Create your first community

1Start the bot

Open Telegram, search for @MyTavoraBot and press Start (or write /start). If you don't have any community yet, at the top of the menu you'll see a gold button: Create your first community. Press it to begin.

If you already have one and want to create another: My communities → New community.

2Create the community

The procedure is short and linear: 3 steps, one field at a time, no forms to fill out.

1. 1

   Name

   One line. It’s how members will see it in all the cards and messages published in the groups. You can change it whenever you like from Management → Settings.

2. 2

   How much Tavora you need

   Four modes: 🌱 Essential (Announcements, Events, Tasks), 🌿 Standard (+ Service desk, Library + AI, Forms), 🌳 Complete (all 9 features) or 🎛 Custom. If in doubt go for Standard: you can change it whenever from Management → Settings → 🧩 Features.

3. 3

   Confirm

   A summary, then “Create organization”: you’re in, with the recommended first steps and the buttons to copy or share the invite link. Manual approval of join requests is switched on later, from the “Invite members” menu.

3Link a group

A Tavora community lives in Telegram groups: that's where you vote, discuss, work on tasks. Add @MyTavoraBot to your group and promote it to administrator — the bot writes you privately and asks which community to link it to. Alternatively, from a group the bot is already in, type /link.

A community can link up to 20 groups, each with independent settings. For details see the Linking Telegram groups guide.

4Set the publication language

Go to Management → Settings → Language and choose the language the bot will use to write in linked groups: proposal cards, vote outcomes, task cards, minutes. 16 languages are available.

5Invite and assign roles

Now you open the community to people. Generate a Tavora invite link from Management → Members → Invites: single-use or reusable, with optional expiry. You share it wherever you want and whoever opens it walks straight into the community. For targeted invites to a specific person there's /add @username from a linked group: the bot sends them a personal request they accept or decline. If you want extra control, turn on the approval queue in Settings: every new join waits for your OK and you accept one by one or all at once.

Roles are how you give different powers to different people: Founder, Admin, Member system roles plus up to 20 custom roles — each with its own emoji and permissions. Tavora always respects the role hierarchy: no admin can remove anyone above them, and every ban is tracked with author and date. Full details (the 18 granular permissions, search, request management) are in the Roles and permissions guide and the Members guide.

6First action

You have the community, you have the group, you have the first members. The advice now is to run the loop at least once, even as an experiment. You understand Tavora by using it, not by reading.

7Announcements: targeted and scheduled

When there's something to tell everyone — or just a few people — you don't need to rewrite it group by group: from the community menu press Announcement, first decide who receives it, then write the message once and choose when it goes out.

8Practical tips

Six practices that make a difference, all based on features the bot really has: