Connect Telegram for daily reports

What you get

Once a day, your bot sends you a short message: how many connection requests, likes and messages have gone out that day, each next to your daily cap, and a link to your dashboard.

It doesn't report acceptances or replies. Reports go to workspaces on an active plan.

Reports go to Telegram only for now. Email reports aren't sending yet.

You use your own bot, so the messages come from a bot only you control.

Create a bot with BotFather

1. In Telegram, search for @BotFather and open the chat. Check it has the blue verified tick.
2. Send /newbot.
3. Give the bot a name, such as “My outreach reports”, then a username that ends in bot, such as myoutreach_reports_bot.
4. BotFather replies with a token that looks like 123456789:ABC-DEF…. Copy it. Keep it private: anyone with the token can control your bot.

Start a chat with your bot

Open your new bot (BotFather's reply links to it) and press Start, or send it any message. Telegram doesn't let a bot message you until you've done this.

Find your chat ID

The quickest way: message @userinfobot in Telegram. It replies with your ID, a number such as 123456789.

Or ask Telegram directly. After you've messaged your bot, open this address in a browser, with your token in place of <token>:

https://api.telegram.org/bot<token>/getUpdates

Look for "chat":{"id": and the number after it. That number is your chat ID. If the page shows an empty list, send your bot another message and reload.

To get reports in a group instead, add the bot to the group, send a message there, and use the same address. A group's ID starts with a minus sign; copy that too.

Paste both into Settings

1. In Connected Outreach, open Settings.
2. Paste the chat ID into Telegram chat ID and the token into Telegram bot token.
3. Check Send daily digest is ticked.
4. Click Save settings.

The token is encrypted before it's saved, and the field shows empty afterwards. Leave it empty later to keep the saved token.

Send a test message

Click Test Telegram. Within a few seconds your bot should send you this:

Connected Outreach: test message. Your Telegram is connected.

Save first. The test uses the settings you've saved, not what's typed in the boxes.

If the test fails, check that you pressed Start in the bot's chat, that the chat ID has no spaces, and that you copied the whole token. Then save and test again.