A Telegram catalogue bot in Python: your goods with photos, prices and descriptions, and orders sent to you

Example result

async def booking_done(update: Update, context: ContextTypes.DEFAULT_TYPE) -> int:
    """The last step of the form: thanks the client and passes the request on."""
    request = context.user_data["booking"]
    request["phone"] = update.message.text.strip()
    await update.message.reply_text(TEXTS["booking_thanks"], reply_markup=main_menu())
    await context.bot.send_message(settings.admin_chat_id, format_request(request))
    sheet.append_row([datetime.now().isoformat(timespec="minutes"), *request.values()])
    return ConversationHandler.END

About this service

For a small shop or a maker, a catalogue right in Telegram can be enough to start selling. This bot shows your goods as cards: a photo, a name, a price and a short description, grouped into sections by buttons, with an Order button. From Standard the order form asks for the item, size or colour, quantity, delivery details and a phone, and sends it all to your chat and a Google Sheet; you confirm the order and arrange payment yourself. In Premium, admin commands and a broadcast tell everyone who started the bot about new arrivals. The photos, prices and texts come from you, and you need the right to use the photos. The bot does not track stock, sync with an online shop, keep a basket or take payments, though it can link to your own payment page. We write the Python code and a README on running it on your computer, server or a hosting. Hosting and the token are yours.

What is included

• What you getA ZIP archive with the Python code, a texts file with your cards, a folder for the photos, an example settings file and a README; the code is also shown on the order page.
• Cards with photosPhoto, name, price and description for each item
• Sections by buttonse.g. new in, bags, gifts
• Order from a cardThe form already knows which item was picked, from Standard
• Orders in a sheetEvery order is a row in a Google Sheet
• New arrivalsA broadcast to people who started the bot, in Premium

How it works

1. 1
   CatalogueYou give the items, prices, photos and the order questions
2. 2
   CodeWe write the bot and the guide to running it
3. 3
   LaunchYou create the bot, put in its token and run it
4. 4
   ChangesYou ask for changes within your package

What we need from you

Your items as text: name, price, a short description, sizes or colours, and the section of each; the photos, named after the items, in a ZIP or by a link to a folder, which you have the right to use; the questions of the order form and the chat where orders should go; your delivery terms and contacts. Never send the bot's token or any passwords: the README shows where you put them yourself.

We will ask you:

• Your goods
• Sections
• Order form
• Photos

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