Yig’im Bot
Telegram bot · group money pool
Yig’im Bot takes over the rotating money pool a group of friends runs between themselves. It collects the members with a button, lets each person pick their own place in the queue, and when the deadline arrives it tags whoever has not paid yet, in the group, without anyone having to ask.
Circle 1
Example
| Place | Participant | Status |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Aziz | Current turn |
| 2 | Dilnoza | Next turn |
| 3 | Bekzod | In the queue |
Introduction
A yig’im is a common arrangement in Uzbek communities: a group of people pays into one pot every round, one member takes the whole pot each time, and when everyone has had a turn the circle starts over. People also call it a “qora kassa”. In English it is usually described as a rotating savings circle or money pool. Somebody normally keeps the tally in a notebook, and sooner or later the group chat fills up with an argument about who paid and who did not.
Yig’im Bot takes that bookkeeping off a person and puts it in the group. You add the bot to your Telegram group, it collects the participants through a button, each participant taps the position they want in the queue, and from then on the bot runs the rotation itself, starting at number one. It remembers whose turn it is, when the deadline for handing over the money runs out, and who has already handed theirs over.
One thing it deliberately does not do: the bot never tracks amounts. It only tracks the state “paid / not paid”. How much everyone puts in each round is between the members — the bot’s job is to keep the order and the payment marks straight so nobody has to remember them.
The strongest part is the automatic reminders. Every day at 08:00 and 19:00 Tashkent time the bot looks at the turns whose deadline has arrived or already passed, and tags the people who have not paid, in the group. That means fewer rounds lost to “sorry, it slipped my mind”, and nobody in the circle has to write private messages asking friends for money.
It is built for a circle of friends, a work team, a family group — any group of people who run a turn-based pot between themselves.
/odam_qoshish opens a new one.Problem
In a normal yig’im one person writes the tally down and then has to go round the group every round asking each member for their share. The bot takes both jobs. Payments are marked with a tap of a button, and the reminder to the people who still owe is written by the bot itself, in the group, at a fixed time.
Who goes first is exactly the question that turns a friendly pot into a quarrel. In Yig’im Bot each participant picks their own number, the whole order is visible to the group while it is being picked, and once it is confirmed the rotation runs in that order and nowhere else.
The payment state lives in one place in the chat, in a list everyone can see: ✅ To’laganlar, the people who have paid, and ⭕️ To’lamaganlar, the people who have not. Only the holder of that turn can change it — that is, the person who actually received the money.
The turn holder sets a final date once, and after that the bot watches the calendar. On the last day and on every day after it, the members who still owe get tagged in the group. Nobody has to send a private nudge to anyone.
Getting started
Put the bot in the Telegram group where the yig’im is run. Everything happens inside that group.
This one is a recommendation: with admin rights the bot can delete its own message when someone taps 🛑 To’xtatish.
In BotFather, set Privacy Mode to “Disable”. This step is required — without it the bot cannot see reply messages and will never accept the deadline date.
The bot posts a message with buttons, and everyone who wants to take part taps ✅ Qo’shilish to join.
Each member picks their own number, then someone taps ✔️ Tasdiqlash to confirm. The bot announces the first turn holder immediately.
They type /muddat_belgilash and reply to the bot’s message with the date, written as day.month.year.
The turn holder marks the payments with /pul_olish, and the 💯 Hammasi to’ladi button closes the turn and passes it to the next person.
Walkthrough
The bot replies, button labels and pop-ups below are the bot’s real text, not rewritten for this page — and they are in Uzbek, because Uzbek is the only language Yig’im Bot speaks. The English notes under each step tell you what they say. The example circle has three people: Aziz, Dilnoza and Bekzod. The first turn belongs to Aziz, so he is the one typing the commands; the names, dates and numbers are made up for the example.
Someone types /odam_qoshish in the group. The bot posts a message with buttons under it, and that one message keeps changing afterwards: when a person taps “Qo’shilish”, the bot does not send anything new, it redraws the list inside the message it already posted. The heading “👥 Qatnashchilarni qo’shish” means “adding participants”, and the last line of the first version says that nobody has joined yet.
Yig’im circle
group
/odam_qoshish
👥 Qatnashchilarni qo’shish
Yig’imda qatnashmoqchi bo’lganlar "Qo’shilish" tugmasini bossin. Fikringizdan qaytsangiz — "Chiqish".
Qatnashchilar (0): Hozircha hech kim qo’shilmagan.
👥 Qatnashchilarni qo’shish
Yig’imda qatnashmoqchi bo’lganlar "Qo’shilish" tugmasini bossin. Fikringizdan qaytsangiz — "Chiqish".
Qatnashchilar (3): 1. Aziz 2. Dilnoza 3. Bekzod
Once the members are in, someone types /tartiblash. The bot prints one button per position under the heading “🔢 Navbatni belgilash”, which means “set the queue”, and each person taps the number they want for themselves. Tapping a number that is already taken gets you nothing but a pop-up refusal.
Yig’im circle
group
/tartiblash
🔢 Navbatni belgilash
Har bir qatnashchi o’ziga mos raqamni tanlasin — bu pul olish navbati. Tanlagan raqamingizni qayta bossangiz, u bo’shab qoladi. Boshqaning raqamini o’zgartira olmaysiz.
—. ❔ Aziz —. ❔ Dilnoza —. ❔ Bekzod
Hamma raqamini tanlagach "Tasdiqlash" tugmasini bosing.
🔢 Navbatni belgilash
Har bir qatnashchi o’ziga mos raqamni tanlasin — bu pul olish navbati. Tanlagan raqamingizni qayta bossangiz, u bo’shab qoladi. Boshqaning raqamini o’zgartira olmaysiz.
1. ✅ Aziz 2. ✅ Dilnoza —. ❔ Bekzod
Hamma raqamini tanlagach "Tasdiqlash" tugmasini bosing.
Pop-up window from the bot: Bu raqamni boshqa qatnashchi tanlagan
Yig’im circle
group
✅ Navbat tartibi saqlandi 1. Aziz 2. Dilnoza 3. Bekzod
🎯 Navbat @aziz ga o’tdi — 1-o’rin.
Qolgan qatnashchilar pulni @aziz ga topshiradi.
@aziz, /muddat_belgilash buyrug’i orqali pul topshirishning oxirgi sanasini belgilang.
Only the person whose turn it is sets the deadline. The bot does not accept the date as an ordinary message: it asks you to reply to its own message, the one headed “📅 Oxirgi sanani belgilash”, which means “set the final date”. Because it arrives as a reply, the date cannot get mixed up with the rest of the group conversation.
Yig’im circle
group
/muddat_belgilash
📅 Oxirgi sanani belgilash
Qolgan qatnashchilar pulni qaysi sanagacha topshirishi kerak?
Sanani kun.oy.yil ko’rinishida shu xabarga javob (reply) qilib yozing. Masalan: 25.08.2026
📅 Oxirgi sanani belgilash
25.08.2026
✅ Oxirgi sana belgilandi: 25.08.2026
Shu sanagacha 2 ta qatnashchi pulni topshirishi kerak. Sana yaqinlashganda eslatib turaman.
As the money starts coming in, the turn holder types /pul_olish. The bot lists the people who have not paid and puts one button next to each of them. The turn holder is not on that list — the money is being handed to them, so they do not pay themselves. The buttons are locked to the turn holder too: anyone else who taps one gets a pop-up refusal.
Yig’im circle
group
/pul_olish
💰 To’lovlar — 1-navbat
Muddat: 25.08.2026 Pulni topshirganlarni tugmalar orqali belgilang.
⭕️ To’lamaganlar (2): 2. Dilnoza 3. Bekzod
Pop-up window from the bot: Bu tugmalarni faqat navbat egasi bosa oladi
Yig’im circle
group
💰 To’lovlar — 1-navbat
Muddat: 25.08.2026 Pulni topshirganlarni tugmalar orqali belgilang.
✅ To’laganlar (1): 2. Dilnoza
⭕️ To’lamaganlar (1): 3. Bekzod
When everyone has handed over their share, the turn holder taps 💯 Hammasi to’ladi, the “everyone has paid” button. The bot closes that turn and announces the next one. When the last turn is closed, the whole circle is finished and the bot says so.
Yig’im circle
group
✅ 1-navbat yopildi
Pulni Aziz oldi. Barcha qatnashchilar to’lagan deb belgilandi.
🎉 1-aylana yakunlandi!
Barcha qatnashchilar navbati bilan pulni olib bo’ldi.
Yangi aylanani boshlash uchun /odam_qoshish buyrug’ini yozing.
Nobody writes these messages — the bot sends them on its own. At 08:00 and 19:00 Tashkent time, every day, it checks the turns whose deadline has arrived or already passed, and tags the people who have not paid, in the group. There are two kinds of reminder: one for the final day, and one for a deadline that has already passed.
Yig’im circle
group
⏰ Bugun — pul topshirishning oxirgi kuni!
Pul @aziz ga topshiriladi.
✅ To’laganlar (1): Dilnoza
❌ To’lamaganlar (1): @bekzod
Yig’im circle
group
🔴 Muddat o’tib ketdi
Pul topshirish muddati 25.08.2026 da tugagan. Pul @aziz ga topshiriladi.
Hali to’lamaganlar: @bekzod
Iltimos, kechiktirmang.
Any participant can type /holat and get the whole picture: whose turn it is right now, when the deadline runs out, how many payments have been marked and who is next in the queue. The line “Holat: navbatlar ketyapti” means the rotation is under way.
Yig’im circle
group
/holat
📊 1-aylana
Holat: navbatlar ketyapti Qatnashchilar: 3 ta
🎯 Hozirgi navbat: 1-o’rin — Aziz 📅 Muddat: 25.08.2026 💰 To’lovlar: 1 / 2
⏭ Keyingi navbat: 2-o’rin — Dilnoza
Setting the deadline, marking payments and sending reminders belong to the holder of the current turn and to nobody else. If another participant types one of those commands, the bot names the person whose turn it is and refuses.
Yig’im circle
group
/muddat_belgilash
Hozir navbat Aziz da (1-o’rin).
Bu buyruqni faqat navbat egasi ishlata oladi.
Features
The /odam_qoshish command posts one message with buttons under it. Anyone who wants in taps “Qo’shilish” (join); anyone who changes their mind taps “Chiqish” to leave. The list is redrawn inside that same message, so the group chat does not fill up with a message per person.
The /tartiblash command prints one numbered button per position. Each member taps the number they want and the chosen ones get a ✅. Tapping your own number again releases it, and you cannot touch a number somebody else has taken.
Once the order is confirmed, the bot announces the person in first place and the turn moves to them. When a turn is closed, the bot announces the next participant on its own, and at the end of the circle it posts that the whole round is finished.
The turn holder types /muddat_belgilash and the bot asks for a date. You answer by replying to that specific bot message, writing the date as day.month.year. A malformed date or a date that has already passed is refused.
The /pul_olish command shows who still owes and puts one button next to each of them. Tapping a button moves that person into the ✅ To’laganlar list — the people who have paid. The turn holder is not on the list at all, because they do not pay themselves.
At 08:00 and 19:00 Tashkent time, every day, the bot checks the turns whose deadline has come and tags the people who have not paid, in the group. The turn holder can also fire a reminder by hand at any moment with /eslatish.
The /holat command gives the whole picture: which round of the circle this is, how many participants there are, whose turn it is now, the deadline, the payment count and who is up next.
If you type a hyphen instead of an underscore, the bot still understands you: /muddat-belgilash and /muddat_belgilash do the same thing.
Commands
| Command | Who can use it | Where | What it does |
|---|---|---|---|
/start | anyone | DM + group | Introduces the bot |
/yordam, /help | anyone | DM + group | Shows the manual |
/odam_qoshish | anyone | group | Opens a circle and collects members |
/tartiblash | anyone | group | Picks the positions in the queue |
/holat | anyone | group | Current state of the circle |
/muddat_belgilash | turn holder | group | Sets the final date |
/pul_olish | turn holder | group | Marks payments and closes the turn |
/eslatish | turn holder | group | Tags the members who have not paid |
A hyphen works in place of an underscore (/muddat-belgilash). Yig’im does its real work in the group: /odam_qoshish, /tartiblash, /holat, /muddat_belgilash, /pul_olish and /eslatish only run in a group chat, while /start and /yordam also answer in a private chat with the bot.
Refusals
These replies appear when a step goes wrong. The wording is the bot’s own, in Uzbek — the situation on the left says in English what triggered it.
| Situation | What the bot says |
|---|---|
| Someone other than the turn holder runs the command | Hozir navbat Aziz da (1-o’rin). Bu buyruqni faqat navbat egasi ishlata oladi. |
| Someone else taps a payment button | Bu tugmalarni faqat navbat egasi bosa oladi |
| Not enough people to set an order | Navbatni belgilash uchun kamida 2 ta qatnashchi kerak. Hozir — 1 ta. |
| The position is already taken | Bu raqamni boshqa qatnashchi tanlagan |
| The date is written in the wrong format | Sana noto’g’ri yozilgan. |
| The date is in the past | O’tib ketgan sanani belgilab bo’lmaydi. |
| A group command is typed in a private chat | Bu buyruq faqat guruhda ishlaydi. |
| Someone who has already taken the pot tries to leave | Siz pulni olib bo’lgansiz, aylanadan chiqa olmaysiz |
Limits
In BotFather, set Privacy Mode to “Disable” for the bot. Without that the bot does not see reply messages in the group at all, so the deadline date is never accepted. This is the setup mistake people hit most often.
The bot does its main work without admin rights, but it cannot delete its own message when someone taps 🛑 To’xtatish. Making it an administrator of the group is the tidier setup.
It keeps no sums, no currency and no running debt. It stores the “paid / not paid” state and nothing more — how much each member puts in is for the circle to agree between themselves.
Only the remaining participants appear in the payment list. In a circle of three that means two payments are marked in every turn.
/muddat_belgilash, /pul_olish and /eslatish work only for the holder of the current turn. Everything else can be run by anyone in the circle.
The circle commands do nothing in a private chat — there you get “Bu buyruq faqat guruhda ishlaydi.”, meaning the command only works in a group. A private chat with the bot gives you the introduction and the manual, and that is all.
A deadline is written as 25.08.2026 and the clock runs on Tashkent time. Another format gets you “Sana noto’g’ri yozilgan.”, meaning the date is written wrong. A day that has already passed gets “O’tib ketgan sanani belgilab bo’lmaydi.”
A participant whose turn has come and gone cannot drop out of the circle. Trying it returns “Siz pulni olib bo’lgansiz, aylanadan chiqa olmaysiz”: you have already taken the money, so you cannot leave. It protects what the others are still owed.
Questions
No. The bot does not track amounts at all — it stores the “paid / not paid” state and nothing else. How much each member hands over is agreed by the circle; what the bot keeps straight is the order, the deadline and the payment marks.
No. The person whose turn it is does not appear in the /pul_olish list, because the money is handed to them. That is why a circle of three has two payments marked in every turn.
Admin rights are recommended but not required: with them, the bot can delete its own message when someone taps 🛑 To’xtatish. The setting that really is required is a different one — Privacy Mode must be set to “Disable” in BotFather.
There are three likely reasons. First, the date has to be a reply to the bot’s “📅 Oxirgi sanani belgilash” message, not a message of its own. Second, if Privacy Mode is still on, the bot cannot see reply messages at all. Third, the format has to be day.month.year, otherwise you get “Sana noto’g’ri yozilgan.” — and a day that has already passed gets “O’tib ketgan sanani belgilab bo’lmaydi.”
Only the holder of the current turn, meaning the person receiving the money. /muddat_belgilash, /pul_olish and /eslatish do nothing for anybody else: the bot replies “Hozir navbat Aziz da (1-o’rin).” to name whose turn it is, then “Bu buyruqni faqat navbat egasi ishlata oladi.” to say that only the turn holder can run the command. The payment buttons behave the same way, and a tap from anyone else raises the pop-up “Bu tugmalarni faqat navbat egasi bosa oladi”.
Every day at 08:00 and 19:00 Tashkent time. On the final day the bot posts “⏰ Bugun — pul topshirishning oxirgi kuni!”, and once the deadline has passed it keeps sending “🔴 Muddat o’tib ketdi”. In both cases the people who have not paid are tagged with an @. The turn holder can also send the reminder by hand with /eslatish instead of waiting.
Tap your own number a second time and it is released, so you can choose another one. You cannot change somebody else’s number — tapping a taken one returns “Bu raqamni boshqa qatnashchi tanlagan”, meaning another participant has it. To start the whole order again there is a 🗑 Bekor qilish button.
While the members are still being collected, yes — the ❌ Chiqish button takes you back off the list. But once your turn has come and you have taken the pot, you cannot leave: the bot answers “Siz pulni olib bo’lgansiz, aylanadan chiqa olmaysiz”.
At least two to set an order. If /tartiblash is typed with a single participant, the bot replies “Navbatni belgilash uchun kamida 2 ta qatnashchi kerak. Hozir — 1 ta.”: the queue needs at least two people, and right now there is one.
When the last turn is closed, the bot posts “🎉 1-aylana yakunlandi!” to say the circle is complete, and offers /odam_qoshish as the way to start a new one. So the next round begins whenever the group wants, in the same group chat.
Only /start and /yordam work there — the introduction and the manual. The commands that run the circle are group-only: typed in a private chat, they return “Bu buyruq faqat guruhda ishlaydi.”
Yes. A hyphen in place of the underscore is understood the same way — /muddat-belgilash and /muddat_belgilash do exactly the same thing.
Uzbek only. There is no language switch in the bot, so every message, button and reminder you see in Telegram is in Uzbek — which is why the chat examples on this page are shown in Uzbek with English notes beside them. Dates are written day.month.year and times run on Tashkent time.
Wrap-up
Add the bot to your yig’im group, turn Privacy Mode off, and type /odam_qoshish — the first circle is set up in a couple of minutes.