Verified with the bank
PaidBot looks the transaction up with Telebirr, CBE or Dashen itself. An edited or invented receipt never gets past that.
Monthly dues for condominium and apartment groups. Members post their screenshot — PaidBot checks it with the bank and keeps every balance up to date.
Works with receipts from
Telebirr, CBE and Dashen are confirmed with the bank itself.
Your group collects into a CBE account
Whenever someone gets to it
In seconds
Four questions in a private chat: your monthly fee and the CBE account members pay into. Two minutes.
Same as today. The first time only, PaidBot asks who they are — once, in a private chat.
Reads the receipt, checks it with the bank, replies with what's paid and what's left.
PaidBot looks the transaction up with Telebirr, CBE or Dashen itself. An edited or invented receipt never gets past that.
Who still owes, how much, how many months back. Post it to the group or export it as a spreadsheet.
Fees run by Ethiopian month. Receipts are Gregorian — PaidBot matches them up, and never bills Pagume.
PaidBot never guesses and never ignores. Unclear receipts wait for you, screenshot attached.
Already used, wrong account, wrong month — caught before anything is recorded.
A payment clears the oldest month owed. Pay extra and PaidBot asks where it should go.
Anyone can open PaidBot and see their own balance and past payments.
Pick your group's language at setup. Every message follows it.
Add a charge to one member with a reason. It joins what they owe.
Every birr goes into your own CBE account — exactly as it does today.
The screenshot stays attached, so there's always something to point at.
PaidBot checks with Telegram every time, so adding the bot doesn't give anyone new powers.
And any group collecting the same amount every month — football teams included.
Monthly maintenance dues, collected in the building's own group.
Monthly team dues, on the same rhythm.
Questions
Free for early groups. If pricing arrives later, you'll hear about it well before anything changes for you.
No. Members pay into your own account exactly as they do today — PaidBot only reads the receipts and keeps the record.
Nothing to install; it all happens in the group you already have. The first time someone pays, PaidBot asks who they are in a private chat — once, then never again.
Receipts from CBE, Telebirr, Awash, Abyssinia, Birhan, Dashen, Hibret and Coop are recorded automatically. Anything else comes to you to approve.
A CBE account — members can pay from any of the banks above, but the account you collect into has to be CBE.
PaidBot checks the receipt against Telebirr's, CBE's or Dashen's own record. It won't record what it can't confirm unless you approve it, and the same receipt can never count twice.
It never guesses and never ignores it. The receipt comes to you with the screenshot attached — approve or reject with one tap.
By Ethiopian month. Receipts are Gregorian and PaidBot matches them up. Pagume is never billed.
Yes. Choose Amharic or English at setup, and every message follows it.
Never on its own. No reminders, no unexpected messages — it only replies when someone talks to it.
Only admins of your Telegram group. PaidBot checks with Telegram every time, so adding the bot doesn't give anyone new powers.
Tap Add PaidBot to your group, choose your group, and answer four questions. About two minutes.
A question, or a hand setting your group up?
Free for early groups. Ready in about two minutes, and your members don't have to do anything differently.
Add PaidBot to your group