Telegram has introduced business accounts for Premium subscribers – Kommersant

Telegram users with a Premium subscription can now convert their account into a business account, according to a message on the messenger’s website. They will have access to such functions as opening hours, address, quick replies, automatic messages, setting up a message on a blank chat page, chatbot support and others.

Premium subscription costs 460 rubles. ($2.99) per month or 3.3 thousand rubles. ($35.99) per year. According to the messenger’s message, the benefits of Telegram for business are available to users with a “completely free” subscription only “for a limited period.”

“Starting with today’s update, business features can be used by anyone—no programming skills required,” it says. message on the messenger website.

In addition, the messenger announced “a new era in the history of Telegram bots.” Business users will be able to connect bots that will analyze received messages and respond to them on behalf of the account. This will allow you to transfer control of chats to an assistant based on artificial intelligence.

Telegram messenger also launched monetization for channel owners from 1 thousand subscribers. They will be able to receive 50% of advertising revenue in the TON-based Toncoin cryptocurrency, which is not available in Russia, Ukraine, Palestine and Israel.

About plans for innovations – in the material “Kommersant” “No payments on Telegram”.

Leonid Uvarchev