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The best Telegram store builders

An honest shortlist of ways to sell to a Telegram audience, from a Mini App store that lives inside the chat to hosted checkouts you link out to.

Disclosure: BotLaunch is our product. Everything said about the other tools reflects their own public positioning, and we make no claims about their pricing or quality.

The right Telegram store builder depends on where you want checkout to happen. BotLaunch, which we build, opens a Mini App store inside the chat with payments to your own Stripe. Whop and Gumroad give you hosted checkout pages you share into Telegram, and Shopify runs a full store website you can link from your channel.

What we compared
  • Where the buyer checks out: inside Telegram, or on an external page
  • Whether you need code
  • Where the money settles
  • Whether the catalog and orders live in one dashboard

The shortlist

BotLaunch

our product

A no-code Mini App store that opens inside Telegram: catalog, cart, orders and optional card payments through your own Stripe.

Choose it when you want the whole shop, browsing, cart and checkout, to happen inside the chat, with the money settling to your own Stripe and no platform cut.

Whop

A marketplace and hosted checkout for digital products, memberships and communities.

Choose it when you sell digital access and want a hosted storefront and checkout that you link to from Telegram.

Gumroad

A simple checkout for digital products: you create a product page and share the link anywhere.

Choose it when you sell a handful of digital products and are happy sending buyers out of Telegram to a payment page.

Shopify

A full e-commerce platform that runs your own store website with a deep catalog and app ecosystem.

Choose it when you need a complete standalone web store, and treat Telegram as one traffic channel that links out to it.

Questions about selling on Telegram

Can a store really run inside Telegram?

Yes. A Telegram Mini App opens full-screen inside the chat, so buyers browse a catalog, fill a cart and place an order without leaving Telegram. That is how a BotLaunch storefront works.

Where does the money go?

With BotLaunch, card payments run through your own Stripe account via a Telegram provider token, and nothing is deducted on our side. For the other tools, checkout happens on their pages and their pricing applies, so check each one directly.

Do I need to code?

No. Each tool on this list is no-code. Custom Mini App development is also possible with Telegram’s own Web App platform, but that requires developers.