at 6,000 characters on Telegram. Click Submit.

Result: the toast "Creator info updated!" appears.

Additional info box of a Telegram creator with the 6000 character counter — Step 11. The counter warns you before the text is truncated on save.

Step 12: Set the behaviour that matters on day one

Settings, Behavior: keep Response Delay at 1 minute, Follow-Up Delay at 8 minutes and Split long AI messages into multiple bubbles on. Keep Minimum Sexualization Cooldown at 2 days and Strict Script Cooldown at 10 hours. Settings, Strategies: Language Casual, Launch script Normal, Negotiation Default. Click Submit.

Result: the AI answers fast and defends its prices. If you later receive Rate Limit alerts, switch bubble splitting off on that creator.

The Behavior sub-tab with the Pace and Cooldowns cards — Step 12. The same form serves OnlyFans and Telegram creators.

Details: Behavior and timing

Step 13: Turn the AI on

Flip the AI switch on the card, or the Enable IA switch in the workspace header.

Result: the badge becomes "AI on" and the status becomes "Live". If a dialog opens instead, it names the missing piece: Insufficient Balance, Not Enough Scripts, No Active License or No Business Connection.

Telegram creator workspace header with the Enable IA switch and the Creator health card — Step 13. The switch sits in the header, next to the creator name.

Details: Turn the AI on

Step 14: Check the first reply

From a second Telegram account, write to the creator's profile. Wait about a minute, then open the Fans tab of the creator and click the row.

Result: the fan is listed with Last interaction, Scripts used and Total spent, and the conversation shows the answer. The page is read-only: a human reply is written from the creator's own Telegram app, after switching Enable AI off for that fan. Text only, because a paid Stars item can only be sent by the bot.

Fans tab of a Telegram creator with Last interaction and Total spent columns — Step 14. Fans appear once the business connection is active and someone has written.

Details: Fans on Telegram

Step 15: Turn the notifications on

On Account, Integrations, fill your Telegram username and use Connect Telegram Bot to link a group of your own. Then open the creator's Notifications tab and switch on AI Disabled, No Script Left and Rate Limit, plus Sales while you are testing.

Result: the group tells you when the AI stops answering, when a fan has seen every script, and when Telegram slows the bot down.

The rows of the Notification Toggles card on a Telegram creator — Step 15. Each toggle saves as you flip it.

Details: Telegram notifications

Step 16: What to watch in the first week

Every morning: the Dashboard with the Stars, Dropp and Total views, the Creators board (status Live and the connected @username, not "Not connected"), the balance and the license expiry. Once a week: the Scripts tab of the dashboard, and the fans whose Scripts used counter turned red.

Result: the alerts do most of the daily job and you open the app when something needs you.

Dashboard Overview for Telegram with the KPI cards and the revenue chart — Step 16. Telegram revenue splits into Stars and Dropp.

Details: Daily routine