How to set up a paid Telegram channel with Nemiling

How to set up a paid Telegram channel with Nemiling
Setting up a paid Telegram channel sounds simple at first: someone pays, gets access, and loses that access when the subscription expires. Nemiling will ask you to create a PayPal REST API application. Open PayPal's My Apps & Credentials page, create a new app, choose the Merchant app type, then copy the Client ID and send it back to @Nemilin_bot. Continue following the bot's prompts until it confirms that PayPal has been connected successfully.

In practice, there are a few moving parts involved. You need to connect the channel, create subscription plans, set up a Telegram bot, connect a payment provider, and make sure payment notifications work correctly. I decided to go through the whole process myself and document it step by step.

Step 1. Create a project
Open @Nemilin_bot and go to the projects section in the bottom menu.
Nemiling is a platform for automating monetization and access management for Telegram channels and groups.
The first message appeared in Russian, but the bot immediately asks you to choose your preferred language. After selecting English, the rest of the setup is displayed in English. The language selector is straightforward, so this shouldn't cause any problems. (1st Figure)
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Click “Create a new project” and choose the project type you want to set up (2nd Figure)
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The bot will then ask you to:
enter a name for the new project;
choose the resource you want to connect.
In this case, the resource is a Telegram channel. (3rd Figure) (3rd Figure)

You can think of the project as the foundation of the setup. Later, the Telegram channel, subscription plans, and other paid-access settings will all be connected to it.

Step 2. Connect the Telegram channel
Once the project is created, open the Telegram channel you want to monetize. Go to the channel's administrator settings and add @Nemilin_bot as an administrator.

If your channel has a linked discussion group, follow the additional instructions shown by the bot and make sure it has the required permissions there as well. (4th Figure) (4th Figure)
The permissions shown in the setup include the ability to manage subscribers, including adding and removing them.
This makes sense: if the system is going to grant access after payment and revoke it when a subscription expires, it needs permission to manage channel members.
Next, return to @Nemilin_bot and forward any message from the channel you just connected.
This lets Nemiling verify that it actually has access to the correct Telegram resource.
If everything is configured correctly, the bot will confirm the connection and offer to continue with subscription-plan setup. (5th Figure)
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Step 3. Configure a subscription plan
Now it's time to define what the subscriber is actually buying.
When creating a plan, you need to specify:
currency;
plan name;
subscription duration;
price;
resources that become available after purchase.

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For example, you can create a plan that provides access for one month.
You don't have to stop at a single option. If you want to offer different conditions, you can create several plans with different prices or subscription periods.
Once the plan is configured, click Save.
When all required plans are ready, click “Next Stage”. (7th&8th Figure) (7th Figure)(8th Figure)

Step 4. Create your own bot with BotFather
At this point, one question may come up:
We're already configuring everything through @Nemilin_bot. Why do we need another bot? (9th Figure)(9th Figure)
@Nemilin_bot is the interface used to configure the Nemiling platform itself.
Your project, however, gets its own Telegram bot.
Open the official @botfather and send:
/newbot

BotFather will ask you to:
choose a bot name;
choose a username.

The username must end with bot.
After the bot is created, BotFather will give you an API token that looks roughly like this:
123456789:ASDFABC-DEF1234gh
Copy the token and send it to @Nemilin_bot.
One important point from the original setup instructions: it's better to create a separate bot for Nemiling rather than reuse a bot that is already connected to another service.
And, of course, never publish your real API token in an article, repository, or screenshot.

Step 5. Connect a Payment Provider
The next step is accepting payments.
The setup I followed uses PayPal as the example payment provider.
In Nemiling, select PayPal and click the option to connect it. Nemiling will ask you to create a PayPal REST API application. Open PayPal's My Apps & Credentials page, create a new app, choose the Merchant app type, then copy the Client ID and send it back to @Nemilin_bot. Continue following the bot's prompts until it confirms that PayPal has been connected successfully.

For this integration, you'll need an eligible PayPal business account in a country where PayPal operates.

If you run into problems during setup, contact Nemiling support.
Continue following the prompts in @Nemilin_bot until the bot confirms that the payment provider has been connected successfully.
The project exists, subscription plans are configured, and Nemiling can automate the routine parts of paid access to the connected Telegram channel.

What Nemiling Automates
In this setup, Nemiling sits between payment processing and access management for the Telegram resource.
The subscriber chooses a plan and pays for it.
After that, the channel owner doesn't have to manually check every transfer or manage access for every new subscriber.
The platform automates the routine parts of paid access.
The money is not accumulated on an internal Nemiling balance waiting for a separate withdrawal. It goes through the connected payment provider to the creator's account.
Nemiling doesn't charge a percentage of each payment. Instead, it uses subscription plans based on the account's monthly turnover.
In this article, I deliberately focused on just one use case: running a paid Telegram channel with subscriptions.
Nemiling also supports other monetization scenarios, including paid messages, paid consultations, and donations, but those deserve separate walkthroughs.
The setup involves several services, but each individual step is straightforward. The important part is testing the entire flow — from choosing a plan to receiving access — before sending the bot to real subscribers.