Mini App Telegram

Case studies / Mini App · Telegram

The TMS in your pocket, inside Telegram.

A Telegram Mini App that brings our TMS inside the chat: orders and their statuses on your phone, in the messenger the team already uses — with no app to install. A mobile companion to the system, built by our team.

Telegram bot: @massimoalefBot

@massimoalefBot
Telegram Mini App of the TMS opened inside the chat, with the list of orders and their statuses

The problem

The TMS lives in the browser, but clients and translators are on their phones.

The group’s TMS handles everything — orders, clients, translators, invoices — but it is built for work at a desk. Anyone who just needs to check a status or reply quickly is almost always on the move, phone in hand.

On a phone, logging into the back office is friction: notifications sent a link to the site where you still had to sign in. What was needed was a way to open the order in one tap, right where the team already chats every day.

Our answer

The TMS inside Telegram, with nothing to install.

We built a Telegram Mini App on the @massimoalefBot bot: orders open right inside the chat, access is automatic, and from a notification you reach the right screen in a single tap. It is the channel for short actions — the heavy work stays in the full TMS.

Opens inside Telegram, from the chat — no app to install
Automatic login: the user is recognised from their Telegram profile
Bot notifications with a button that goes straight to the order
A kind of Mini App that few in Italy still offer

What we built

The features, all designed for the phone.

01Access with no install. Opens in the Telegram chat, from the @massimoalefBot bot. No store, no APK, no updates to download.
02Automatic login. The user is recognised from their Telegram profile: no email and password to re-enter each time.
03Notifications in one tap. The bot alerts you — “order ready”, “you’ve been assigned a job” — and the button opens the right screen, already signed in.
04Each role its own. Client, translator, manager and administrator: everyone sees only their own screens — orders, jobs, today’s summary.
05Short actions, not the desk. Check a status, reply, confirm, download the finished translation. The heavy work stays in the full TMS.
06Theme from the chat. Light or dark: the Mini App automatically follows the Telegram theme of whoever opens it.

How it’s built inside

No new app: the same TMS, another way in.

The Mini App is the same frontend as the TMS, with a dedicated way in through Telegram. It reuses the same endpoints and the same role checks as the back office: no new permissions, no shortcuts. Access starts from the data Telegram signs for every user, validated on our backend.

BaseThe same TMS frontend, with a dedicated entry point inside Telegram
SDK@telegram-apps/sdk-react — the only added dependency
LoginTelegram-signed data (initData) validated on the backend, with an expiry
APIReuses the same endpoints and roles as the TMS, with no new permissions
NotificationsRouted through a Cloudflare Worker, with a button to the Mini App
SecurityFiles only through a protected endpoint; one Telegram account = one user

The phases

One role at a time, in two weeks.

First the foundations — the entry point and the Telegram login — then one role at a time, so each phase delivers something usable. The same method we use to bring clients’ projects online.

01Foundations. Dedicated entry point inside Telegram, automatic login and linking the account to the TMS.
02Client. My orders, detail and status, chat with the bureau, download of the finished translation.
03Translator. Assigned jobs, deadlines in order of urgency, delivery of the finished work.
04Manager and administrator. Today, orders by status, tasks; incoming requests from new clients for the administrator only.

The result

Used every day, from the phone.

2weeks

from kickoff to the Mini App in production

10+

people a day use it to follow orders from their phone

0

installs: it opens inside Telegram, from the chat

COMPANION TO THE REMARKA GROUP TMS — @massimoalefBot

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