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title: Communities & Telegram
description: Create a paid community, price the access, connect your Telegram group, and keep members in sync as their access starts and ends.
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A community on Insy is a paid membership. People buy access, and Insy keeps a private Telegram group
gated behind it — letting paying members in and removing them the moment their access lapses. You
keep the group; Insy watches the door.

These guides run in the order you'll do them: build the community, set the price, connect the group,
then run it day to day.

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  <Card title="Create your paid community" href="/communities/create" icon="square-pen">
    Handle, name, description, category and images — plus saving a draft, editing, and deleting.
  </Card>
  <Card title="Pricing plans and how members pay" href="/communities/pricing" icon="credit-card">
    Set the price, choose monthly or lifetime, add several plans, and understand renewals.
  </Card>
  <Card title="Connect your Telegram group" href="/communities/telegram" icon="send">
    Create your own bot, add it as an admin, and let paying members join automatically.
  </Card>
  <Card title="Managing members and expiry" href="/communities/members" icon="user-cog">
    Roles, bans, the member cap, expiry reminders and removal, rejoining, and free access.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>

> **You need Stripe before any money moves**
>
> To receive money you must connect a Stripe account to the community and fill in your business and
> invoicing details (including your NIP and VAT rate where they apply). You can build the community
> and set prices first, but no payment goes through until Stripe is connected. See
> [Pricing plans and how members pay](/communities/pricing).