What the scan opens

Telegram, your chat, message in the box.

The QR redirects to t.me/yourhandle. Phones with Telegram installed open the URL inside the app — chat thread, channel page, or bot menu, with the message pre-filled if you set one. No app installed? The page falls back to mobile web with an install prompt.

Mountain Café

online

Hello! How can we help?

/start

Welcome 👋 What would you like to book — table or takeaway?

Message…

Telegram is where bots and channels still feel like superpowers.

For automated flows (bot menus, support, opt-in lists, broadcast channels), Telegram is the most flexible mainstream messenger. The QR routes users into the right surface — your bot's start command, your channel's join screen, your group invite.

Edit destination later — point at a different channel for a campaign, then back.

URL shapes

User, group, channel, bot — same QR, different t.me.

Usert.me/yourhandle

Channelt.me/yourchannel

Group invitet.me/joinchat/AAAAAExxxxx

Bot startt.me/yourbot?start=campaign_id

Bot deep-linkt.me/yourbot?start=user_xyz

Where this earns its print run

Anywhere you'd rather route to a bot than build a form.

Telegram bots replace what would otherwise be a custom web form, a CRM integration, an SMS list. The QR is the bridge between offline intent and the bot's start command.

Crypto / Web3

Project channels

Whitelist signup, holders' group invite, drop announcements. Telegram is the lingua franca; the QR puts visitors in the channel before they leave the booth.

Bots

Support bot deep-link

QR with a ?start=order_xxx param. The bot greets the user with context already loaded — no "what's your order number" round-trip.

Community

Discord-alternative group

For audiences that prefer Telegram. Print invite QR on merch + event banners.

News / channels

Publisher channel

News, weather, alert lists. QR on the newspaper, on the bus stop, in the lobby.

Hospitality

Booking bot

Café / restaurant booking bot. Patron scans, the bot handles availability + booking.

Education

Course channel

Print on the course poster, in the textbook. Students receive class updates + materials.

FAQ

Things people ask before printing the channel poster.

Does the recipient need Telegram installed?+

Phones with Telegram open the URL inside the app — chat / channel / bot ready. Without the app, mobile web shows the public profile and a download prompt. Telegram's install funnel is fast; most users install when scanning a relevant QR.

What's the deep-link ?start= param for?+

Bot deep-links let you pass a context value (order ID, campaign code, source) into the bot's /start handler. The bot picks it up server-side and can greet the user with relevant info. Useful for attribution + onboarding.

Can I change the destination later?+

Yes — edit in your dashboard. Useful when you rotate a Telegram channel name or migrate from one bot to another. Same printed QR.

How does this compare to a WhatsApp QR?+

WhatsApp wins on raw user count globally. Telegram wins on bot capability + channel broadcast (which WhatsApp restricts heavily). For automated flows, Telegram is the better fit. For simple "chat with a human", either works.

Will scans show in my Telegram analytics?+

Your dashboard logs every scan with date / country / device. Telegram tracks channel subscriber growth on their side. Pair the timing: scan spikes after a campaign tend to land in Telegram's subscriber graph within hours.

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