Turn Telegram expense messages into HR records
Record the expense while the receipt and context are still easy to find in the conversation.
Trigger
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.
Action
Create Employee Expense
Tool to create an employee expense record in BreatheHR. Use when an employee needs to submit a new expense claim for reimbursement or record a company-paid expense.
Why this helps
Expense notes and receipts can be scattered across chats, making claims harder to assemble later.
- Reduce the gap between reporting and recording an expense.
- Keep expense context with its HR record.
- Identify missing information before reimbursement work begins.
Setup
Build it in a few focused steps.
- 1Connect Telegram and Breathe HR to Notis once through the portal.
- 2Create an automation in the portal or tell Notis what expense reports it should handle.
- 3Write one instruction asking Notis to create an expense record for a clearly reported employee expense and request or flag missing information instead of guessing.
- 4Choose Telegram New Message Received as the trigger and select a run-report channel.
- 5Test with one real expense message and check the record details.
Questions about this workflow
Can the workflow create a reimbursement claim too?
This workflow creates an expense record. A separate flow can group unclaimed expenses into a claim when appropriate.
What if a receipt is not attached?
Instruct Notis to flag the missing receipt or ask the employee for it before proceeding, according to your process.
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Supported Triggers and Actions
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Telegram triggers
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