Welcome messages

The User Greetings section of the mini app controls what members see when they join.

Welcome message

Switch on Enable welcome message and write the text. It is sent in the group once for every new member, whether they joined by link, were added by someone or had a join request approved (by ChatZilla, by an admin in Telegram or by another bot). In a group it is a private message: only the new member sees it, the rest of the chat sees nothing.

• {$username} in the text is replaced with the new member's name.
• Buttons with links are added with the buttons row under the text editor; written by hand, a button is {{button|Button label|https://example.com}}.
• Send test message sends the current text to your private chat with the bot, so you can check it before members see it.

The default text is "Welcome {$username}! Please check the rules!". Like the bot's other notices in a group, the welcome is private and Telegram removes it by itself, so the display time from Bot Message Settings does not apply to it. See Bot messages.

Delete system messages

Telegram posts "... joined the group" and "... left the group" service messages. Two switches remove them as soon as they appear:

• "... joined the group" message
• "... left the group" message

Both are useful in large groups where these notices push real messages out of sight.