Payments

Telegram has now supported payments for your mini-apps.

To accept payments;

• You send an invoice to the chat or user.

Refer to Sending Invoice

• For flexible invoices that accept shipping options,

Refer to ShippingQuery

• For finalization, you send a ok or notOk to precheckout event wether to accept or reject the invoice.

Refer to PreCheckout

• For succesful payments, handle the event.

Refer to SuccessfulPayment

Payment Provider

To start accepting payments, you'll need a payment provider.

Getting a Token

• Use the /mybots command in the chat with BotFather and choose the @merchantbot that will be offering goods or services.
• Go to Bot Settings > Payments.
• Choose a provider, and you will be redirected to the relevant bot.
• Enter the required details so that the payments provider is connected successfully, go back to the chat with Botfather.
• The message will now show available providers. Each will have a name, a token, and the date the provider was connected.
• You will use the token when working with the Bot API.

Set the token for the client;

Client.invoices.setToken(<provider_token>)

// OR

Client.intialize(<token>, <provider_token>)

Reference

The information was provided by the Telegram's bot API documentation; TelegramAPI#connecting-payments.