Five steps, and only two of them need anything from you that you do not already have. The panel shows the same list under Onboarding and ticks the steps off as you go.
1. Apply
Fill in the application. We check it by hand — you get an email either way.
2. Verification
An identity and age check. It runs in your browser and takes a few minutes. Without it we may not pay you at all, so it is worth doing on day one rather than on payout day.
3. Connect Telegram
Open Channels and connect your Telegram account. You confirm this in Telegram itself; we never ask for your Telegram password.
4. Create or connect a channel
Either connect a private channel you already run, or let us create the pair for you — a public one to advertise with, a private one behind the paywall. Add our bot as an admin so it can manage members.
If you connect an existing channel, nothing in it is deleted or rewritten. It simply gains a paywall.
5. Set a price
Open the channel and set the monthly price. A channel without a price cannot earn — the bot has nothing to sell. You can change the price later; existing subscribers keep the price they signed up at until they cancel.
Before the first payout
Two more things have to be in place: your IBAN and your Partner-ID. Both live under Payouts. You can add them at any time — they only block the transfer, not the earning.