Managing Tickets using Telegram

Fluent Support can now be integrated with Telegram to send notifications to Groups, Channels, or an individual person’s inbox. You can also reply from your Telegram inbox. After setting up the integration it will send an instant notification upon new ticket submission or customer’s response.

Get Notifications In Telegram #

Simply follow these steps to get the Bot Token and Default Channel/Group Chat ID to get your Telegram Integration up & running.

• At first, send a text to @BotFather or click the start button to start the bot in your Telegram application.
• Then create a Bot by sending ‘/newbot' command using the help message.
• Provide a relevant name for your bot.
• Next, choose a username for your bot that must end with the text ‘bot’.
• After finishing these steps @BotFather will provide you the Bot Token that will need in the next step.

• From your dashboard, go to Global Settings & click the Notification Integrations option. This will open the Telegram integration tab. Then copy and paste the token into the Bot Token field. 

Now you will need a Channel or Group Chat ID to send your notification.

• First, you need to create a Channel or Group in Telegram. Click on the New Group button from the Edit option. You will be asked to add members to your group. You can just add the bot that you have created in the previous step. Enter a name for your group. Then hit the Create button.

• Now to get the Chat ID of your group just add the bot @GetIdsBot as a member in the group and this will send a message in the group with the Group Chat ID.

• Copy & Paste the Chat ID to the Default Channel/Group Chat ID input field in the Integration settings page.

Please note that, the Chat ID starts with a minus sign (-) and you would have to copy the code exactly provided by the GetIDs bot.

• Using the Notification Events option, choose for which instances you want to be notified through Telegram. The available notification events are: Ticket Created, Ticket Closed & Replied by Customer. Then make sure to Enable Telegram Notification. You can also Enable Reply From Telegram so that your support agents can directly reply from Telegram. As shown in the image given above.
• You can also insert a Test Message after you click Save Telegram Settings, if the settings are correct you will see a message in your Telegram and the settings will be saved.

• In this way, whenever a new ticket is submitted or replied by any customer. You will be notified about it directly from Telegram, as shown in the example given below.

• Telegram Notification when a new ticket was created –

Reply Tickets From Telegram #

To reply to tickets from Telegram you need to add your support agent Telegram Chat ID in their profile. To get the Telegram user chat ID send a message to @GetIdsBot, after sending a message to this bot it will return the message with the id, then copy the chat id and save it in your user Telegram Chat ID.

To reply to a ticket just reply to the ticket notification like a simple message reply. Here is an example –

Now you are all set to reply to tickets from telegram.