The member's manual

How it works

You do everything in a private chat with the group's own Telegram bot. You pick a plan, the bot gives you a deposit address, and you send a stablecoin — USDC or USDT — from your own crypto wallet. Nothing is ever taken from your wallet automatically; you push every payment yourself.

Once the payment is seen on the blockchain, the bot sends you an invite link to the private group and approves your join request. Your access runs for the length of the plan you bought. When it ends, the bot removes you from the group unless you have renewed. You can renew, check how long is left, or fetch a fresh invite link at any time from the same chat.

Opening the bot

Open the link the operator gave you. It looks like t.me/their_bot_name. Telegram opens a private chat with a START button at the bottom. Press it, or send /start.

What you see next depends on where you already stand with this bot. There are five possibilities.

You are new here

You get a welcome message and the list of plans. If the operator has not written their own welcome, it reads:

Operators often replace that text with their own, and may add a picture and their own information buttons above the plans. The plan buttons underneath are always the same.

You already have access

The second line shows your expiry date and how much time is left. If your plan never expires it reads Lifetime access instead, and the Renew / Extend button is not shown, because there is nothing to renew.

You have a payment in progress

You followed a link to one specific plan

Operators can share a link that points at a single plan — the web address ends in ?start=plan_3. That skips the plan list:

If that plan has since been removed, you land on the normal plan list with this line added at the top:

There are no plans yet

If the operator has a hidden plan that a coupon can open, the sentence If you have a coupon code, you can unlock a plan below. is added and an Unlock Coupon button appears above Check Status.

Choosing a plan

Each plan is a single wide button. There is nothing to scroll inside them — the whole offer is in the label. Lifetime plans come first, then the longest plans down to the shortest.

Below the plans there is a Help button, and — when the operator has a hidden plan with a code still available — an Unlock Coupon button.

A plan priced at $0.00 is free. Any plan you actually pay for costs at least $0.20; that is the smallest amount the system will ever charge, even after a discount.

Coupon codes

One kind of code does two jobs. It can reveal a hidden plan, give you a discount, or both. You redeem it once and the effect sticks to your account on this bot.

1. Open the coupon prompt

   Press Unlock Coupon on the plan list, on the empty-plans screen, or inside /help. Sending /coupon does the same thing.

2. Type the code

   The bot asks:

   Enter your coupon code to unlock a plan:

   Cancel

   Send the code as an ordinary message. Capital letters do not matter. Codes are three to thirty-two characters using letters, numbers, dashes and underscores.

3. Read what you unlocked

   On success the bot confirms the plan and tells you what the code did.

A code that only reveals a hidden plan replies like this:

A code carrying a discount shows the old price struck through beside the new one:

If you already have access, the button reads Use coupon to renew / extend instead. If you had already redeemed this same code before, the first word becomes Already unlocked.

There is no promo-code box at checkout

You never type the code again. Once redeemed, the discount is applied by itself. You will see it twice on the way through: on the payment-method screen the price appears as $10.00 $7.00 (SUMMER), and on the payment screen it is broken out on its own lines:

A discount can never take the amount below $0.20.

When a code is refused

The bot stays on the prompt so you can try another code straight away.

The prompt gives up after five minutes of silence. Press Unlock Coupon again to reopen it.

Paying

Checkout is three taps and one transfer from your wallet.

1. Press the plan you want

   If the plan is free, or it is a trial and you are new, there is no payment at all — you are let in immediately:

   🎁 Your free 7-day access to Monthly is active. Check your DM for invite links.

   Status Get Invite Link

   Otherwise the bot may stop you here for a good reason. This plan is no longer available. means the operator withdrew it. You already have an active subscription (expires 2026-08-08 14:30 UTC). means use Renew / Extend instead. You've already used this one-time plan. and You've already used your free access to this plan. mean exactly what they say. If you already have a live payment open, the bot brings that payment screen back instead of making a new one.

2. Pick how to pay

   You choose a currency and a blockchain together. There is one button per option the operator accepts, labelled currency first, then network.

   Plan: Monthly — 30 days — $10.00

   Choose how you'd like to pay:

   USDC on Base USDT on Base USDC on BSC USDT on BSC « Back to plans Cancel

   Pick the one that matches the network your wallet is actually on. If the operator accepts only one option, this screen is skipped and you go straight to the payment screen. If you hold leftover balance on this bot in that currency, the button also shows it, like USDC on Base · $2.50 credit.

3. Send the exact amount

   The bot posts a QR code with the payment instructions as its caption. Everything you need to type into your wallet is in that caption.

   

   Send exactly 10.00 USDC to:
   0x8Fa2…dA61

   Network: Base
   Token contract: 0x8335…2913
   Plan: Monthly (30 days)

   Price: $10.00
   ⏳ This address is valid for 60 minutes (until 15:42 UTC).

   Tap the address to copy. QR contains only the raw address; enter amount/token manually.

   Payment is detected automatically after confirmations (usually 1-2 min).

   USDC on Base only. Do not send native coin, another token, or the same token on another network.
   Overpaying does not buy extra days; excess requires refund review.

   Check Status Cancel Payment

Reading the payment screen

The QR code

It holds the address and nothing else — no amount, no token. Scanning it fills in the recipient for you. You must still choose USDC or USDT yourself in your wallet and type the amount by hand. This is not a scan-and-pay code.

The address

Tap it and Telegram copies it. It was created for this one payment. Do not reuse an address from an earlier purchase, and do not hand it to anyone else.

The amount

Send exactly the figure shown. A tiny shortfall — a few cents lost to a wallet rounding — is accepted automatically, but a real shortfall leaves the payment incomplete until you top it up.

Network

The blockchain the bot is watching for this payment. Your wallet must be set to the same one.

Token contract

The identity of the exact token, shortened. Useful if your wallet lists several tokens with the same name and you want to be certain which one to pick.

The hourglass line

How long the address stays valid — 60 minutes by default, with the clock time it lapses. This is a snapshot taken when the message was sent, not a running countdown.

If your balance on this bot happens to cover the whole price, no address is created at all. You get a confirmation ending Check your DM for the invite link(s). and you are in.

Cancelling

Cancel Payment asks you to confirm first:

Confirming replies Payment cancelled. and offers Browse Plans. Sending /cancel in the chat does the same thing.

Waiting for confirmation

Send the transfer, then leave the chat alone. The bot checks every deposit address it is watching roughly every 30 seconds, on its own, on the server. You do not have to keep Telegram open.

Expect the whole thing to take one to two minutes from the moment your wallet says the transfer went out. Most of that is the blockchain producing enough confirmations; the bot then needs up to another half minute to notice, and a few more seconds to send the message. If you are past five minutes, press Check Status; if you are past ten, see Troubleshooting.

About ten minutes before the address lapses, if nothing has arrived, the bot nudges you:

When the full amount lands:

If you sent too little

The bot tells you what is missing and keeps the same address open:

If you sent too much

A small overpayment is kept as balance on the bot and spent automatically on your next renewal. A large overpayment stays at the address and needs a review before it can come back to you. Either way your subscription is activated for the agreed price — extra money does not buy extra days.

When the window closes you get one of two messages. With nothing received:

With something received but not enough, the bot names the shortfall and points you at Request Refund Review. An hour later, and again a day later, it offers you a one-tap restart:

Getting into the group

Membly does not add you to the group. It gives you a link that raises a join request, then approves that request because your subscription is active. That is why a link copied from a friend is useless — the approval is tied to the Telegram account that made the request.

Seconds after payment confirms, the bot sends the links:

1. Tap the link

   Telegram shows the group and a REQUEST TO JOIN button rather than joining you straight away.

2. Press it

   Your request goes to the bot, which checks your subscription.

3. You are in

   Approval is immediate. Telegram itself tells you that you have joined — the bot sends no extra message at this step.

If the link never arrived, or you lost it, you can fetch a new one any time. Send /getlink, or press Get Invite Link on /start or /status:

Three things can go wrong there, and each says so plainly. You don't have an active subscription. means the payment has not landed yet. No groups are configured for this bot yet. Please contact the operator. and Could not generate invite links right now. Please try again later or contact the operator. are both on the operator's side — message them.

The status panel

Send /status at any time. The panel shows only what applies to you.

The first line

A tick and the plan name when you are in. Other states use their own marks: ⚠️ Grace period, ⏳ Payment pending, ❌ Expired, ❌ Cancelled, ❌ Removed, and No subscription found. Browse plans to get started. when you have never bought anything.

The expiry line

Date and time in UTC, then how long is left in the two largest useful units. A plan with no end date reads Lifetime access. This never expires and there's nothing to renew. instead.

🕒 See in your time zone

Opens a web page that converts that UTC moment to your local clock. Only appears when there is a date to convert.

Renew Now

Replaces Renew / Extend once you are inside the last seven days.

The auto-renew block

Appears under the expiry line on plans that support it. See Renewing.

The other panels

Grace period — your paid time ran out but you have not been removed yet:

Payment pending — the bot re-sends your live QR code and address here. If the address has already lapsed you get text instead:

Expired:

Removed, after the bot took you out of the group:

There is also a Cancelled panel — Your subscription was cancelled. Ready to start again? — with Subscribe Again.

Renewing

Renewing before your time is up adds to your current period; you never lose the days you have already paid for. The payment screen for a renewal says so at the top:

Renewing by hand

Send /renew, or press Renew / Extend, Renew Now or Renew wherever you see it. The bot reminds you where you stand and lists the plans:

You are not tied to the plan you bought before — pick any of them. From here it is the same currency picker and payment screen as a first purchase. Some answers you may get instead: You don't have a subscription., You have lifetime access — there's nothing to renew., or, for a plan the operator marked as one-off, "Trial Week" is a one-time plan and can't be renewed or extended.

Auto-renew

Auto-renew is not a card on file and it never pulls money. It reserves your deposit address so you can renew with a single transfer, no checkout. Turn it on from /status:

Send the plan price to that address whenever you like and your term extends by itself. The receipt arrives shortly after:

Switched off, the block reads 🔁 Auto-renew is off for Monthly. Your access continues to the end of the current period, then stops. The option is offered only on repeating, dated, paid plans, and only after your first on-chain payment has produced an address worth reusing — before that, tapping it answers Auto-renew becomes available after your first on-chain payment, once there's an address to reuse.

Account credit

Money the bot holds for you — usually a small overpayment — is spent automatically the next time you renew, so you pay less. You see it on the currency buttons as USDC on Base · $2.50 credit, and again on the payment screen as an Account credit: -$2.50 line above the amount due. When it covers the whole price there is no address and no transfer at all.

The reminders

You do not have to remember anything. The bot writes to you as your date approaches, and once more if you drift away.

Lifetime plans get no reminders, because there is nothing to remind you about.

When access ends

Nothing happens the second your date passes. Operators can set a grace period, and while it lasts you keep the group and /status shows ⚠️ Grace period with the time remaining. Renew before it runs out and you are never removed.

Once the grace period is gone too, the bot removes you from every linked group and writes to you:

If you renewed while the removal was being processed, you are skipped, not removed. Your history stays on file: /history lists every subscription you have had on this bot with its dates, what you paid and on which network, and gives you a 🧾 Receipt: Monthly · 2026-07-09 button for each payment. A receipt names the plan, amount, network, transaction and date, and is issued by the bot — verify the transaction yourself on a block explorer if you want to.

Refunds

Refunds are never automatic and are never sent back to the address you paid from — that address often belongs to an exchange, where a return would be lost. Every refund is a request that a person reviews.

1. Open a request

   Send /refund, or press Request Refund Review on /help or on the expired, cancelled, removed or payment-cancelled status panels.

2. Pick the payment

   If more than one payment qualifies, the bot lists them as Payment #418 - 10.00 USDC on Base and you choose. If nothing qualifies you get No refundable funds were found for your account. If you believe this is wrong, contact the operator with your payment transaction.

3. Give a wallet address

   The bot asks for the address the refund should go to, on the network the funds are actually sitting on, and warns: Use a wallet you control. Do not use an exchange deposit address unless you are sure the exchange can credit refunds. Send the address as a message. A malformed address is refused with the reason and the correct format for that network.

4. Wait for the operator

   Refund review request sent to the operator for manual review.

   Payment: #418
   Amount to review: 10.00 USDC
   Refund address: 0x8Fa2…dA61

   No funds were sent automatically.

   Check Status Browse Plans

You can correct the address by running /refund again, but only up to a point. Once the operator has approved it, you get This refund is already locked in — the operator has approved it or it is being sent right now, so the destination can no longer be changed. — from then on, message the operator directly.

Commands

Five of these appear in Telegram's own menu when you press the / button. The rest work exactly the same, they are just documented in /help rather than the menu.

The bot also remembers the language you signed up in. If you first subscribed with Telegram set to Spanish, the bot keeps writing to you in Spanish even after you switch your app back to English.

Troubleshooting