Groups and channels

1. Open the bot in a private chat, tap 📋 Menu, then 👥 Groups & channels. It lists the groups and channels you run with this bot and the plans you pay for.
   👥 Groups & channels

   Get posts in a group or channel: add the bot there, then put the chat on a group & channel plan here. A chat's admins manage its watchlist; the person who pays for a plan manages the plan.

   ➕ Add to a group➕ Add to a channel↩️ Menu
2. Tap ➕ Add to a group or ➕ Add to a channel and pick the chat. In a channel, Telegram asks you to let the bot post messages.
3. The bot then writes to you in the private chat (✅ The bot is in 👥 Alpha Calls.) with the next step: put the chat on one of your plans, swap it into one, buy a plan for it, or open it.
4. Add accounts. Open the chat from 👥 Groups & channels, tap ➕ Add account, and send the X handle. In a group, an admin can also send /menu there and use 👥 Group watchlist.

Groups and channels are paid only, in both bots: no free accounts and no free trial. A plan covers a number of chats of one bot, groups and channels alike, and has the same account limit as the plan of the same name in a private chat.

• Its chats share its accounts. The limit counts the different accounts its chats watch together, so an account watched in two of them counts once. On a Researcher plan with 100 accounts, a group and a channel that both watch the same 50 accounts use 50, not 100.
• It belongs to the person who pays. They renew it, upgrade it and decide which chats are on it.
• Your own plan stays yours. A chat's accounts count against its group & channel plan, never against the plan in your private chat.

Prices for each plan are on Plans. Paying for 6 or 12 months at once takes the usual discount.

• Any admin of a chat (its creator and its administrators) manages its watchlist: in the group's menu, from the private chat, or on the website.
• Any admin can buy a plan for a chat that has no running plan. Whoever pays becomes the plan's payer.
• Only the payer renews or upgrades the plan, puts chats on it, takes them off and swaps them.
• Everyone in the chat gets the alerts and can use the buttons under them.
• Members of a group can tap 🔖 Save for me under a post from the Posts bot. It saves the post to their own bookmarks on the website.

The payer manages a plan's chats in the private chat: open the chat from 👥 Groups & channels and tap 💳 Plan. The website shows the plan and its chats, and sends you to the bot for these changes.

• Put a chat on the plan. ✅ Put it on my Degen plan (1 free) while the plan has a free place. The bot refuses when the chat's accounts would take the plan over its account limit: remove some first.
• Take a chat off. 🚪 Take it off the plan. It stops getting alerts at once. If you're no longer its admin, it stays on the plan until the paid time ends.
• Swap. When the plan is full, 🔁 Swap it into my Degen plan replaces one of its chats with this one. The bot asks whether to copy the old chat's watchlist to the new one.

A plan's chats change once a day: taking one off and swapping each count as the day's change. Putting a chat on a free place doesn't.

In a group, an admin sends /menu. The menu shows the group's plan and opens the group's watchlist.

💳 Group plan shows the group's plan, with a button to your private chat with the bot, where plans are bought.

A channel has no menu of its own: manage it from the private chat or the website.

The Follows bot sends the chat the same follow alert you'd get in a private chat, with 👤 View Profile. On Degen, Researcher and Whale plans, alerts can also carry these lines.

• 🔥🔥 Breaking news! 2 of the accounts this group watches just started following this account in the last 24 hours!
• 👀 Heads up! This new account has 100 followers or fewer, so it might be worth checking out.

The Posts bot sends the chat the same posts, replies, quotes and profile changes, with 🔖 Save for me and 🔗 View post.

A chat gets nothing when it has no running plan, when it waits for a free place on its plan, or when its plan's chats together watch more accounts than the plan covers. The bot then sends the chat one notice and stays silent until that changes. The Follows bot's notice for a group without a plan looks like this.

To start the alerts again, an admin buys a plan for a chat that has none, the payer renews or upgrades the plan or makes a place, or admins remove accounts until the plan's chats fit. The list stays as it is in the meantime.

Admins can also manage a group or channel on the website, under Groups & channels. Each chat has a Watchlist, a Feed and its Plan: the tier, until when, who pays and the accounts its chats share. You can buy a plan there too.