Post Raffle to Telegram

The Telegram bot first needs to be set up in your channel or group (see Telegram Bot Setup) and it has to be successfully connected to your Alphabot team (see Telegram Channels and Groups).

When creating a raffle, you have the option to enable Connect Telegram Bot which will allow you to post an embedded message of the raffle to your connected Telegram channel or group. If the auto-announce raffle is enabled, the bot will automatically post the raffle into your selected channel/group - if not, you'll have to manually trigger it in the raffle settings.

There are two additional checkboxes, allowing you to automatically pin raffles (when posted) and un-pin raffles (when the end time is reached). In order for the auto (un)pin to work, the bot will need permission to do so - see Telegram Bot Setup for more.

Below is an example of what the embedded raffle message looks like on Telegram, with a button that allows users to enter the raffle without leaving Telegram, and a button to open up the raffle in a browser.