BotSubscription Updates

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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