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The bot
VUST · @vustReceiptBot · 50% · 6-months window
A shoebox of receipts by December. Nobody sorts it before tax season.
Photograph a receipt, get back merchant, total and category pulled out automatically, and a monthly summary of everything logged so far. Under Telegram's affiliate program, 50% of attributed Stars payments lands on your balance in real time, for 6 months.
VUST is an independent developer of Telegram bots. Not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Telegram.
Rate and window are set on the bot's profile in Telegram, and that screen is where you join
Your post
For anyone who means to track expenses and stops after a week of spreadsheets: a photo per receipt, a monthly summary automatically. Costs Stars, works inside the chat.
telegram.me/vustReceiptBotCommission accrues, month by month
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Why this bot
01 · Why this bot, for this audience
The recommendation a budgeting or small-business channel can make honestly.
This bot fits audiences that already track spending and want the manual entry removed, not people being introduced to budgeting for the first time. Three rooms where that fit is real, not a general pitch.
What it does
Extracts merchant, date, total and category from a receipt photo, then builds a monthly summary by category.
Explicitly not accounting or tax advice — a starting point to verify, not a filed record.
Who pays for it
Freelancers, small-business owners and budget-conscious people tired of manual expense entry.
Anyone whose current system is a shoebox of paper or a spreadsheet they've stopped updating.
Why it converts here
It answers a question your audience already asks: 'is there a faster way to log this?'
You're not introducing a category. You're naming the tool for a chore they already do slowly by hand.
Fits
Personal-finance, budgeting and freelance-business channels with an audience that tracks spend.
Fits
Small-business and side-hustle channels needing a lightweight expense log without full accounting software.
Poor fit
Audiences with no interest in tracking spend or receipts at all.
Poor fit
Anywhere you would not spend an evening with it yourself. The post reads as a favour.
Fit beats rate. A 50% commission on a recommendation nobody taps is 0.
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How the money moves
02 · How the money moves
Real time, in Stars, straight from Telegram.
- When
The moment a referred person pays.
Not on a monthly cycle, not after a hold, not once a minimum is cleared.
- In what
Telegram Stars.
Credited to the balance of whoever joined — your channel or your personal account. You choose which at the moment you join.
- For how long
6 months from the moment they arrive.
Telegram keeps paying out the stated window even if the program is discontinued early.
- Who sets the terms
Telegram, on the bot's profile.
The exact rate and window are shown on that screen before you agree to anything. That screen is the source of truth, not this page.
VUST never mints a link, holds a balance, or approves a partner.
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03 · Who owns what
Three parties, no overlap.
Nobody owns a promise of income. There isn't one.
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04 · No form, no application
Nothing on this page to submit.
No application, no approval queue, no dashboard to be accepted into, and nobody at VUST deciding whether your channel is good enough.
What actually happens
- 01Photograph a receipt you actually haveSee what it extracts and judge the accuracy. Ten minutes is enough to know whether you would post about it.
- 02Open @vustReceiptBot in TelegramOn the bot's profile screen, find the affiliate program section.
- 03Join and get your linkTelegram shows the exact rate and window, then issues a personal referral link.
- 04Post it where the question gets askedThe budgeting-tools thread, the freelance-finance roundup, the monthly check-in prompt. Everything after that is Telegram's job.
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Stated and dated
05 · What we can state, dated
The facts behind the numbers above.
Program configuration · 2026-08-04
Terms on the bot's profile →- Bot
- @vustReceiptBot — a live Telegram affiliate program, set by the bot owner through Telegram, not from this website.
- Commission
- 50% of each Star payment made by a referred user, for the duration of the window.
- Attribution window
- 6 months. Telegram honours the stated window even if a program is discontinued early.
- Payout path
- Stars credited by Telegram to the joining account or channel at the moment of payment. VUST has no step in that path.
Facts about VUST's own program configuration on the stated date. No partner data, no earnings claims, no forecasts.
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Questions from DMs
Asked by channel owners, answered plainly.
The questions that actually arrive before someone joins, in the words they arrive in.
A channel you own can join, and so can your personal account. You choose which one earns at the moment you join, and the Stars land on that balance.
This bot's rate is genuine, but the calculator on the hub only models bots with observed Stars payment activity, and this one isn't there yet — so nothing here projects an earnings figure for it.
New payments from that person stop counting toward your commission. Payments inside the window were already paid out in real time, and Telegram honours the full window even if the program ends early.
No. One post starts the attribution for everyone who taps it. Posting again reaches people who missed the first one — it does not reset or extend anyone's window.
That's a product question for the bot itself, not for this program page — photograph your own receipt and judge the fit before you recommend it.
No. Telegram runs the link, the attribution and the payout. We set the rate on the bot and nothing else. Your balance is not visible to us.
Next step
Photograph a receipt you actually have first.
See what it extracts and judge the accuracy. If it's close enough to trust, the program terms and your link are both on the bot's profile in Telegram.
The terms you agree to are Telegram's, shown in full before you join.
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