Using a Pass
What to expect after buying a time-limited pass — joining the queue, when access opens and ends, and how you're admitted automatically.
A time-limited pass gets you into a channel for a window the creator scheduled — a Sunday slate, a market-open room, a single live class. Unlike an ordinary subscription, it does not start when you pay.
The practical difference is that joining and being admitted are two separate moments. You join whenever you like; you're admitted when the window opens. The bot tells you both times at every step, so you are never left guessing.
What happens, in order
You buy a date
At checkout you pick which window you want. The next available one is preselected, and any date you already hold is hidden so you can't buy the same window twice.
Most passes close sales shortly before a window starts, so one that's about to begin may no longer be listed. Some creators keep theirs on sale while the window is running — those show up marked On now, and buying one lets you in straight away.
You get a confirmation and an invite link
The bot confirms the purchase and names the plan, the exact window you bought and how long until access opens. It also tells you your invite links are coming in the next message, and that you can tap them straight away — your join request is held and approved automatically the moment access opens.
Your invite links arrive in that second message. The portal shows the same window on its confirmation screen, so you can check the date without going back to Telegram.
The invite link works immediately — but joining is not the same as being let in.
You can check it any time
You don't have to keep that message. Send /start to the bot again and a Your passes
block sits above the plan list, with a My pass button for each one you hold. Opening it
shows what you paid, the exact window, a countdown, and whether your join request is in the
queue.
The web portal shows the same thing: your window and countdown appear on the plan card next to Manage, and again under My Memberships.
Check whether your join request is actually sent
Every one of those screens says one of two things, and the difference matters:
- In the queue — you tapped your link. Nothing more to do; you'll be let in automatically when the window opens.
- Join request not sent — you haven't tapped it yet. Nothing is waiting to be approved, so you'd have to notice a message on the day and act on it.
If you see the second one, tap your invite link now. It costs nothing and takes the timing out of your hands.
You tap the link and join the queue
Tapping the link sends a join request that is held, not approved. Telegram shows your request as pending, and the channel won't appear in your chat list yet.
The bot replies immediately to confirm you're in the queue, and lists when access opens, when it ends and how long you'll have. It also makes the point that you don't need to do anything else or be online at the time — you'll be added the moment the window opens.
Your place is already held, so there's no need to tap the link again, cancel the request, or ask for a new link.
You're reminded before the window opens
The bot messages you about a day before the window opens, and again about an hour before. Both name the plan, the window and an exact countdown to the opening, so you can plan around it without doing the arithmetic yourself.
What the reminder asks of you depends on where you stand:
- Not in the queue yet? It carries your invite link as a button, so joining is one tap.
- Already queued? It says outright that there is nothing to do, and that the window goes ahead as scheduled unless the organiser cancels it. No buttons, because tapping a second time would only produce a request Telegram refuses.
A milestone that had already passed when you bought — a pass bought two hours before its window never gets a day's notice — is skipped rather than sent late.
The organiser can also send one by hand, at any point before the window opens. It arrives headed Reminder from their project name and says outright that it was sent manually, so a nudge landing outside the usual times is not the bot misfiring. It carries your invite link exactly like the automatic ones, and is only sent to people who haven't queued yet.
Passes don't use the 7/3/2/1-day expiry ladder that ordinary subscriptions do. A window is often shorter than a day, so the reminders are keyed to it opening instead.
The window opens and you're admitted
At the start time your request is approved automatically. You do not need to be online, awake, or holding your phone. The channel simply appears.
The bot tells you the moment it happens. The message names the plan and the window, counts down to when access ends, and carries a Join button for every channel or group the pass covers — so getting to what you paid for is one tap from the notification, not a hunt through older messages. It also makes the point that access is removed on its own when the window closes, so there is nothing to cancel.
If you never tapped your link, that message is your invite arriving fresh — but you then have to be at your phone to use it, which is exactly what joining the queue early avoids.
The window closes and the pass ends
You're removed and the pass is marked complete — unless another pass of yours, or an ordinary subscription, still grants that same channel. Removal is decided per channel, so holding a monthly membership as well means you keep your seat.
If the organiser cancels your window
Sessions get postponed. When the organiser cancels a dated window, you are moved to their next available date on the same plan — you don't lose what you paid for, and you are not charged again. Every window on a plan costs the same, which is what makes the move an even swap rather than a downgrade.
You'll get a message naming the plan, the date that was cancelled, the date you now hold, and when access opens. What it asks of you depends on whether you had already tapped your invite link:
- Already in the queue? Nothing to do. Your place moves with you and you'll be admitted automatically on the new date.
- Not yet? The message carries your invite link as a button — tap it to queue for the new date, exactly as you would have for the old one.
You are never moved onto a date you already hold a pass for. If you had bought both the 29th and the 5th, you'd be moved to the one after that instead.
If there's no later date, your pass ends
When the organiser has nothing else scheduled, your pass ends instead. You're told which date was cancelled, that the pass has ended, and that nothing further will be charged.
Refunds are the organiser's to issue, not Subscriby's — message them directly.
Put it in your calendar
On the portal, your membership offers Add to your calendar: a link that drops the window into Apple Calendar, Google Calendar or Outlook, with a reminder an hour before access opens.
Worth doing even for a single date. You tap your invite link days early and then there is nothing to do until the window opens — which is precisely when a date gets forgotten. The bot reminds you too, but the calendar is where you plan around it.
Treat the link as private
It works without a login, so anyone you send it to can see your dates. If you share it by mistake, use Shared this by mistake? Get a new link — the old address stops working immediately and you resubscribe with the new one.
After it has run
A finished pass does not vanish from the portal. My Memberships carries a Past section below your active memberships, listing every pass and series that has run. Opening one shows what you paid and the window it covered.
Only dated purchases are kept there. An ordinary subscription that lapsed is not listed, because there is nothing to have attended.
If you bought a whole season at once
Some creators sell a pass series — a season ticket covering many dates for one payment. Everything on this page still applies to each date individually, but you also get a timetable covering every date, and messages when one is added, moved or dropped. That has its own page.
Reading the times
Window times are always shown in the creator's timezone, with the zone beside them —
"Sun 21 Sep 2026, 09:00 – 23:00 EDT". Zones without a common abbreviation are written as an
offset instead, so Colombo reads GMT+5:30 rather than something unrecognisable.
A countdown runs alongside it and is the part to trust if you are in another country. Beyond
a day it counts down in units — 2d 14h 32m — and inside the final day it becomes a clock,
14:32:08, so an imminent window reads like one.
Times are not converted to your own timezone anywhere. Both the portal and the bot show the creator's zone only, so if you are somewhere else, work from the countdown rather than the clock time.
Questions
Related
- Using a Pass Series — when one payment covers a whole slate of dates
- Choosing a plan — how a pass differs from the other plan types
- Manage your subscription — where your passes are listed
- Troubleshooting — access problems that aren't the queue
How is this guide?
Choosing a Plan
Understand the types of plans a creator can offer — recurring, one-time, time-limited passes, lifetime, trial — so you know exactly what you're signing up for.
Using a Pass Series
What to expect after buying a season ticket — your timetable, how each date lets you in and out, and what happens if one is cancelled.