Accept USDT Payments in Your Telegram Bot (Complete Guide)

Build a Telegram Bot that accepts USDT — from /buy command to on-chain confirmation — in under 20 minutes. Telegram Bots are everywhere: VPN subscriptions, digital goods, SaaS tools, community memberships. But accepting payments? Stripe doesn't work inside Telegram. Traditional payment gateways add friction. Crypto payments solve this perfectly — and USDT (a dollar-pegged stablecoin) means your users don't need to worry about volatility. In this guide, we'll build a Telegram Bot that: Shows a product catalog with inline buttons Creates payment sessions via IronixPay Sends users a "Pay Now" link to a hosted checkout page Receives a webhook when payment confirms on-chain Sends a "✅ Payment confirmed!" message automatically Tech stack: Node.js + grammY (Telegram Bot framework) + Express (webhook server) 💡 Full source code: github.com/IronixPay/ironixpay-examples/telegram-bot 1. Setup mkdir my-tg-bot && cd my-tg-bot npm init -y npm install grammy express dotenv npm install -D typescript ts