Swap & Grant Resource

Move a healthy channel or group to a new chat on demand, from the Resources table, with every member re-admitted — without spending a recovery allowance.

Not every move is a disaster. You may want to leave a group whose history got messy, split a community into a fresh supergroup, or hand a channel over to a new one with a better name. Swap & Grant Resource gives you the recovery's swap and re-admission machinery for exactly that, from the place you already manage resources.

Where it is

Open the project, go to Resources, open the actions menu on a channel or group and choose Swap & Grant Resource. The dialog explains what will happen: the resource keeps its place in your plans; every member with active access, and every pass holder inside an open window, receives a personal link to the new chat and is admitted automatically; the old chat is left as it is and the links into it are revoked.

What it costs, and when it counts

Nothing, and never — as long as the resource is healthy. A swap you choose to make is filed in your history as On Demand, spends no recovery allowance, does not join a running channel recovery, and is never absorbed by one.

A degraded resource is a recovery

If our last probe found the resource degraded (the chat is gone, or the bot lost its rights), the dialog says This counts as a channel recovery: replacing it is self-service once every 90 days with support review beyond that, and the Disaster Recovery page walks you through it with the roll call. The same rule from either door, so nobody can route around the allowance by swapping from the Resources table.

Choosing how members are told

The dialog asks the same question as the recovery step, and remembers your answer per project:

Email them for me — members our bot cannot reach on Telegram are emailed their new link, at $0.01 per email added to your transaction fees.
I will email them myself — nobody is emailed; Download Member List (CSV) gives you every member the swap moves, with the email they verified or paid with if any.

Members the bot can reach are always told through the bot, with their new invite link, the moment the swap runs.

When the bot itself is down

If your project bot no longer answers Telegram, the dialog says so — Your project bot no longer answers Telegram — and offers Relink the Bot instead of the swap. Members cannot be told through a dead bot, so connect a new one first from the Disaster Recovery page, then come back and swap the chat, so the invite links actually reach them.

Picking the new chat

Press Pick the New Chat on Telegram. Our platform bot sends you the chat-picker button on Telegram, exactly as in a channel recovery; or make the bot an administrator of the new chat and confirm its offer. The dialog shows Waiting on Telegram until the bot has the chat, and lets you withdraw the request.

The type must match — a group may become a supergroup, nothing else changes type — and a chat that is already a resource anywhere is refused.

After the swap

The resource points at the new chat, switched on and healthy.
Every entitled member is re-admitted through the queue; the history row shows the roll call, the Remind button and the Undo button for 24 hours.
project.resource.updated fires with the chat change.

Example: splitting a community

A fitness coach's single Members group has grown to 900 people and turned into noise. They create a new supergroup with topics, open Resources → Members → Swap & Grant Resource, keep I will email them myself because they will announce it in the old group anyway, and pick the new supergroup on Telegram. 900 personal links go out through the bot over the next minute; the old group stays as an archive with its links revoked. No incident, no allowance spent — and had the coach picked the wrong supergroup, Undo on the history page would have put everyone back within the day.