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Your venue runs on a bot you own. You create it, you keep control of it, and you can revoke Ace Up’s access at any time by rotating the token in BotFather.
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Create the bot in BotFather

Open @BotFather and send /newbot.Give it a display name and a username. This is what your members will see, so use your community’s name rather than anything mentioning Ace Up.BotFather replies with a token — a long string of digits, a colon, then letters. That token is the bot: treat it like a password.
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Start /newvenue

Open @Aceupgamebot and send /newvenue.You are shown the owner agreement first and asked to accept it before a venue exists at all. Then you are asked for your venue’s name.
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Paste the token

Paste the BotFather token into the chat when asked.What happens next, in order:
  1. Ace Up calls Telegram’s getMe with it, to confirm it is a real bot token and to read the bot’s ID and username.
  2. The token is encrypted at rest under a key used for nothing else.
  3. Your message is deleted from the chat.
The token is never written to a log. A dump of the whole database does not reveal it.
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Wait for activation

Your venue sits as pending until a person at Ace Up approves it. Nothing runs under your bot before that.See Activation.

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Rotating or revoking the token

You own the bot, so you can take it back whenever you like.
  • Revoke — /revoke in BotFather invalidates the token. Your venue pauses automatically, because the bot stops answering, and you get a message from @Aceupgamebot telling you so.
  • Rotate — get a fresh token from BotFather, send /newtoken to @Aceupgamebot and paste it. A bot that was activated once goes straight back live: same venue, same links, the connection reinstalled, no second approval. A bot that was never activated waits for the admin card as usual.
One venue per owner: sending /newvenue again points you at /setup and /newtoken instead of creating a second venue. A second group is linked to the same venue and bot, not to a new one.
Token rotation is done in the bot chat, never in a web form. A token typed into a web page lands in browser history and autofill, which is exactly where a bot token should not be.

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If Ace Up revokes your bot

A platform admin can mark a bot revoked — it stops immediately and no instance runs for it. You recover with /newtoken and a fresh token from BotFather.

Activation

What happens when a person approves your venue.