Advance contact stages with one Telegram tap
Turn a deliberate button tap into an Apollo stage update, without reopening a conversation to remember what to do.
Trigger
Callback Query Received
Triggered when a user taps an inline keyboard button attached to one of your bot's messages.
Action
Update contact stage
Updates the stage for one or more existing contacts in apollo.io to a new valid contact stage, useful for managing sales funnel progression.
Why this helps
Even simple pipeline updates can stall when completing them requires leaving the chat where the decision happened.
- Make an explicit stage decision quick to complete.
- Reduce navigation between chat and CRM.
- Use an intentional tap to trigger a focused update.
Setup
Build it in a few focused steps.
- 1Connect Telegram and Apollo to Notis once through the portal.
- 2Create an automation in the portal or ask Notis to update an Apollo contact when you tap the stage-advance button.
- 3Describe the button meaning and the corresponding contact-stage change in one plain-language prompt.
- 4Select Callback Query Received as the Telegram trigger and choose a run-report channel.
- 5Test by tapping the real inline button and verifying the contact stage in Apollo.
Questions about this workflow
Does the automation create the inline button?
No. It responds when a user taps an inline keyboard button attached to a Telegram bot message.
How should the prompt identify the contact?
Describe the contact context available in the callback or linked message, and have Notis act only when it can identify the intended contact.
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Supported Triggers and Actions
Notis builds workflows that link Telegram to Apollo. A trigger fires from one place; an action lands in another.
Telegram triggers
Apollo actions
Recurring trigger
Notis starts this workflow on a schedule, such as daily, weekly, or during business hours.
Add Contacts to Sequence
Adds contacts to a specified apollo email sequence by initiating an asynchronous background job and returning its details.
Webhook trigger
Notis starts this workflow when an external tool or custom backend sends an HTTP request.
Bulk organization enrichment
Enriches data for up to 10 organizations simultaneously by providing a list of their base company domains (e.g., 'apollo.io', not 'www.apollo.io').
New Message Received
Triggered when your bot receives a new message in a private chat, group, or supergroup. To receive every message in a group, Privacy Mode must be disabled for the bot in BotFather.
Bulk people enrichment
Use to enrich multiple person profiles simultaneously with comprehensive data from apollo's database.
New Channel Post
Triggered when a new post is published to a channel where your bot is an administrator.
Bulk update account stage
Bulk updates the stage for specified existing apollo.io accounts, moving them to a valid new account stage.
Callback Query Received
Triggered when a user taps an inline keyboard button attached to one of your bot's messages.
Create an Apollo account
Creates a new account in apollo.io; a new record is created even if a similar account exists, and provided `owner id` or `account stage id` must be valid existing ids.
Message Edited
Triggered when a message in a chat your bot can see is edited by its sender.
Create Apollo contact
Creates a new contact in apollo.io; use `account id` to link to an organization and `contact stage id` for sales stage, noting that apollo does not perform automatic deduplication.
New Chat Member
Triggered when a new member joins a group or supergroup the bot belongs to, including when the bot itself is added.
Create Apollo deal
Creates a new sales opportunity (deal) in apollo.io; all provided ids (`owner id`, `account id`, `opportunity stage id`) must be valid existing apollo identifiers.
Create Apollo Task
Creates a distinct apollo.io task for each contact id in contact ids, assigning them to user id; this action is not for free plan users and repeated calls create duplicate tasks.
Connect any two apps with Notis in the middle.
Telegram and Apollo, or any other combination from 1,000+ integrations.
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