YOUR GUIDE TO A SIMPLER MONEY HABIT

A few little steps.
A lot more clarity.

From your first message to your monthly overview. Here’s how to make ExpenseChatBot part of your everyday.

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01 / GETTING STARTED

Meet your new spending habit.

All you need is Telegram.
We’ll take it from there.

STEP 01

Say hello to the bot.

Open the bot in Telegram and send this command to register your account.

/start

Your account starts with a message.

STEP 02

Make it your time.

Send the command below, then open the link the bot sends to choose your timezone.

/settimezone

Keep your expenses on the right day.

STEP 03

Log something little.

Send an amount and what it was for. The bot records the expense and assigns a category.

Coffee 180

That’s it. You’re tracking.

02 / SENDING EXPENSES

Your words.
Your everyday spending.

Just tell the bot the amount and what you spent it on. Include a date when you need to log something from another day.

A little help, automatically.The bot assigns a category and subcategory. Leave out the date and it uses today.

A few messages to try

EXAMPLES

Keep it simple

Uber 400

Adds an Uber expense for today.

Amount first works too

500 for cab

Adds a cab expense for today.

Add a day

200 for lunch on 29

Uses day 29 of the current month and year.

Add a month

400 for drink on 29 April

Uses 29 April of the current year.

Or the full date

600 for electricity on 29 April 2026

Uses the exact date: 29 April 2026.

03 / MAKING CORRECTIONS

Wrong expense?
One reply sorts it.

Find the message where the bot confirmed the expense. Reply directly to that message with a delete instruction to remove the matching expense.

Use Telegram’s Reply action so the bot knows which expense to remove.

Reply to the expense confirmation

ExpenseChatBotCoffee · ₹180 · Food & drinks

remove this

Any of these replies will work:

remove thisdelete thisplease delete this

Example conversation

04 / THE BIGGER PICTURE

You’ve done the logging.
Now meet the insights.

Open your web dashboard to see where your money goes, review your history, and take your records with you.

Open your dashboard

See your spending clearlyCharts and category breakdowns.

Find the details that matterFilter expenses by dates and categories.

Keep a copy for laterExport your records to Excel.

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