{"id":92,"date":"2026-09-06T19:38:39","date_gmt":"2026-09-06T17:38:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/socialworld.bot\/?p=92"},"modified":"2026-09-06T19:38:39","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T17:38:39","slug":"connecting-a-telegram-channel","status":"publish","type":"gc_kb_article","link":"https:\/\/socialworld.bot\/pt\/help\/connecting-a-telegram-channel\/","title":{"rendered":"Connecting a Telegram channel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- gc_kb_sw_kanal_verbinden_v1 --><\/p>\n<p class=\"gc-kb-lede\"><strong>A channel is a private Telegram channel your subscribers get access to.<\/strong> You create it in Telegram and connect it here \u2014 or you let us create it for you, which is one button.<\/p>\n<h2>Option A \u2014 a channel you already have<\/h2>\n<ol>\n<li>In Telegram, add our bot to the channel and make it an <strong>administrator<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Come back to <span translate=\"no\">Channels<\/span>. The channel shows up by itself \u2014 you do not have to type anything in.<\/li>\n<li>Set a price and you are selling.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Your existing members stay members. Only new arrivals go through the paywall.<\/p>\n<h2>Option B \u2014 let us create it<\/h2>\n<p>Choose <span translate=\"no\">Also create my public and private channel<\/span> and we make both, add the bot, and hand them to you. You stay the owner.<\/p>\n<h2>Why the bot needs to be an admin<\/h2>\n<p>Adding and removing members is an admin action in Telegram. Without those rights the bot can take a payment but cannot let the person in \u2014 which is the one thing that must never happen.<\/p>\n<p>If the bot loses its rights, the panel warns you on the channel. Give them back and the warning disappears by itself.<\/p>\n<h2>Public and private<\/h2>\n<p>A <strong>public<\/strong> channel has no paywall: anyone can read it, and it is where you advertise. A <strong>private<\/strong> channel is the one people pay for. Most creators run both and post a teaser in the public one.<\/p>\n<h2>Removing a channel<\/h2>\n<p>Disconnecting a channel takes it out of your store and the bot leaves. <strong>It does not delete the channel<\/strong> \u2014 a bot cannot delete a Telegram channel. Only you can do that, in the Telegram app.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How to connect a channel you already run, or have us create one, and why the bot has to be an admin.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"gc_kb_audience":[23],"gc_kb_category":[58],"gc_kb_support_category":[],"class_list":["post-92","gc_kb_article","type-gc_kb_article","status-publish","hentry","gc_kb_audience-creator","gc_kb_category-channels"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/socialworld.bot\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gc_kb_article\/92","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/socialworld.bot\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gc_kb_article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/socialworld.bot\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/gc_kb_article"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/socialworld.bot\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gc_kb_article\/92\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/socialworld.bot\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"gc_kb_audience","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/socialworld.bot\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gc_kb_audience?post=92"},{"taxonomy":"gc_kb_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/socialworld.bot\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gc_kb_category?post=92"},{"taxonomy":"gc_kb_support_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/socialworld.bot\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gc_kb_support_category?post=92"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}