What are the steps to add a telegram bot to a group?

**pdog** · July 1, 2018, 3:36am

I made a bot and want to add it to a group I manage. Where are the instructions to do this? I tried but the bot doesn’t respond at all, even though it has a catch all flow. Are there some steps and settings I need to follow?

**DanielBeckett** · July 2, 2018, 9:38am

Hi Peter,

You can add a bot to your group just like any other Telegram member by searching the them using @the_bot’s_name or by using the share link from your bot setup.

For a bot to respond in a group a new message trigger needs to be used rather than a catch-all.

**pdog** · July 2, 2018, 10:03pm

Hi Daniel - I added the bot this way but it just won’t respond. I have a flow turned on with new message trigger and words like

menu
start
go
help

But it doesn’t respond. What else is missing?

**pdog** · July 2, 2018, 10:09pm

I found this post btw so posting this for others who might have similar issues. Telegram group chat support