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See donor follow-ups in one Telegram digest

Start your day with a short list of donor follow-ups drawn from the Blackbaud information available to Notis, delivered in Telegram on your schedule.

Trigger

Recurring schedule

Notis starts this workflow on a schedule, such as daily, weekly, or during business hours.

Action

Send Message

Send a text message to a telegram chat using the bot api.

Why this helps

Important donor next steps can disappear in a long queue of records and interruptions.

  • Bring follow-up priorities into a familiar chat.
  • Reduce repeated record checking.
  • Make the next donor action easier to spot.

Setup

Build it in a few focused steps.

  • 1Connect Blackbaud and Telegram once in the Notis portal.
  • 2Create an automation in Automations, New Automation, and name the digest.
  • 3In one instruction, ask Notis to review the Blackbaud donor information it can access, summarize follow-ups that need attention, and send the digest to your Telegram destination.
  • 4Pick a notis_cron schedule and choose where run reports should go.
  • 5Test with one real example and confirm the digest reflects available records.

Questions about this workflow

What does the scheduled trigger do?

A notis_cron trigger starts the workflow on the recurring schedule you choose.

Will it know which donors are overdue?

Only if accessible Blackbaud information includes a due date, follow-up status, or other signal. If not, supply the criteria in your instruction or use a webhook that includes them.

Can I send the digest to a Telegram group?

You can specify the Telegram chat destination in your instruction, provided the bot can access that chat.

When this happens · Trigger

Do this · Action

Supported Triggers and Actions

Notis builds workflows that link Blackbaud to Telegram. A trigger fires from one place; an action lands in another.

Blackbaud triggers

Telegram actions

Recurring trigger

Notis starts this workflow on a schedule, such as daily, weekly, or during business hours.

TriggerScheduled

Answer Callback Query

Use this method to send answers to callback queries sent from inline keyboards. the answer will be displayed to the user as a notification at the top of the chat screen or as an alert.

ActionInstant

Webhook trigger

Notis starts this workflow when an external tool or custom backend sends an HTTP request.

TriggerInstant

Delete Message

Delete a message, including service messages, with certain limitations.

ActionInstant

Edit Message

Edit text messages sent by the bot.

ActionInstant

Export Chat Invite Link

Generate a new primary invite link for a chat; any previously generated primary link is revoked. the bot must be an administrator in the chat for this to work and must have the appropriate administrator rights.

ActionInstant

Forward Message

Forward messages of any kind. service messages can't be forwarded.

ActionInstant

Get Chat Info

Get up to date information about the chat (current name of the user for one-on-one conversations, current username of a user, group or channel, etc.).

ActionInstant

Get Chat Administrators

Get a list of administrators in a chat. on success, returns an array of chatmember objects that contains information about all chat administrators except other bots.

ActionInstant

Get Chat History

Get chat history messages. note: this uses the getupdates method with specific parameters to retrieve historical messages.

ActionInstant

Connect any two apps with Notis in the middle.

Blackbaud and Telegram, or any other combination from 1,000+ integrations.

When this happens · Trigger

Do this · Action

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