Telegram Unveils Business Features for Premium Users

Telegram Enhances Communication for Businesses with New Account Features

Enhanced Profiles for Professional Communication

• Opening Hours & Location: Businesses can now display their operational hours and physical location on a map directly within their profiles. This readily informs customers about availability and facilitates easy navigation to physical stores if applicable. Telegram's user interface prominently highlights this information, ensuring customers are well-informed.
• Custom Start Page: Gone are the generic profiles. Businesses can personalize their Telegram presence with a custom start page. This allows them to showcase their brand through a captivating tagline highlighting their products or services. Additionally, strategically placed stickers can further enhance the visual appeal and brand identity.

Automated Interactions for Improved Efficiency

• Greeting & Away Messages: Telegram introduces automated greeting messages, a valuable tool to welcome new customers. Businesses can craft personalized messages that introduce their brand and offerings. The feature even allows for setting the duration after which a new greeting message is sent, ensuring a consistent and professional experience for customers. Similarly, customizable away messages can be set to inform users when the business is closed or unavailable.
• Quick Replies: Addressing repetitive customer inquiries is now easier with quick replies. Businesses can establish pre-defined messages encompassing various customer queries, such as menus, payment information, or frequently asked questions (FAQs). These messages can be enriched with text formatting, hyperlinks, stickers, media, and files, offering a versatile and informative response to customer inquiries. This feature significantly improves response times and reduces the workload for business representatives.

Advanced Organization and Streamlined Workflows

• Colored Labels: Effective customer segmentation is crucial for businesses. Telegram's colored labels empower businesses to categorize chats with unique tags based on pre-defined parameters. This could include priority levels, customer status, or specific needs. So, this visual organization system fosters efficient management of customer interactions and ensures that inquiries receive the appropriate attention.
• Links to Chat: Imagine creating a virtual "call to action" button directly within Telegram. The Links to Chat feature allows businesses to craft links that, when clicked by a customer, automatically initiate a new chat window with a pre-populated message in the input bar. This opens up a multitude of possibilities, such as creating links for table reservations at a restaurant or order tracking for e-commerce businesses.

Integration with AI and Existing Tools

• Chatbots for Business: Businesses can leverage Telegram's powerful bot integration to seamlessly integrate their existing customer service tools and workflows. This enables the creation of AI-powered chatbots that can manage basic interactions and answer routine customer queries. Chatbots not only enhance customer experience by providing 24/7 support but also free up human representatives to handle more complex issues. Also, the Telegram Bot Manual provides comprehensive guidance for businesses seeking to develop or integrate chatbots.

Accessibility and Future Developments