Telegram Mini App development

The problem it solves

Customers already come from your Telegram channel. Then every order and every quote is worked out by hand in private messages: what sizes are in stock, how much shipping is, which photo was that again. The more the channel grows, the more of the day disappears into chat.

A Mini App moves that conversation into an interface. The customer picks the items, fills in their details, and the manager receives a finished order with everything in it.

What you get

A Mini App is not just a screen. It is a small system with four parts, and all four are part of the job.

• The app itself

  The interface your customers open from the channel: catalog, product cards, cart, order form.

• A bot

  Opens the app, takes the orders and sends notifications to the people who need to act on them.

• Backend on a server

  Stores products, orders and customers, and keeps everything in sync.

• Admin panel

  Your manager edits the catalog, stock and prices and handles orders without asking a developer.

Running in production now

Three Mini Apps running in production. You can open each one in Telegram right now.

• Unzip Store @unzipStore_bot ↗

  A clothing and footwear catalog with over a hundred items, stock status, an articles section and requests for pieces bought to order. Orders reach the manager's admin panel already put together.

• Duck Store @DuckStoreebot ↗

  A product catalog with collections by category and product cards. A request goes straight to the manager, with no hunting through the channel feed.

• Terror China @Terror_ChinaBOT ↗

  Orders from Chinese marketplaces, with a built-in calculator for item price and shipping at the current exchange rate, a purchase request form and order tracking.

What the admin panel covers

The part customers never see, and the part your team uses every day.

• Products: add, edit and hide items, with photos, descriptions, sizes and categories.
• Stock and prices: change them in one place, and the app shows the new values at once.
• Orders: every order arrives complete, with the chosen items and the customer's contact details.
• Statuses: mark an order as accepted, paid, shipped or done, so nothing is tracked in someone's memory.

Not only shops

A Mini App is any interface that is easier to use than a conversation. Shops are the most common case, not the only one.

• Catalogs

  Show a range of products or services with filters, without turning the channel into an endless feed.

• Calculators

  Work out a price before the order: item cost, shipping, exchange rate, like the Terror China app does.

• Order tracking

  Let customers see where their order is instead of asking in private messages.

• Bookings and requests

  Collect structured requests for a service, with the fields you need, in one form.

When a Mini App makes sense

• Your customers already find you in Telegram and order through messages.
• Orders, sizes, prices or shipping are worked out by hand, one chat at a time.
• You want a shop, catalog or booking flow without building and promoting a separate website.
• Your manager needs to change products and prices without waiting for a developer.

Mini App or website?

A website has to be found, opened, and usually asks for a sign-up before anyone can order. A Mini App opens from the place where your audience already is, inside the chat, with the customer's Telegram account already there.

If most of your customers come from Telegram, a Mini App removes the steps where people drop off. If they come from search and ads, a website is still the right tool, and the two can share one backend.