Our scheduling system can send instant notifications about your online appointment statuses: edited and new, closed and deleted. It can be a personal message if you are set as an assignee or a message in an organization group chat.
You can easily sync Telegram and EasyWeek in 5 minutes. As said before, there are two notification types.
Personal notifications
In that case, the Telegram bot will send information about your appointments in private chat.
- Click the Apps icon, open the Integrations and Apps page, scroll down to the Telegram card, and select Connect.
- Choose a bot. By default, it is EasyWeekBot, which is sufficient for notification purposes. If you have your organization's bot with some custom functionality, connect it to the EasyWeek. More instructions about this are further.
- Press Connect Telegram, agree to open an application and click Start in the opened dialogue.
- The bot will congrats you on a connected account.
- Go back to the EasyWeek page and click Check connection.
All messages about bookings related to you will come to this chat:
Group notifications
You'll be able to collect all your organization members and other persons who are concerned in one group chat and add our bot there. It will send all organization notifications in this group.
- Click the Apps icon, open the Integrations and Apps page, scroll down to the Telegram Group card, and select Connect.
- Choose a bot. By default, it is EasyWeekBot, and it is enough for notifications. If you have your organization's bot, connect it to EasyWeek. More instructions about this are provided afterward.
- Find this bot in the Add members search and join your group:
- Copy the text from the form and send it to the selected group.
- The bot will congrats you on a connected account.
- Go back to the EasyWeek page and click Check connection.
Information about all your company's appointments and changes will come to this group:
Connecting your own bot
If you want to set a logo, change a bot's name, or already have a Telegram bot with some specific functionality, you can use it instead of the default EasyWeekBot.
Click the Apps icon, open the Integrations and Apps page, select Telegram Bot, and then Connect.
Create a new bot with @BotFather. Specify its displayed name and username.
You will get an API key to rule your bot as an answer. One of the purposes is sending messages, so EasyWeek needs it. Put this key in the settings field.
Message template settings
Bot reacts to these four case types:
- creation,
- changing,
- canceling,
- and closing the appointment.
Personal and group notifications adjust separately, so you have eight types of messages to set. You can enrich the standard message text with some variable details about booking.
The detailed specification is in this article.