This bot is a simple working implementation of the payments methods of Telegram's bot API, and allows users to send you money.

It uses Stripe as payment provider and requires minimal setup.

1. install the requirements with pip install -r requirements.txt
2. rename config.example.ini to config.ini, open it, and edit the following sections of the file:

• [telegram]:
  • token: bot token (get it from @botfather)
  • owner_id: your Telegram user id
  • owner_name: your name (will be included in some messages)
• [stripe] (please follow these instructions to get your Stripe tokens):
  • live: your LIVE Stripe token
  • test: your TEST Stripe token
• [general] (optional):
  • currency: currency to use (full list here), change it if not EUR
  • sourcecode: sourcecode link
• [sqlite] (optional):
  • filename: name of the sqlite database
• [log] (optional):
  • filename: name of the log file

3. start the bot from Telegram

Now the bot can be started: python3 main.py. To use Stripe's TEST token, run it with the -t flag: python3 main.py -t

All the strings used by the bot are placed under bot/strings.py, you can edit them from this file.

You can restart the bot directly from Telegram with /restart. Restarting it with /restart -t will force it to use Stripe's TEST token

Stripe will transfer received money in your bank account every few days, and charges a small commission