The Channels section is where you manage your Telegram channels: connecting, publishing settings, post templates and history. A channel can be connected in two ways — through a bot or through a personal account.
Connecting through a bot
Pick a bot from the list of registered ones (tokens are created in @BotFather and verified automatically), enter the channel’s @name — and that is it. The bot must be an administrator of the channel with the right to publish posts: if a permission is missing, the application tells you exactly which permission is missing in which channel before saving anything. The channel’s data — title, description, photo, subscriber count — is pulled from Telegram automatically.
Connecting through a personal account
Pick a connected personal account — the application shows the list of channels where you are the owner or an administrator, with a label and the subscriber count. Several can be connected at once by checking them in the list. Each channel is connected once: trying to connect it a second way asks you to disconnect the old connection first; reconnecting the same way simply refreshes the channel’s data.
The channel page
Every channel has its own page: photo, title, @name and a button that refreshes the data from Telegram. The tabs are Overview, Timeline, Analytics, Schedule, Queue, Content and Settings; the full-screen post editor opens for writing and editing. While the page is open it refreshes itself: new posts and numbers appear without a reload.
Channel settings
- Time zone — an IANA list; the schedule slot times and the estimated publishing dates are computed in it;
- Auto-publishing — on/off: when on, the first post from the slot’s queue is published by itself the moment the slot arrives;
- Silent by default — publish without the notification sound for subscribers;
- Auto-pin — pin the last published post, optionally with a pin lifetime.
Settings save immediately as you change them — there is no Save button to look for.
Post templates
For a consistent publishing style, a channel can have templates: a prefix, a suffix and hashtags. Templates are created, edited and deleted on the Settings tab.
Channel content
The Content tab is the channel’s post history: a filter by status and date, sorting by date or views, statistics (total posts, average views, posts per week). Separately there is the channel history import — up to 500 posts: it is available only for channels connected through a personal account, and it loads past publications with their views. A single post can be refreshed on its own — the application re-reads its text and the fresh view count from Telegram.
Disconnecting and deleting
Disconnecting frees the connection to Telegram, but the historical data stays in place. Deleting removes the channel together with all the collected data — settings, slots, templates, imported posts — and is irreversible, so the application asks for a confirmation.
What is next
How to write and publish posts is in the Publishing section, how to set the schedule in Scheduling, how the content path works in the Content Queue, and how to read the channel’s numbers in Analytics.