Create Carbone expense reports from Telegram notes
Capture the purchase while the details are fresh. Turn an expense message into a structured Carbone report for review.
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
Generate Carbone Report
Tool to generate a carbone report from a template and json data. use when you need to render documents in various formats.
Why this helps
Small purchases shared in chat are easy to forget when it is time to assemble expense documentation.
- Collect the expense details stated in a message into a consistent document.
- Make receipts and reimbursement follow-up easier to organize.
- Reduce end-of-month reconstruction from memory.
Setup
Build it in a few focused steps.
- 1Connect Telegram and Carbone to Notis once through the portal.
- 2Create an automation in the portal or ask Notis to turn expense messages into Carbone reports.
- 3Use one plain-language instruction to generate an expense report only when a message describes a business expense, preserving stated amounts, dates, and currency.
- 4Choose the new-message trigger and a run-report channel, then test with one real expense note.
Questions about this workflow
Will it verify a purchase or receipt?
No. The workflow can organize details present in a message, but verification requires the relevant receipt or another source to be provided.
What if the currency is missing?
The instruction can ask Notis to mark the currency as unspecified rather than assume one.
When this happens · Trigger
Do this · Action
Supported Triggers and Actions
Notis builds workflows that link Telegram to Carbone. A trigger fires from one place; an action lands in another.
Telegram triggers
Carbone actions
Recurring trigger
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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.
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Callback Query Received
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Message Edited
Triggered when a message in a chat your bot can see is edited by its sender.
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New Chat Member
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Upload a template
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