Setup guide.
From cold start to a first moderated group. Five real steps, no filler — with the screens you'll actually see.
Sign in through the Telegram bot
Authorisation happens entirely through Telegram. No passwords are stored — the bot generates a one-time login link, scoped to your Telegram identity.
- Open
@gramgroupsbotin Telegram. - Press Start, or send
/loginif you've used the bot before. - Tap the one-time link the bot replies with. It expires in 5 minutes.
- You land in the panel, signed in as your Telegram account.
New accounts receive $1.50 starter credit automatically. Enough for ~15 days of one active group or ~5 days of three.
Add the bot to a Telegram group
Bring the bot into the group you want to manage and promote it to admin. The exact permissions it needs:
- Delete messages — required. Without it the bot can't enforce any rule.
- Ban users — required for rate limits and mass-action bans.
Other admin permissions can stay off. The bot does not change member roles or edit group settings.
Run /connect in the group
Send /connect as a message in the group itself. The bot inspects its own permissions, then registers the group against your account.
The group now appears in your panel at Groups, with bot status, billing flag and last health check pre-filled.
Attach rule sets to the group
Open the group in the panel. Each rule type is a dropdown — pick a named list, template or limit you've already created (or jump to the rule type's tab and create one first).
- Stop words list — names of shared lists you maintain centrally.
- Required words list — optional, see Rules → Required words.
- Links list — allowlist or blocklist.
- Message limit — rate-limit profile.
- Greeting — welcome message template.
Save. The configuration takes effect immediately — the next message that matches a rule is handled per the rule.
Verify with a test message
Post one deliberately-violating message and one borderline message. The first should be deleted; the second should stay. If either behaves wrong, jump to Troubleshooting.
Replicate to the rest of your network
Once the first group is configured, every subsequent group is a 30-second job. Two options:
Option A — per group, manually
Run /connect in each group, attach the same lists from the dropdowns. Fine for 2–5 groups.
Option B — mass action
Connect the rest of the groups (no rules yet). Go to Mass actions → Attach. Select the rule sets you want, select the groups, commit. Every selected group now points to the same lists.
The cost is per active group per day — see Pricing. Connect 50 groups, attach rules to 20 of them, you're billed for 20.
Troubleshooting
"Bot is not admin"
You added the bot but didn't promote it. Open the group's admin list and toggle the bot to admin with the permissions listed in step 02.
"Delete messages: missing"
Bot is admin but the specific permission is off. Re-open the bot's admin settings and enable "Delete messages."
Rule attached but messages not deleted
Three common causes, in order:
- Bot lost admin since the last check. Hit Check bot on the group page.
- Word-boundary matching:
spamdoesn't match insidespamster. Switch to substring on that entry if needed. - Exception list contains the phrase. Open the list and look for it in exceptions.
Welcome message not firing
Telegram's join events fire only on first-time joins, not on re-joins. Test with a brand-new account.
Still stuck
Open a chat with @AllGramSupportBot and send /support, or email [email protected] — include the group ID and the symptom.