How do I create a shop in Telegram without coding?

Open Tiny Shops in Telegram, authorize, pick a template, add products by pasting a list or connecting Google Sheets, and share the shop link. There is no hosting, no server and no code at any point. Most stores are live within a few minutes.

What is the difference between a Telegram shop bot and a Mini App store?

A shop bot answers with text and inline buttons, one product per message. A Mini App store is a real web storefront that opens inside Telegram: a product grid, filters, a cart and a checkout on one screen. Tiny Shops builds the Mini App and runs it on your bot.

Can I build a Telegram shop for free?

Yes. A Tiny Shops store is free until it reaches 100 contacts, with unlimited products and no transaction fees. After that, Starter is $9.99 a month, Pro $29 and Scale $79, priced by contacts rather than by sales.

Which payment methods work inside a Telegram shop?

Telegram Stars for digital goods; cards and wallets through Stripe, Razorpay or Midtrans (GoPay and QRIS); TON, USDT and other crypto; and everything Telegram supports natively in its checkout, including Apple Pay and Google Pay. You can also take bank transfers, invoices or cash on delivery with no provider connected. The money goes to your own accounts; Tiny Shops takes no cut.

Can I use my existing bot, or do I need a new one from BotFather?

Either. Tiny Shops runs the shop on any bot you own, so an existing bot with an audience keeps that audience. If you do not have one, creating a bot in BotFather takes about a minute and the setup walks you through it.

Do buyers have to install anything or create an account?

No. The shop opens inside the Telegram app they already use, and they are already signed in. There is nothing to download and no registration step.

How do I add products? Can I sync from Google Sheets?

Yes. Point the shop at a Google Sheet and keep editing there, or import a spreadsheet, paste a product list or forward photos and confirm what Tiny Shops reads out. You can also add and edit products one by one in the dashboard.

Telegram shop builderon your own bot.

Tiny Shops turns a bot you already own into a Mini App store. Buyers browse, add to cart and pay without leaving Telegram: no website to host, nothing to install, no code.

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Free until 100 contacts
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A Tiny Shops storefront open as a Mini App inside Telegram

Why a shop inside Telegram sells differently

A website has to pull people out of the conversation and hope they arrive. A Telegram shop opens where the buyer already is, so nobody is redirected anywhere.

Your buyers are already there

Telegram passed a billion monthly active users in 2025. A shop built there opens inside an app your customers already have running, not in a browser tab you have to talk them into.

Nothing to install

A Telegram Mini App opens on tap. No App Store review, no download, no new account: the buyer is already signed in.

Checkout stays in the chat

People browse, add to cart and pay in the same window. Telegram already holds their payment method, so the drop-off from an external checkout is not in the flow.

Your community is the channel

Pin the shop to a channel, put it in your bio, drop the link into Stories and DMs, and message past buyers directly instead of renting your audience back from an ad platform.

What a Telegram store builder has to get right

A shop bot that answers with a menu is not a store. These are the parts Tiny Shops ships so the Mini App on your bot behaves like one.

A Mini App storefront, not a shop bot menu

Your shop runs as a Mini App on your own bot: product grid, drop covers, collections, filters, a promo strip and your own theme. Two of the live demo stores are pictured.

Telegram Stars demo storefront with a product grid and a promo strip

Stripe-connected demo storefront with collections and a cart

The payment methods your buyers already use

Telegram Stars
Stripe
Apple Pay
Google Pay
Razorpay
Midtrans · GoPay · QRIS
TON
USDT and other crypto
Bank transfer
Cash on delivery

Pick which to surface. Or connect nothing at all and settle by bank transfer, invoice or cash on delivery.

A catalog you do not have to type in

Paste a note, drop a spreadsheet or forward product photos, and Tiny Shops reads out the titles, prices, options and sizes for you to confirm. Or keep the catalog in Google Sheets and let it sync.

Loyalty that runs itself

Cashback and referrals are part of the product, not paid add-ons. Buyers earn on an order and spend it on the next one, and a referral link rewards both sides.

Campaigns in the same thread

Pick a segment, compose a photo, a message and a button, and it lands in Telegram rather than a spam folder. Abandoned carts and favourited-item nudges send themselves.

One dashboard behind all of it

Orders, customers, campaigns and payouts in one place, with revenue, average order value and your top customers on the front page. Storefronts ship in English and Russian and follow the shopper’s Telegram language between the two.

The Tiny Shops dashboard: orders, revenue and customers for one store

How to create a Telegram shop in four steps

Everything happens inside Telegram and the dashboard. There is no server to run and no app to submit.

Create your account

Open Tiny Shops in Telegram and authorize in one tap. Nothing to install.

Choose a template

A Stripe-connected store, a Telegram Stars store for digital goods, or manual checkout for made-to-order and cash on delivery.

Add your products

Paste your list, drop a spreadsheet or forward photos and confirm what we read back. Or point the shop at a Google Sheet.

Launch and share

The shop runs as a Mini App on your own bot. Pin it to your channel, add it to your bio, drop the link wherever your buyers are.

What a Tiny Shops store costs

Pricing is keyed to the number of contacts in your shop, never to your sales. Products are unlimited on every plan, there are no transaction fees, and annual billing is about 20% cheaper per month.

Starter

Free

then $9.99/mo after 100 contacts

Includes 1,000 contacts
+$5 per extra 1,000
1 store

Pro

Scale

$79/mo

Includes 25,000 contacts
+$8 per extra 5,000
Up to 10 stores

See the full pricing table

How to judge any Telegram store builder

Tiny Shops is not the only Telegram shop builder. tgshop.io, TGmall, ShopsBuilder, BotLaunch and GramBase build Telegram stores too, and you should look at them properly. We only publish specifics about our own product; the questions below are the ones worth asking every builder, with our answers.

Does the shop open as a Mini App, or as a bot menu?: A Tiny Shop is a full storefront: grid, filters, cart and checkout inside one screen. A menu of inline buttons is not a store.
Does checkout stay inside Telegram?: Yes. Stars, Telegram’s native card checkout with Apple Pay and Google Pay, Stripe, Razorpay, Midtrans and crypto all complete without leaving the chat.
Do you keep your own bot and audience?: The shop runs on a bot you own. Your buyers are your bot’s users, and you can message them from the dashboard at any time.
Can you manage the catalog outside the app?: Keep it in Google Sheets and let it sync, or import a spreadsheet or a pasted list. You are never retyping products into a form.
Are loyalty tools included or sold separately?: Cashback, referrals, promo codes and broadcast campaigns are in every plan.
Does the price scale with your sales?: No. Plans are priced by contacts, products are unlimited and there is no per-order commission. Free until 100 contacts.

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Telegram shop builder FAQ

A Telegram shop builder is a tool that creates an online store you can open and buy from inside Telegram, without writing code. Tiny Shops does it as a Mini App on your own bot: buyers tap a button in the chat, a full storefront opens, and they pay right there.

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