Running a Telegram channel involves four recurring jobs: publishing posts, accepting posts from readers, keeping spam out of the chat, and checking the numbers. Telegram already does part of this natively, and bots cover some of the rest. Start by automating one job, and one question tells you which: do you write the posts yourself, or do other people send them to you?
If you write the posts yourself, scheduled sending is already built into Telegram, and so are statistics for channels of a certain size. If others send you posts (listings, vacancies, rentals), what remains is manual work: turning their messages into posts. Neither scheduling nor statistics removes it. Details come from the services' own sites and from Telegram's announcements and documentation, and were checked on 12 October 2026.
Publishing: scheduled sending is already in Telegram
Hold the send button in any chat, including a channel, and choose Schedule Message: the post goes out at the time you pick. Since May 2026 a scheduled message can also be delivered silently; how to do it is described in Telegram's announcement of 7 May.
If all you need is to schedule a post, you don't need a bot. You need one when the built-in tools aren't enough. Combot has a scheduler on its site: one-off and recurring posts, and one announcement across several chats at once; on the free plan, up to 30 scheduled messages per chat. According to its profile description, Controller Bot helps channel owners create rich posts and view stats. Terms and prices of services change, so check their sites and profiles.
Posts from readers: four ways and when each is enough
A reader wants to send you a listing, a vacancy or a news tip. There are four ways to take it.
- Private messages to you. Nothing to set up. You read each message, ask for what is missing (price, city, contact) and rewrite it as a post. This works as long as you can keep up by hand.
- Telegram's Suggested Posts. Since July 2025 a subscriber can send a post to the channel's Direct Messages. You can suggest edits, accept the post, and publish it right away or at a set time (Telegram's announcement). Turn it on for the channel first: Channel Settings, then Direct Messages (announcement). The post arrives as free text and media, with no required fields.
- A feedback bot such as Livegram. Everything readers write is forwarded to a chat you choose, and you reply as the bot. The features are free; the paid PRO plan only removes Livegram's ads and branding (livegram.io). As with Suggested Posts, the text arrives as it was written.
- A form in a bot. The bot asks the questions itself and won't take a submission until the reader has answered the required ones. All that is left for you is to approve or reject a finished submission. This is how Easy Post works; more on it below.
The first three ways differ from the fourth in one respect: what arrives is either free text or filled-in fields. If every post must have a price, a city and a contact, as in listings, vacancies and rentals, free text means asking follow-up questions. If the format doesn't matter, say readers send news or pictures, Suggested Posts are enough and you don't need a bot.
How it works in Easy Post
You pick one of 47 ready-made forms (classifieds, vacancies, rentals, cars and others) and rewrite the questions for your channel. You can ask for a price as a number, offer a choice from a list as buttons, collect a contact as a phone number and take photos as a separate step. A required field can't be skipped, except the photo step: a reader can finish it with the Done button even if nothing was sent.
A filled-in submission reaches the owner and the project members who have Telegram linked, as a card in Telegram. The card has the buttons Approve, Reject, Delete and Edit; Edit opens a page on the site where you can fix the submission before it is published. Whoever presses first decides. Photos don't appear on the card; you view them in the dashboard. The bot doesn't tell the reader why a submission was rejected. After Approve the post goes out to the channel using your template, immediately or on a schedule: you set how many posts go out per day and in which hours, and the bot publishes approved submissions in turn.
Publishing to a channel is optional: approved submissions can simply stay in your dashboard or be sent automatically by webhook, a request sent to a URL you choose, where another system can receive it (on a paid plan).
Limits. Easy Post is built for taking posts from others. You can also send your own posts from the dashboard, right away or at a chosen time (the Posts section), but if all you need is a scheduler, use Telegram's built-in sending or a bot from the first section. The form has no file field. A post with photos can't be longer than 1,024 characters (Telegram's limit for a photo caption): the bot asks the reader to start over with shorter text. Whoever sends a post has to open the bot and answer its questions step by step. If Telegram isn't linked, no cards arrive there and submissions wait in your dashboard on the site.
Spam in the chat and new members
Only admins can post in a channel, so spam shows up where readers write: in the comments group. Telegram itself has had welcome messages for groups and channels since August 2026: only new members see them, so you can give newcomers extra information, such as the chat rules, without cluttering the chat for everyone else (in the chat's profile: Edit, then Welcome Message; announcement of 25 August). They don't filter spam, though. For that, since June 2026 you can make AI bots admins of a group and have them process join requests; Telegram calls them AI Guardians (announcement of 11 June). You have to find and connect such a bot yourself.
If that isn't enough, there are moderation bots. According to its site, Combot offers captcha, spam filters, warnings and bans, plus CAS, a shared database of known spammers that is free for everyone.
Numbers: what Telegram shows and what services add
Telegram has built-in channel statistics for admins, but not for every channel: according to Telegram's developer documentation, it is available to admins of channels above a certain size, and the limit isn't stated. It shows the numbers of your own channels: subscribers, views, shares and reactions per post, the share of subscribers with notifications on, and growth graphs. You can look at other people's channels in services such as TGStat: its site is a channel directory with rankings and search across posts, and the bot @TGStat_Bot, according to its description, sends statistics for any channel, chat or post. Combot also collects analytics for groups and channels: its site lists 32 days of history free.
If Telegram's statistics are available for your channel, take your own numbers from there. If they aren't, or if you want to choose where to buy an ad or compare your channel with others, use the services above.
Where to start
- You write the posts yourself. Start with Telegram's scheduled sending and statistics. Add a bot when you know what exactly is missing: formatting or analytics of other channels.
- Readers send the posts. Start with intake. If the format doesn't matter, turn on Suggested Posts. If every post must have a price, a city and a contact, you need a form.
- Spam in the comments group. This job doesn't depend on whether you write the posts yourself or readers send them: connect an AI bot or a moderation bot. A welcome message can set out the rules for newcomers, but it doesn't filter spam.
To tell whether you need a form, count how many reader messages you rewrite into posts by hand in a week. If that takes noticeable time and every post needs a price, a city and a contact, start with a form in a bot. You can build such a form in Easy Post: you sign in with Google, and the details are on the page for channel admins.
