EcoGift Giveaway Bot for Telegram

You run a channel and want to give subscribers a prize, but counting entries by hand and picking a winner from comments is a mess. EcoGift is a Telegram bot built for contests and giveaways 🎁.

It is a small bot with roughly fifty monthly users. That makes it a fit for people who want to try a simple tool without a heavy setup.

Eight commands cover the whole giveaway

All control lives in the bot menu. Here is what it offers:

• /create starts a new event, meaning a giveaway or contest.
• /giveaways opens management of events you already made.
• /channels handles your connected channels 🔔.
• /info shows help about giveaways.
• /account opens your profile.
• /top shows an activity ranking 📊.
• /tools holds extra utilities.
• /start takes you back to the main menu.

Launching your first contest

The flow is usually the same as in most bots of this kind. The exact buttons and steps are visible inside EcoGift itself.

1. Open the bot and send /start.
2. Connect your channel in the channels section.
3. Create an event with /create and set the conditions.
4. Publish the post and follow progress in the events section.

To post in a channel, a bot normally needs admin rights. Grant only the permissions it actually requires.

What fair rules look like

The bot is only a tool. Trust in the draw comes from you, and participants want clear conditions. Writing them takes five minutes.

• Prize. What the winner gets and who pays for it.
• Deadline. The date and time results are announced.
• Entry condition. Subscribing, pressing a button, or something else.
• Winner count. One place or several.
• Selection method. A random draw with no manual edits.

Put all of it in the post itself. You will see far fewer arguments in the comments.

Why giveaway prizes deserve caution

Telegram has plenty of scammers around the words gifts and giveaways. Some bots ask you to pay for a case, deposit Stars or enter card details for a chance to win. User reviews of such services are often full of complaints about lost money.

As a participant, never pay for the right to enter and never share codes from messages. As an organizer, do not ask people for money and do not promise what you cannot deliver.

What the profile and top are for

The profile section keeps your account data inside the bot, and the activity top shows who takes part most often. For an organizer that is a way to spot your most engaged subscribers and remember them in the next contest.

Several small prizes for activity tend to work better than one big prize a year. People get used to checking the channel.

Three checks before you launch

First, make sure the bot answers /start and opens its menu. Second, run a test event on a small channel. Third, decide in advance how the prize will be handed over and how you will confirm that the winner did not create an account just for the draw.

For prizes with real value, save a screenshot of the results and post it in the channel. Transparency matters more than pretty design.