Your first sale: checklist

A first sale needs three things: paid content in the creator's Vault, a first-purchase script that offers it, and a price in Telegram Stars. This checklist walks through them in order, then shows where the sale appears once a fan pays.

Before you start #

The creator is live: Telegram account connected, licence assigned, AI Brain linked and Active, balance above $0. If not, go through the Go-live checklist first.

1. Put paid content in her Vault #

1. Open Vault (Chatting group, under Tools) with the creator selected.
2. Press Add media and upload at least two items: one to tease, one to sell.
3. Open each item and set its Pricing:
   • Teaser for the free media that makes him curious;
   • Paid for the media you sell. Paid items are sent blurred and unlock with Stars, from 1 to 25,000.

See Vault.

2. Write a first-purchase script #

1. Open Scripts (Studio group) and press New script.
2. Write the steps: an Opener with no price, a Taste with the Teaser item (+ Add from Vault), a First offer with the paid item, and a Nudge that brings the offer back.
3. On the paid step, set Unlock price to Vault price so the price from the Vault applies, or choose Paid to set one price in Stars for the step.
4. Back in the list, check that the Active switch is on and press the star in the First column: the starred script is the first script, the one a new fan receives first.

The full walk-through is in Build a first-purchase script, step by step.

3. Let the AI Brain start it #

Scripts are written in Scripts and attached in the AI Brain. Open AI Brain, tab Scripts, then Schedule & selection: turn on Enable this script and choose Available to start (Anytime, Daytime, Night or a custom schedule, in the creator's time zone).

4. Test the sale in the Playground #

1. Open Playground with the creator selected.
2. Write as a new fan. Check that the opener arrives first, that the Teaser comes free, and that the offer shows its price in Stars with Test offer.
3. Press Simulate purchase to see what she does after a payment, and Simulate decline to see how she handles a no.

No Stars are spent and nothing reaches Telegram.

5. Watch for the real one #

• Live Convs: a paid offer shows as a card with the price, Paid or Unpaid. The Sales bell at the top right lists the latest sales; click one to open the fan.
• Dashboard, Sales logs table: every sale with its date, source (Telegram for Stars), creator, content, fan, Net earnings and status. See Sales log.
• Agency settings, Telegram balance: the Stars on each creator's bot. Telegram holds Stars for 21 days before they can be withdrawn.

What it costs you #

LanaChat takes a share of the net sale from your balance when the fan pays. An offer sent by a script step (even a script Lana started), or by your team from Live Convs, counts at 4%, 3% or 2%. An offer Lana wrote and sent herself, outside any script, counts at 12%, 10% or 8%. See AI sale or manual sale?.