Telegram chatting glossary: the LanaChat terms

This glossary defines the words used in LanaChat and in Telegram chatting for agencies, one or two sentences per term. Each term links to the guide that explains it in full.

Telegram and payments #

Telegram Stars #

Telegram Stars are Telegram's own in-app currency: fans buy them in Telegram and pay with them right in the chat. Telegram holds the Stars for 21 days before they can be withdrawn (fan payments).

Star value in dollars #

The Console shows dollars as an estimate at about $0.013 per Star. It is not the price a fan pays to buy Stars (reading your numbers).

Business connection #

The business connection is the link, made in the Telegram app, between a creator's Telegram account and a bot through Telegram's Business chatbot feature. It lets the bot read and answer the account's private chats, and only the account owner can turn it on (connect Telegram).

Bot #

A bot is created in Telegram with @BotFather and added to a creator's account through the business connection. LanaChat answers fans through that bot; a bot can be shared by several accounts of the same creator.

Payment link #

A payment link is a checkout page of your own, such as Fangate or Dropp Fans, that Lana sends to a fan at the right moment. The money goes to the creator or your agency, never to LanaChat (connect Fangate or Dropp).

PPV (pay-per-view) #

PPV is locked media a fan pays to open. In LanaChat it is a paid item of the Vault, with its price in Stars (Vault).

24-hour window #

Message+ only reaches fans who wrote in the last 24 hours: fans outside that window are skipped (Message+).

The Console #

Console #

The Console is the LanaChat web app where your agency sets up creators, watches conversations and reads its numbers (the Console at a glance).

Lana #

Lana is LanaChat's AI. She chats with fans on Telegram in each creator's voice and language, and sells the media of her Vault at the prices you set.

Creator #

A creator is a person whose Telegram accounts your agency runs in LanaChat. Her page holds her persona: name, age, language, bio and tone (creator settings).

Persona #

The persona says who the creator is: her life, her voice, her limits and examples of how she writes. The AI Brain then says how she chats and sells.

Telegram account #

A Telegram account is the account a creator sells from, connected to LanaChat with its bot. Every account Lana chats from needs a licence (Telegram accounts).

Pool #

A pool is a group of Telegram accounts of one creator that share the fans arriving from the same links. A new fan goes to an account of the pool that still has room (Telegram accounts).

Pool load #

Pool load shows how busy each account of a pool is against its hourly sending ceiling. From 80% of the ceiling an account gets no new fan while another account of the pool has room.

Vault #

The Vault holds everything a creator can send: photos, videos and voice messages, free or paid. She can only sell what is in her Vault (Vault).

Live Convs #

Live Convs shows every conversation as it happens. Your team can read any conversation and take it over at any moment, then hand it back to Lana (Live Convs).

Message+ #

Message+ sends one message, or a short sequence, to many fans of one creator at once (Message+).

Fans List #

Fans List shows everyone who wrote to your creators, with what they spent and where their conversation stands (fans).

Tracking link #

A tracking link is a link you put in an ad or a bio. It follows the fan from the click to the Telegram account he lands on and to what he buys, so you see the revenue per source (tracking links).

SFS (share for share) #

SFS is a promo swap: two creators post each other's story at the same time, so fans discover the other creator (Share for Share).

AI Brain and scripts #

AI Brain #

An AI Brain decides how the AI talks to fans: its phases, its tone, its scripts, its follow-ups. The persona says who she is; the brain says how she chats and sells (what is an AI Brain).

Script #

A script is a sequence of messages and media the AI sends to sell, step by step, with prices you set (scripts).

Follow-up #

A follow-up is a message Lana sends when a fan goes quiet, sent by rules you set on the Follow-ups tab of the AI Brain (follow-ups).

Opener #

An opener is the first message of a conversation. The Dashboard has an Openers tile for it.

KYC (know your customer) #

KYC is how the creator gets to know a fan before she sells to him. Objections are how she answers when he hesitates to buy (KYC and objections).

Lead agents #

Lead agents sort fans into fan lists for you: the Timewaster spots fans who negotiate without paying, the Qualifier spots fans who can clearly afford to buy (lead agents).

Playground #

The Playground lets you chat with a creator as if you were a fan. Her AI Brain answers for real, but nothing goes to Telegram (Playground).

Safety stop #

A safety stop is a conversation the AI stopped for safety reasons, for example a fan who appears to be under 18 or in distress (minor or distress).

Money and numbers #

Net sale #

A net sale is what the fan paid, minus Telegram's share of Stars, processor fees and refunds. It is the amount the Dashboard calls Net earnings.

Licence #

A licence lets one Telegram account run on LanaChat for 30 days. You buy licences from your balance and give them to accounts (buy licences).

Balance #

The balance is the prepaid amount, topped up in USDT or USDC, that pays for licences and for LanaChat's commission. When it reaches $0, Lana stops replying until you top up (low or empty balance).

Commission #

The commission is LanaChat's share of the net sales made through your accounts. The rate depends on who sent the paid offer, Lana or your team, and on your month's total (commission on sales, prices).

AI sale and manual sale #

An AI sale is a sale where Lana sent the paid offer; a manual sale is one your team sent from Live Convs (AI sale or manual sale).

Buyer rate #

The buyer rate is the share of active fans who bought at least once in the period. It is your conversion rate on the Dashboard (statistics).

ARPPU #

ARPPU (average revenue per paying user) is the revenue of the period divided by the number of fans who paid.

Lifetime value #

Lifetime value is what the fans who arrived in a period paid on average, counting the fans who bought nothing.

AI assistants and API #

MCP #

MCP (Model Context Protocol) is an open standard that lets an AI assistant such as Claude or Codex use the tools of an app on your behalf. LanaChat runs an MCP server at https://api.lanachat.ai/mcp (start here).

MCP token #

An MCP token is the key an assistant or your own code uses to reach your workspace, created in Users › API & MCP. It is shown once, works for 365 days, and its boxes decide what it may do (create your token).

REST API #

The REST API opens the same tools as the MCP server, with the same token, as plain JSON over HTTPS (REST API).

FAQ #

Is a Telegram Star worth $0.013? #

That is the estimate the Console uses to show dollars. What a creator receives depends on Telegram's withdrawal terms, and the price fans pay to buy Stars is different.

Do fans need Telegram Premium? #

No. Fans pay in Stars or through your payment links from a normal Telegram account, and Telegram Premium is not required for the creator's bot either (connect Telegram).

What is the difference between a persona and an AI Brain? #

The persona says who the creator is; the AI Brain says how she chats and sells. A brain you already set up can be reused for another creator, who keeps her own persona (create and link a brain).

Where are these terms in the Console? #

In the sidebar: Creators, Telegram Accounts, AI Brain and Scripts in Studio; Live Convs, Message+ and, under Tools, Fans List, Tracking links, SFS, Vault and Playground in Chatting; Billing and API & MCP in Users.