What is MemberPass?
A plain-English overview of the MemberPass platform — who builds it, who uses it, what it does, and why it exists.
MemberPass is a membership-management platform for creators, businesses, and communities — built by Envigo Innovations, LLC. It lets you monetize private Telegram channels, groups, and supergroups (with Slack, Discord, and Viber on the roadmap) through subscription plans, access codes, and multi-gateway payments — no code required.
What MemberPass does (in one paragraph)
You run a community or produce content that's worth paying for. MemberPass gives you a bot + web portal that sits in front of your private Telegram destinations, handles subscribe / renew / cancel flows, accepts payments through nine providers, automatically invites paying members, removes expired ones, and reports everything back to you through a single dashboard. Your subscribers stay on Telegram where they're comfortable; you stay in control of your business.
Who it's for
Individual creators
Coaches, educators, podcasters, analysts, mentors — anyone who's built an audience and wants to charge for premium access.
Communities
Private clubs, niche subreddits, investing groups, support networks — any organisation that needs gated access with subscription billing.
Businesses
Small teams selling training materials, content libraries, ongoing services. Also agencies managing multiple creators at once (via Teams).
Anyone with a private channel
If you already have a private Telegram channel or group and want it to generate recurring revenue, MemberPass is the fastest path from "private" to "paid private".
Who it's not for
- If you don't want a subscription model. If you're selling one-off digital products or physical goods, MemberPass is overkill — use a Gumroad / Shopify / equivalent instead.
- If your content lives on a platform MemberPass doesn't support yet. Today that's everything except Telegram. See Platform roadmap.
- If you don't want to accept any payment at all. Telegram + MemberPass requires a payment method on file even for Free-plan creators (because transaction fees apply). If you want purely free-access-only communities, Telegram's built-in private-group features are simpler.
The three concepts you'll use every day
- Project — the container for one specific membership business. It has plans, payment methods, resources (the Telegram destinations you're protecting), and members.
- Plan — the pricing tier subscribers buy — "$9.99/month Premium", "$99 lifetime", etc. Plans have currency, billing cycle, trial rules, and audience filters.
- Resource — the thing a plan unlocks — a Telegram channel, a private group, a supergroup, or a manually-tracked digital good.
Once those three are set up and you've connected a bot, subscribers can join via your bot deep-link or your portal page.
Why does MemberPass exist?
Running a paid community on Telegram used to mean cobbling together spreadsheets, manual invite-link management, and nagging reminders about unpaid renewals. It worked until the first hundred members; past that it broke.
MemberPass is the tool that turns "running a paid community" into a repeatable, nearly-zero-touch operation — so creators can focus on the content, not the bookkeeping.
Security and compliance
Data residency and regulations
All MemberPass data is processed and stored in our North Virginia, United States data centres. We fully adhere to GDPR (for European subscribers) and CCPA (for California subscribers).
Account-level security
On the creator side, your account is protected by two-factor authentication, passkeys, and Telegram-based recovery. Payment credentials live with the payment providers themselves — MemberPass stores provider keys (encrypted) but never sees raw card numbers or crypto wallets.
How the money flows
Subscribers pay you
Your members pay through whichever payment provider they pick at checkout (Stripe, PayPal, Razorpay, and so on). The provider deposits the funds directly into your account — MemberPass never holds your revenue.
You pay MemberPass
You pay for your chosen creator plan (Free, Starter, or Growth) on a monthly or annual cycle, plus per-transaction fees on the income you process. Transaction fees come out either monthly or when you hit a usage threshold — see Transaction fees.
Payouts and refunds
Payouts to your bank and refunds to subscribers both happen at the payment-provider level (Stripe, PayPal, etc.). MemberPass reflects the current status but doesn't intermediate or hold funds.
The MemberPass ecosystem
Creator dashboard
The web app where you build and run projects. Sign in at app.memberpass.net (or whatever URL your deployment uses). Every setup task in this documentation ends with an action in the dashboard.
Official MemberPass bot
@MemberPassAppBot on Telegram — how you register for MemberPass and how you can manage projects on the go. Distinct from your own project bots; this is ours, shared across all creators.
Project bots
One Telegram bot per project, owned by you and created via @BotFather. You connect its API token to MemberPass, and from that point on it handles every subscriber interaction inside your community. See Connect your bot.
Project portals
Each project gets an auto-generated public portal page at my.memberpass.net/{your-handle}. Subscribers can browse your plans, subscribe, and manage their memberships from the web — useful for audiences not yet on Telegram.
Ready to try it?
- Quickstart — the 10-minute path from signup to first live plan.
- How it works — end-to-end tour of the subscriber-facing experience.
- For Creators — the full creator playbook.
Platform Introduction
The complete guide to MemberPass — launching, running, and growing subscription-based Telegram communities with automated member management.
How MemberPass Works
End-to-end walkthrough of the MemberPass flow — creator setup, subscriber signup, automated member management, and the money path.