Putting a SaaS admin panel entirely inside a Telegram bot

Nick | SaaS Builder — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 12:30:35 +0000

Most Telegram monetization tools I’ve seen follow the same pattern. There is a bot for the users and a separate web dashboard for the owner.

When I started building Kiges Handig, I wanted to avoid the web panel completely.

The problem with managing paid groups is obvious. It usually involves checking payment screenshots, adding people by hand, and then forgetting to remove them when their subscription expires. It just doesn't scale.

But forcing a channel owner to open a browser, log in to a site, and navigate a web UI just to check their daily revenue or remove a user is unnecessary friction. If the content and the community are in Telegram, the management tools should be there too.

So I built the entire admin suite directly into the bot interface.

The system handles the core operations automatically. It accepts payments through providers like Stripe or YooKassa, grants instant access, and automatically kicks users out the second their subscription ends. I also implemented native restrictions for message forwarding and copying to protect the content from leaking.

The analytics part was the most interesting technical challenge. Fitting daily, weekly, and monthly sales stats into Telegram's inline keyboards took a lot of experimenting. But it actually turned out to be much faster than loading a heavy web page when you just want a quick look at your numbers. The bot also allows managing multiple projects from one account without leaving the chat.

Building a professional management tool using only inline buttons and text messages forces you to be very intentional with the UI. You don't have a big screen, so every click has to make sense.

I’m currently working on scaling the backend to handle higher concurrency for larger channels.

For the other bot developers out there, how do you feel about native in-app admin tools versus traditional web dashboards? Are you moving toward Telegram WebApps for complex UIs, or keeping it native with inline buttons?

Here is the project link if anyone wants to see how the UI looks in practice: https://handig.kiges.cc

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Putting a SaaS admin panel entirely inside a Telegram bot