How it works
Never heard of a Telegram bot? Not sure what a Star is? Good — this page assumes you know nothing at all. In a few minutes you will understand exactly how you sell videos, how your fans pay, and how the money reaches you. No technical knowledge needed anywhere in this.
First, what is a Telegram bot?
A bot is just an account inside Telegram that you can chat with — like a contact in your phone, except it answers instantly and never sleeps.
Your bot is your own private shop, living inside Telegram. You send it videos, and it holds them. When a fan opens it, they see your videos with a price on each one. They tap, they pay, the video unlocks for them. That is the whole thing.
What your bot does for you
Holds your videos
Send a video to your bot and it files it away, ready to sell. You can add as many as you like.
Shows them to your fans
Anyone who opens your bot sees your catalogue, with a preview picture and a price on each item.
Takes the payment
Your fan pays inside Telegram, in a couple of taps. No forms, no card details typed in, no checkout page.
Delivers instantly
The video unlocks the second they pay. You do not have to be online, awake, or anywhere near your phone.
What are Telegram Stars?
Stars are Telegram's own built-in currency — a bit like coins in a game, except they are real money and they convert back to real money.
Your fans buy Stars inside Telegram, through the app store on their phone or with a card. Then they spend those Stars on your videos. Each Star is worth roughly a penny, so prices are usually a friendly-sounding number: 25 Stars, 100 Stars, 500 Stars.
This is the part that makes selling on Telegram so much easier than selling anywhere else:
No new account. Your fan already has Telegram. There is nothing to sign up for.
No card form. Payment goes through the account they already pay their apps with.
No leaving the app. They never get bounced to a website — which is where most sales are lost.
Nothing sensitive touches you. Telegram handles the money. You never see or store anyone's payment details.
What buying looks like to your fan
From their side it is about five seconds of effort:
They see a post
In your channel, in a chat, or in your bot — a blurred preview, a short description, and a Buy button.
They tap Buy
Telegram asks them to confirm. If they don't have enough Stars, Telegram sells them Stars right there, in the same window.
The video unlocks
Immediately, in their chat. It stays theirs — they can come back and watch it again any time.
How you get your money
When someone buys, their Stars go into your bot's own Telegram balance. They are yours from that moment. You can see your balance and your sales any time by sending /stars to your bot.
To turn Stars into spendable money, Telegram uses its official partner, Fragment. You cash out there and the value comes back to you in your own currency. It is a short one-time setup, and after that it is a routine you repeat whenever you want to withdraw.
Telegram holds newly earned Stars for a short period before they can be withdrawn, and there is a small minimum balance before a cash-out is worth doing — both are Telegram's rules, and they apply to every creator on Telegram, not just here.
You do not need to understand crypto. People hear about Fragment and assume it will be complicated. It is a website you log into with your Telegram account and follow the prompts.
This short video walks through the whole cash-out, start to finish: watch the withdrawal walkthrough →
Your bot is yours, not ours
This is the part worth being clear about, because it is the question everybody asks.
The bot is created under your Telegram account, and it is controlled by a key called a token that you hold. NyxasBot uses that token to run your shop for you — listing your videos, handling sales, delivering content.
Your Stars are held by Telegram, not by us. Your earnings never pass through our hands, and we cannot withdraw them. Only you can.
Your videos stay on Telegram's servers. We do not keep copies of your content.
You can cut us off in seconds. Telegram lets you reset your token at any time, which instantly ends our access. You are never locked in.
Your buyers keep what they bought. Purchases live in their Telegram chat, so a sale stays delivered no matter what.
Will it just keep running?
Yes — that is the job you are handing over. Your bot runs on our servers around the clock, so it sells while you are asleep, busy, or on holiday. There is nothing for you to host, update, restart, or maintain, and nothing to install on your phone or computer.
You keep an eye on it from wherever you prefer: send commands to your bot inside Telegram, or log in to your web dashboard for fuller sales reports.
What it costs, and how we get paid
Creating your bot is free. There is no subscription, no setup fee, and no card on file.
We charge a 5% platform fee on the Stars you earn. Because your Stars sit in your own Telegram balance and we cannot touch them, we cannot simply deduct it — so instead:
You sell, and keep everything
Every Star from every sale lands in your balance.
We send you an invoice
Periodically, our management bot messages you an invoice covering the sales since the last one. It shows exactly which sales it covers and how the amount was worked out.
You pay it in Stars
One tap, out of the Stars you already earned. Nothing leaves your bank account, ever.
What can you sell?
Videos — exclusive content, behind-the-scenes material, or the full version of something you tease elsewhere. Anything that fits Telegram's terms of service is fair game, and Telegram gives creators considerably more room than most platforms.
You can also set a price of 0 Stars to give something away free. A free taster is one of the most reliable ways to turn a follower into a paying fan.
What you need to start
Genuinely, this is the whole list:
A Telegram account.
A few videos you want to sell.
About two minutes.
You open @NyxasBot in Telegram and it walks you through setup one message at a time. The only slightly unfamiliar step is getting your free token — Telegram has an official bot called @BotFather that hands them out, and our setup tells you exactly what to tap and what to paste back. If you get stuck, a real person is on the other end of our support chat.
The whole thing, in one breath
You create a bot in about two minutes. You send it videos and set prices. You share it with your audience. Your fans pay in Stars without leaving Telegram, and get their video instantly. Your Stars pile up in your own balance, and you cash them out through Fragment whenever you like. We take 5% and bill you for it afterwards.
That is it. Nothing else to learn before you begin.
Rather look before you leap? Open our live demo bot to see exactly what your fans would see.