Connect Telegram for alerts and Hey Erlin
Link your Telegram account to chat with Hey Erlin about your brand and get your Erlin alerts in Telegram.
Telegram is in beta. Linking Telegram lets you ask Hey Erlin about your brand in a Telegram chat and get your alerts there. It links your own Telegram account to your Erlin account, so each person who wants it links their own.
Open Integrations and click the Telegram card in the Messaging group. Each answer from Hey Erlin costs 2 credits, or none if you use your own OpenRouter key. See Hey Erlin.
1. Connect your account
Press Connect Telegram
In the Telegram sheet, click Connect Telegram. Erlin opens a chat with the Erlin bot. If it does not open, click Open Telegram under the button.
Start the chat
In Telegram, press Start. The chat opens with a link that links your Telegram account to Erlin.
Return to Erlin
Erlin waits up to 2 minutes for you to press Start. When it sees the link, the sheet shows "Telegram account linked".
If the 2 minutes pass first, the sheet says "Still waiting. Press Start in Telegram, then reopen this panel to finish connecting." Press Start in Telegram, then reopen the sheet.
2. Pick the brand it answers about
Once linked, the sheet shows Hey Erlin in Telegram. Use Answers about to choose which of your brands Hey Erlin answers about. Erlin confirms with "Hey Erlin now answers about" and the brand's domain. Change it any time.
3. Get alerts in Telegram
Your alerts arrive in the same Telegram chat. In Settings > Notifications, the Telegram switch sends the same alerts to your Telegram chat. It stays off and reads "Connect Telegram in Integrations first." until you link. See Notifications.
4. Approve runs from Telegram
When Hey Erlin proposes running your prompts, it sends an approve link. The link opens Erlin, where you approve or reject the run. See Approve a prompt run.
5. Unlink
Click Unlink my Telegram account in the sheet. Hey Erlin stops answering you in Telegram and your alerts stop arriving there. Erlin confirms with "Telegram account unlinked". Unlink it if it is the wrong account.
If Connect is blocked
If you are viewing another account, such as a customer account, Erlin refuses to connect with "Switch back to your own account to connect Telegram". Switch back to your own account, then connect.