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Now that you've added a custom bot, we need to add it to your contact list and initiate a conversation so that it's ready to receive messages from us.
Enter the name or username of your new bot in the search bar (both "NETxTutorialBot" in our case) and click it. The conversation opens.
Click the "Start" button to initiate the conversation and send an initial messages so that everything's set up correctly (for example "hello").
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Perfect. You have initiated a conversation with your new bot. This means that it's almost ready to be used. The last step is to retrieve the chat ID, which is the unique identifier of the initiated conversation.

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Write down the chat ID, in this case "569011464", because we'll need it in the next step.

(tick)(tick) Well done, you have now finished setting everything up. Now let's configure your telegram bot within the NETx BMS Core Server.

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