BotSubscription Updates

July 8, 2026

Custom Notification Messages
Project owners now have more control over the messages members receive during important membership events. This helps each project keep its onboarding, payment, renewal, and access messages closer to its own tone and community style.

Improved Welcome Messages
Welcome message handling has been improved across Telegram and Discord, including better formatting, safer previews, clearer editing behaviour, and stronger handling for longer messages.

Welcome Media Support Improvements
Welcome messages now handle media more reliably. Expect better support for text length limits, media links, and platform-specific message formatting.

Better Multi-Language Coverage
Messaging, welcome, broadcast, payment, and settings text has been expanded across supported languages. Non-English members and admins now get a more consistent experience.

Clearer Plan Buttons
Plan selection buttons now show the billing period more clearly, such as monthly, yearly, or lifetime access. This makes it easier for members to understand what they are choosing before subscribing on your subscription bot.

Improved Broadcast Delivery
Broadcast sending is now faster and handles delivery more reliably for larger Telegram broadcasts.

More Accurate Broadcast Summaries
Admins now receive a clearer broadcast summary after a broadcast is completed, including the actual delivery result instead of only an estimate.

Better Handling of Unreachable Members
Broadcast delivery now handles unreachable users more cleanly. That means future broadcasts stay more accurate and reliable over time.

New Broadcast Audience Groups
Broadcasts now support more audience group types, including non-members, churned, never purchased, trial users, and those who have launched the bot within the last 24 hours. This helps admins reach the right audience more easily with your telegram subscription bot.

More Reliable Renewal Handling
Renewal and retry flows have been improved across multiple providers, helping reduce unnecessary manual recovery steps.

Better Payment Amount Display
Payment and backoffice notifications now prefer the actual charged amount when displaying payment information, reducing confusion when discounts, currency conversion, or adjusted prices are involved.

Improved Paystack Renewal Support
Paystack renewals now support more reliable off-session retry handling, helping reduce cases where customers need to manually restart a renewal.

Improved Telegram Welcome Formatting
Telegram welcome messages now handle links, formatting, and translated content more consistently.

Improved Support Ticket Handling
Discord support ticket flows now handle close and re-engagement actions more reliably, including clearer behaviour when ticket intake cannot be completed.

Improved Discord Delivery Reliability
Discord private-thread and member-related notifications now better distinguish temporary lookup issues from permanent configuration problems, improving retry behaviour.

Better Discord Welcome Handling
Discord welcome messages now handle long text and media links more reliably, helping avoid clipped or incomplete welcome content.

Improved Webhook Behaviour
Webhook handling has been improved so payment completion events are sent only for genuine completed payments, reducing noise for integrations. See webhook endpoints.

Improved Account Linking Reliability
Account linking has been strengthened to better handle duplicate or conflicting social account links and provide more consistent outcomes.

Improved Installation Flow
Installation documentation and scripts have been expanded to make new deployments smoother.

More Consistent Access Handling
Membership activation, extension, cancellation, and access updates now handle more edge cases consistently across Telegram, Discord, and payment flows.

Cleaner Error Handling
Several user-facing and admin-facing flows now return clearer, more stable results when external providers, payment gateways, or platform services return unexpected responses.

General Stability Improvements
We made a broad set of reliability improvements across broadcasts, welcome messages, payments, renewals, webhooks, Discord, Telegram, account linking, support tickets, VAT tools, project setup, and admin workflows—making your telegram subscription bot and discord payment bot more dependable than ever.

July 1, 2026

Smarter Renewal Handling
Renewals now gracefully handle more edge cases around saved payment methods, manual renewals, provider retries, and delayed confirmations. That means fewer unnecessary retry messages and smoother membership continuity when a renewal is already done.

Better Saved Payment Method Selection
Inactive or unusable saved payment methods are now filtered out more consistently during renewals and checkout. The result: fewer failed attempts and a more reliable payment experience.

Multi-Currency Renewal Improvements
Renewals now handle plan currency changes more reliably, with clearer next-charge details when a subscription renews in a different supported currency.

Improved PayPal Renewal Recovery
PayPal off-session renewals now feature stronger retry handling, recovering more renewal payments automatically—no need for members to restart the flow by hand.

More Reliable Payment Confirmation
Payment callbacks and reconciliation now handle missing or malformed provider details more safely, reducing cases where an unclear response could lead to an incorrect payment status.

Improved Dispute & Refund Handling
Payment flows now handle disputed, refunded, and chargeback-related provider states more consistently across every supported provider.

Clearer Add-to-Group Feedback
Telegram and Discord setup flows now show clearer messages when a bot can't be added to a group, server, or channel—making setup failures easier for admins to understand and fix.

Invite Link Abuse Alerts
Admins can now be notified when someone tries to use an invite link without an active membership, helping you spot suspicious or unauthorized join attempts on your Telegram subscription bot.

Improved Telegram Stars Cancellations
Telegram Stars subscription cancellations now cover more legacy and edge-case scenarios, reducing the chance a cancellation fails to resolve correctly.

More Reliable Discord Role Claiming
Discord role claiming is now sturdier when memberships, plans, or member details need a recheck. Members get clearer guidance when a role can't be verified right away.

Better Discord Rejoin Handling
Members who leave and later rejoin your Discord server are now handled more reliably, with improved role restoration and member presence reconciliation.

Support Ticket Button Fixes
We fixed an issue where some Discord support-ticket buttons could incorrectly show "We couldn't find that ticket."

Checkout Link in Project Aliases
The project aliases API now returns the resolved checkout link, so dashboards and integrations can display the correct checkout URL without rebuilding it manually.

Stricter Webhook URL Validation
Integration and payment webhook endpoints must now use secure HTTPS URLs, helping you catch configuration mistakes before they cause missed events.

Cleaner Admin API Responses
Admin API responses no longer include empty user_name objects when no name is available, making payloads cleaner and easier to consume.

Clearer Account-Linking Errors
Federation and account-linking flows now return clearer status codes for expired, invalid, or conflicting link attempts—so your frontend won't mistake a normal link failure for a logout.

Clearer Plan Duration Validation
Creating a plan now gives clearer validation messages for duration formats, with friendly examples such as "1 hour" or "30 minutes."

Stricter Currency Validation
Plan and payment flows now validate supported currencies more strictly, preventing unsupported or retired currencies from slipping into new pricing or checkout.

More Accurate Project Setup State
Project setup state now updates more reliably after plan changes, so onboarding no longer shows stale plan information.

Improved Trial Access Handling
Trial memberships now handle cancellation and expiry more accurately, keeping access in sync with each member's real status.

Better Duplicate Purchase Protection
We added more duplicate-purchase guards for recurring plans, especially when a customer already holds an active membership.

General Stability Improvements
We hardened edge cases across renewals, payment methods, Telegram, Discord, webhooks, account linking, project setup, support tickets, and checkout flows—making your telegram subscription bot and discord payment bot more dependable than ever. Thank you for the continued feedback!

June 23, 2026

More Reliable Checkout Handling
Checkout is sturdier than ever across every provider. We've improved how payments are handled when they're delayed, retried, partially completed, or confirmed later by the provider—so members reach the finish line smoothly.

Smarter Subscription Renewals
Renewals now gracefully handle more edge cases around pending payments, failed payment methods, and retry attempts. This means fewer incorrect membership interruptions while a payment is still being processed.

Stronger Duplicate Payment Protection
We've added extra safeguards to reduce cases where members could accidentally start or complete overlapping payments for the same membership or invoice. No more double charges.

Smoother Saved Payment Methods
Saved payment method setup and off-session renewal payments now behave more consistently. When a payment method can't be used, members get clearer, friendlier handling.

Provider-Specific Reliability Improvements
We hardened payment handling for PayPal, Razorpay, Paystack, Binance Pay, NowPayments, Stripe, and Telegram Stars—including better checkout recovery, payment status handling, and confirmation flows.

More Consistent Payment Status Updates
Payment requests now handle completed, expired, failed, and retried states more consistently across providers and interfaces, giving you a clearer picture at every step.

Improved Balance Top-Up Flow
Balance top-ups now route through a more consistent web-dashboard flow, making them easier to complete—and easier to recover if interrupted partway through.

Smoother Telegram Join Flow
The Telegram join menu now refreshes more accurately when available chats change. Members also receive clearer feedback when there are no chats available to join.

Improved Telegram Payment Flow
Telegram Stars payments now use a more consistent payment-link flow, helping reduce confusion during checkout and payment confirmation on your subscription bot.

Better Telegram Bot & Chat Edge Cases
Telegram flows now handle more edge cases around unavailable chats, bot status changes, message delivery issues, and repeated webhook updates.

Clearer Group Setup Feedback
Admins now get better feedback when a bot has already been added to a Telegram group, making setup faster and less confusing.

Improved Discord Role Claiming
Discord role claiming now handles verification failures more clearly, giving members better feedback when their membership can't be matched or confirmed.

Better Discord Navigation
Some Discord settings and payment flows now include clearer navigation, with improved Back-button handling where it matters most.

Hardened Discord Reliability
The Discord integration has been strengthened across interaction handling, message updates, member lookups, role assignment, and member-count synchronization.

Richer Membership Details API
Developers can now retrieve richer membership details through the API, making it easier to build custom dashboards, support tools, and automations.

Customer Profile Update Events
Integrations can now react more reliably the moment customer profile information changes, keeping your connected tools perfectly in sync.

Clearer API Error Responses
Some API errors now include richer structured details, making it easier for integrations to understand and respond to validation or policy failures.

Live Updates Documentation Improvements
We've clarified live update channel naming and metadata documentation for developers building real-time integrations on top of BotSubscription.

Webhook Reliability Improvements
Webhook delivery now features better retry behavior and more consistent handling of delivery outcomes, so your integrations stay dependable.

More Reliable Member Access Updates
Membership activation, renewal, role assignment, and access updates are now more resilient when payments or provider confirmations arrive late.

General Stability Improvements
We fixed many edge cases across payments, renewals, Telegram, Discord, webhooks, API responses, and member access flows—making your telegram subscription bot and discord payment bot more dependable than ever.

May 24, 2026

Telegram Stars Payments
Offer your members a seamless, native way to pay directly within Telegram! You can now accept Telegram Stars for subscriptions, making checkouts instant and frictionless for your Telegram communities.

Coupon Codes in Checkout Flows
Grow your audience with promotional campaigns! Members can now enter coupon codes directly during the Discord and Telegram subscription checkout flow. The system fully supports flat-rate discounts, percentage discounts, and fully covered free-tier checkout, complete with clear, live validation messages if a code is invalid, expired, or unavailable.

One-Click Dashboard Access
Manage your project on the go! Project owners can now open the web dashboard directly from Discord or Telegram using a secure, short-lived Open Dashboard button. This lets you seamlessly jump from in-chat bot management to your full settings panel without manually logging in again.

Smoother Multi-Platform Account Linking
Enjoy a completely synchronized experience. If you or your members connect Discord, Telegram, and web dashboard accounts under a single identity, BotSubscription now ensures reliable project visibility and a smoother recovery path if accounts ever need to be linked or unlinked.

Tax & VAT-Compliant Invoices
Billing just became much cleaner. Invoices now feature detailed Value-Added Tax (VAT) breakdowns and custom tax notes where applicable. This provides ultimate billing transparency for your members and simplifies accounting for business owners.

Multi-Language & Global Localization
Go global! BotSubscription is no longer English-only. To help you better serve international communities, the platform now features comprehensive localization support across 25 different locales. In addition to English, you can now run your checkout experience and dashboard views in Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, Spanish, French, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Korean, Lithuanian, Dutch, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Simplified Chinese, and Traditional Chinese.

Redesigned Web Dashboard for Telegram
It's official—the new dashboard experience is now fully cross-platform! Following our April release of the Discord web dashboard, we have now launched the completely redesigned BotSubscription web dashboard for Telegram. Project owners can now manage both Telegram and Discord communities side-by-side using the same modern, high-performance interface.

Duplicate Charge Protection
We've made checkout flows more robust. The system now performs automatic, real-time status checks before generating new payment attempts. This prevents accidental duplicate charges when a previous payment is still pending or is delayed in being confirmed by the provider.

Improved Payment Reconciliation
Enjoy faster, more reliable member activation. We've enhanced payment reconciliation across major providers, including Telegram Stars, Stripe, NowPayments, PayPal, Razorpay, Paddle, and FastSpring. Even if webhooks are delayed, interrupted, or incomplete, BotSubscription automatically catches and applies successful payments in the background.

Safer Crypto Checkouts
Crypto checkouts via NowPayments are now sturdier than ever. The system features smarter currency and network detection, safer cache refreshes, clearer error messages for unavailable networks, and automated cleanup of expired Telegram QR payment messages.

Fail-Safe Subscription Renewals
We've overhauled how renewals handle account balances, expired subscriptions, failed charges, and payment retries. This minimizes the risk of missed subscription renewals or duplicate attempts, ensuring members retain smooth, uninterrupted access.

Clearer Free-Tier Usage Reports
Track your metrics with complete transparency. Usage reports and invoices now explicitly show when usage was fully covered by your free-tier allowance, making it easier for project owners and members to understand their billing summaries.

Micro-Invoice Write-Offs
No more paying cents! Final closing invoices now consistently respect the minimum billing threshold. Very small remaining amounts are now written off automatically instead of generating confusing, tiny micro-invoices.

Unified Billing Notifications
We've consolidated and fortified our billing alert system. Notifications for invoice issuance, settlement failures, overdue accounts, and reminders now travel through a highly consistent delivery path, with optimized support across Discord, Telegram, shared bots, and custom bots.

Self-Cleaning Telegram Payment Messages
No more confusing clutter in your chats! The bot now automatically deletes or updates expired Telegram payment messages and provides members with a clean, clear checkout retry path.

Quieter Telegram Group Interactions
Keep your group chats clean and focused. The bot now filters out general chatter in Telegram groups, ignoring regular user messages unless they are relevant service events or come from your designated support groups.

Polite Account Suspensions
If your project is suspended, the bot will avoid posting distracting, public group warning messages. Instead, it privately guides members where appropriate, while still rejecting new checkout pre-payment requests cleanly.

Modernized Telegram Login (OAuth)
We've rewritten our Telegram login and redirection flow to offer superior compatibility across mobile browsers, including iOS Safari. Linking accounts and logging into the dashboard is now faster and more secure.

Secure Project Ownership Transfers
Transitioning your business? Project ownership transfers now use a highly secure, one-time claim-code flow. We have also added support for administrative force-transfers if you need help recovering an account.

Next-Generation Migration Safeguards
We've added foundational infrastructure to help legacy first-generation BotSubscription projects safely upgrade to our advanced second-generation architecture. This features detailed import tracking, cutover safety hooks, webhook rollback behavior, and complete protection against double-billing during the migration.

Context-Aware AI Assistants
Your automated customer support bot is now much more capable! The AI assistant has deeper awareness of project state, knowledge base status, linked accounts, and overall conversation flow. We've also added stronger protection to reject misleading or unsafe member-provided queries.

General Stability Overhaul
We've squashed numerous edge-case bugs across payments, renewals, project recovery, Telegram/Discord messaging, billing alerts, translations, OAuth logins, migrations, and analytics reporting. A massive thank you to everyone in our community who provided feedback to help us build a better telegram subscription bot and discord payment bot!

April 2, 2026

New Web Dashboard for Discord
A major step forward for your Discord server! The completely redesigned BotSubscription web dashboard for Discord is now live. Project owners can now manage payments, plans, and members with a faster, cleaner, and more intuitive user interface built on our new multi-platform architecture.

Next-Generation Telegram Foundation
The power of our new multi-platform architecture is coming to Telegram! We have rolled out our next-generation foundation to Telegram, uniting both platform bots under the same powerful, modern codebase. While Telegram has always been a key part of BotSubscription, this backend upgrade ensures faster features, better reliability, and closer alignment with Discord settings.

Refreshed Legal & Free-Tier Terms
We've updated our legal documentation and terms of service to reflect our new multi-platform features. This includes clearer explanations regarding free-tier limits and billing practices. No action is required from existing project owners—your current setups will continue running exactly as they are without any disruption.

March 30, 2026

Improved Balance Top-Ups
The balance top-up flow has been streamlined with a clearer method selector and better QR code support for payment pages.

Stricter Payment Validation
We’ve added rigorous validation checks for payment requests to prevent the creation of invalid or excessive amounts.

Billing Profile Requirements
Improved billing-profile checks now ensure users are guided to complete all necessary billing details before a payment is generated.

Payment Method Deduplication
Saved payment-method handling has been optimized to prevent duplicate entries; the system no longer saves two identical payment methods twice.

Interface & Navigation
Improved pagination, back navigation, and the handling of empty or error states across the dashboard.

General Fixes & Stability
A number of bug fixes and minor code refinements have been applied. Thank you all for your feedback!

March 18, 2026

Invoice Reminders
Stay on top of your billing effortlessly! Admins now receive automated reminders for outstanding and upcoming invoices, ensuring your service stays active without a hitch.

Enhanced Billing Alerts
We’ve overhauled our reminder system with clearer formatting, better translations, and project-specific details. Plus, with smarter throttling and "Day 0" reminder suppression, you get only the most relevant notifications exactly when they matter.

Precision Billing & Reactivation
No more reactivation delays from minor currency conversion (FX) gaps! We’ve hardened our billing logic to handle high-concurrency states and FX variances with absolute precision, making project recoveries smoother than ever.

Frictionless Checkout Cycles
Experience a faster checkout! Payments now default to saving payment methods (with a simple opt-out) for effortless renewals. We’ve also polished provider-specific flows for Stripe, Paystack, Paddle, and Razorpay while squashing "already in progress" bugs.

Next-Gen Merchant UX
Installation is now more robust with improved rollback behavior and safer data cleanup. We’ve also enhanced the payment-method management interface and made billing actions much easier to find on suspended or locked projects.

Smarter Suspension Support
Billing recovery is now front-and-center when projects are suspended. New "Manage Billing" shortcuts and fixes for platform-specific (Discord/Telegram) message flows ensure you’re always just one click away from reactivating.

Rock-Solid Platform Sync
Improved shared-bot synchronization ensures your project stays in sync with server events during startup or guild changes. We've also refined our onboarding guidance to be cleaner and more focused for all new users.

Advanced Notification Delivery
We’ve added structured delivery strategies for DMs, admin channels, and private threads. Correctness and retry behavior for failed notifications have been significantly improved, ensuring no membership update goes unread.

March 10, 2026

Paddle Integration
Reach global audiences effortlessly! We've added support for Paddle to handle global payments, tax compliance, and recurring billing out-of-the-box.

Admin Billing Notifications
Project admins now receive clear, instant notifications the moment a BotSubscription invoice is issued. Stay on top of your project's billing with automated alerts delivered directly to your dashboard.

Enhanced Billing Precision
We've further refined our billing engine to provide absolute synchronization across all project states. This overhaul ensures even more robust handling of renewals and edge cases during project suspensions or reactivation gaps.

Smarter Notifications
Renewal reminder timing has been fine-tuned to be clearer and more accurate. Plus, notification language handling has been significantly enhanced for global communities.

Rock-Solid Platform Reliability
Dramatically improved logic for project suspensions and reactivations—especially in tricky scenarios like when the Discord bot leaves and rejoins a server. Background job lifecycles and membership reactivations are now more resilient to edge-case failures.

Advanced Merchant Accounts
Introduced support for complex merchant account configuration rules alongside smarter payment-provider capability handling during setups and renewals. Plus, our improved UX prevents frustrating duplicate "double-click" actions.

Targets Management
Added pagination support for targets, ensuring snappy performance for massive communities. Bulk updates strictly prevent empty submissions, plus enhanced UI accessibility.

Stricter Permissions & Protections
We've bolted down our security: transferring projects will now automatically invalidate past API keys. Plus, rigorous protections against destructive project mistakes, locked-down token behaviors, and tightened permission gating globally across admins.

February 24, 2026

Membership Expiration Reminders
Members now receive automated reminders before their subscription expires, giving them time to renew and reducing involuntary churn.

Automatic Usage-Report PDFs
Every bill to BotSubscription now includes an automatically generated usage-report PDF, making accounting and record-keeping effortless.

Production-First Onboarding
The default install environment for new merchant accounts is now production, so you can start accepting payments right away without switching environments manually.

Payment Polling & Reconciliation
Improved payment polling and reconciliation logic for more reliable subscription activations and fewer missed payments.

Auto-Settlement
Outstanding invoices are now settled automatically when a payment method is saved, reducing manual follow-ups and ensuring smoother billing cycles.

Permissions Simplification
Consolidated settings permissions into fewer, clearer options—without losing precision control over who can do what.

Cleaner Cancellation Notifications
Subscription cancellation notifications now render as a clean, formatted message instead of raw JSON.

API Robustness
Empty JSON bodies are now accepted safely, and error payloads have been standardized across all API handlers for more predictable integrations.

February 1, 2026

More Payment Options
Added support for Razorpay, Paystack, and Binance Pay. Expand your payment acceptance with these new providers.

More Reliable Payments
Introduced a fallback payment polling system to ensure subscriptions are activated even if webhooks are delayed or misconfigured.

Smarter PayPal Handling
The system now automatically detects if a PayPal merchant account lacks vaulting support. It gracefully falls back to non-vault flows and caches this capability to prevent future failures.

Automatic Project Suspension
Projects are now automatically suspended if the bot is removed from the server, ensuring your dashboard reflects the true status of your community.

Cleaner Setup
Reduced the number of default channels created during setup (such as #subscribe and #support) to minimize clutter in your server.

Enhanced AI & Support Flows
Improved AI-related UI flows and action-button handling. AI features are now more clearly gated and controlled, reducing confusing states for users.

Subscription Stability
Fixed edge cases regarding subscription classification (internal vs. provider-backed) and improved the reliability of subscription cancellations.

January 21, 2026

Accept Payments via Revolut
You can now connect Revolut as a payment provider. Members pay through Revolut's secure checkout, and you receive funds directly to your Revolut business account.

API Keys for Custom Integrations
Building your own tools or connecting third-party services? You can now create and manage API keys directly from your dashboard. Generate keys, view active keys, regenerate them if needed, and revoke access instantly.

Custom Posts
Create polished posts with clickable buttons that link to your subscription page, website, or any URL. Write your message, add buttons, and post directly to any channel—no coding required. Available for Custom Bots.

Automated AI Support
Turn your bot into a 24/7 support agent. Create a Knowledge Base with your FAQs and let the AI handle member questions, check statuses, and explain plans instantly.

Choose Where Welcome Messages Appear
Welcome messages can now be sent to a specific channel you choose, instead of defaulting to the system channel. Keep your onboarding organized and visible where it matters most.

Smoother Checkout Experience
We've redesigned the subscribe flow to make payments clearer. Members now see a better payment method selector, a summary of what they're subscribing to, and helpful prompts if they need assistance.

Smarter Welcome Message Delivery
When many members join at once, welcome messages are now queued intelligently to prevent spam and ensure every new member receives their greeting without delays or duplicates.

Automatic Plan Selection
When you create a new project with only one subscription plan, that plan is now selected automatically. One less step to get started.

More Reliable Support Tickets
Support ticket threads are now cleaned up automatically when resolved, and thread handling is more reliable overall—fewer stuck or orphaned tickets.

December 31, 2025

We are officially live! BotSubscription is now available to help you automate payments and manage memberships for your Discord community.

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