Telegram Bot

What Is the Telegram Bot?

@spentrip_bot turns a Telegram chat into an expense log. Send it a receipt photo, a PDF, a link to an online invoice, a voice message, or just type 18 EUR paella in Barcelona — the expense is created and filed into your trip.

It also works in group chats, which is the part worth knowing about: link a group to a trip and everyone in it can log expenses, whether or not they have a Spentrip account. For a trip where four people are splitting costs, that beats chasing receipts afterwards.

Link your account from Settings → Telegram in the app.

Spentrip Telegram settings screen showing the connection code and the four linking steps

Linking Your Account

Copy Your Code

Open Settings → Telegram in the app and tap to copy your unique code.

Open the Bot

Tap Open Telegram Bot, or search for @spentrip_bot yourself.

Send /login

Type /login in the chat. The bot asks for your code.

Paste It

Paste the code when prompted and the bot confirms the link.

No account yet? Send /signup instead and the bot will walk you through creating one.

What You Can Send

Five ways to log an expense, all in the same chat:

Plain Text

Type it however you'd say it, or prefix with /add. The AI pulls out the amount, currency, and merchant.

18 EUR paella in Barcelona

Receipt Photos

Snap the receipt and send it. The same OCR that powers in-app scanning reads it.

PNG and JPEG
Merchant, amount, and date extracted

PDF Receipts

Forward the PDF invoices that hotels and airlines email you straight into the chat.

PDF documents
Share directly from your mail app

Receipt Links

Paste a link to an online receipt or invoice and the bot fetches it. Handy for booking confirmations that live on a web page.

Telegram only — not available over WhatsApp

Voice Messages

Hold the mic and say it out loud. Useful when your hands are full of luggage.

Forty euros for the taxi from the airport

Group Chats

Link a group chat to a trip and everyone in it can log expenses — no Spentrip account required for members. Only the trip owner sets this up.

Add the Bot

Add @spentrip_bot to your group the same way you'd add a person.

Send /link

The trip owner sends /link and picks which trip the group feeds.

Everyone Logs

Any member can now add expenses with /add.

Log with a command — /add 30 EUR taxi, or send a photo or PDF with /add in the caption
Reply to the bot — replying to any of its messages with a receipt logs that receipt
Mention it — make the bot a group admin and you can skip the command: @spentrip_bot 30 EUR taxi
Change or remove the link — send /link again to pick a different trip or unlink the group
Subscription — group expense tracking needs an active subscription on the trip owner's account. Members need nothing

Account management stays in a direct message — /login, /unlink and friends won't run in a group.

Sending to the Right Trip

In a direct message, expenses go to your default trip unless you say otherwise. In a linked group, they go to the group's trip.

Set a default — send /trip to pick which trip new expenses land in
Override per expense — add #trip:Name to send just that one elsewhere, like 15 EUR pizza #trip:Rome2026
Tag as you go — any other hashtag becomes a tag: 4 EUR coffee #business. Tags require a subscription

Commands

/help — the full list, any time
/add or /log — log an expense
/stats — spending breakdown for the trip
/trip — choose your default trip
/link — connect a group chat to a trip (group chats only)
/signup and /login — create an account, or connect one you already have
/install — a link to download the app
/unlink — disconnect Telegram from your account
/stop and /resume — opt out of marketing messages, or back in

Managing the Connection

Settings → Telegram shows the current state. Once linked, you'll find an Open Telegram Bot button that jumps straight to the chat, and Unlink Telegram Account to disconnect. Unlinking asks for confirmation first, and you can relink later with a fresh code.

Tips & Details

You Can Start Before You Install

Message the bot without a Spentrip account and it will still log your expenses. When you're ready, send /signup and everything you've already sent comes with you.

Free Allowance

The Telegram channel includes 10 free receipts. That allowance is counted separately from the app and from the WhatsApp bot. After that, a subscription keeps them flowing.

Supported Files

PDF, PNG, and JPEG. Anything else gets politely declined — send a photo or a link instead.

Speaks Your Language

The bot replies in English, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, and Russian, following the language of your Telegram client.

One Telegram Account, One Spentrip Account

A Telegram account links to a single Spentrip account. To move it, unlink first, then send the new account's code.