/buy command. Payment happens on a secure Stripe page, and your balance is updated as soon as Stripe confirms it.
Buy credits
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Send /buy
In the HomiAgent chat on Telegram, send
/buy. The bot shows your current balance, the minimum top-up, and the processing fee on small top-ups.2
Pick an amount
Tap one of the buttons (US$1, 2, 5, 10, 20, or 50), or send a whole number of dollars, for example
/buy 15. Amounts below the minimum don’t show up as buttons.3
Pay
The bot replies with a Pay button that opens the Stripe payment page. When you’re done, you’re sent back to Telegram.
Minimum amount and processing fee
- Minimum: US$1.
- Processing fee: purchases under US0.60 fee on top. From US$5 up, there’s no fee.
Choose your currency
You can pay in your local currency, such as USD, BRL, or EUR. The first time you buy, the bot asks which currency to pay in. You can change it at any time with/currency, using the currency code, its name, or the country. For example: /currency BRL, /currency real, or /currency Brazil.
- Your credits are still worth US$1 each. Only the amount charged to your card is converted.
- The conversion uses Stripe’s exchange rate at the time of purchase. The final amount is shown on the payment page.
- If a currency can’t be quoted,
/currencytells you. If the rate isn’t available when you buy, the purchase is made in US dollars and the bot says so.
When your credits arrive
Credits are added as soon as Stripe confirms the payment, usually within seconds. The payment page can finish before that, so if your balance hasn’t changed yet, wait a moment. When they arrive, you get:- a message in Telegram saying how many credits were added and what your balance is now (if you bought with
/buy). The message with the Pay button also changes to show that the payment was confirmed; - a confirmation email.
If the payment link expires
A payment link expires after a while, and its button disappears from the chat. Just send/buy again. A payment can’t be made twice from the same message.
Out of credits
With a zero balance the bot stops answering other messages, but/buy keeps working. The “out of credits” message already includes a Buy credits button.