Arclo documentation
Everything Arclo does, how to set it up, and what each setting actually changes. Written so you can configure any part of the bot without asking anyone.
Arclo is a Discord bot with 50+ systems behind one web dashboard. Moderation, security, levels, tickets, giveaways, social alerts, logging. All of it configured in a browser, with a live preview of anything Arclo is going to post, and all of it running against the same server settings the bot reads.
This documentation covers every one of those systems: what it does, how to switch it on, what each setting means, which commands come with it, and the behavior that is easy to get wrong. Start with the four pages below, or use the search box at the top of the sidebar.
The invite, the permissions it asks for, and what to check once it has joined.
A short setup path: logs, a mod team, a welcome, a gate, a support channel, levels and invite tracking.
How the sidebar, the system pages and the save behavior work.
Every command Arclo registers, 263 operations, in one searchable table.
How this documentation is organized
The sidebar follows the dashboard's own navigation. If you know where a system sits in the dashboard, its page is in the same place here.
- Getting started: adding Arclo, the dashboard and how it saves, who is allowed to change settings, the permissions Arclo uses, and what to do when something does not work.
- Core concepts: the handful of things that behave identically in every system: the message editor, placeholders, banners, how commands are configured, punishments, and durations and time zones. Reading these once saves reading them thirty times.
- General through Social Alerts: one page per system, in the dashboard's own groups and order.
- Reference: flat lookups: every command, every placeholder, every log event, every limit.
Every system page has the same shape
What it does → How to set it up → Settings reference → Commands → Things to know. If you only want the setting you came for, jump to the section from the On this page rail on the right.
Two rules worth knowing up front
Almost nothing is on by default
Adding Arclo does not start moderating, leveling or logging anything. Each system has its own switch and stays off until you turn it on, so a bot you added to try one feature cannot surprise you with another. The three without a switch (Logging, Emojis and Arclo's own information commands such as
/help) stay quiet until you use them: Logging posts nothing until you give it a channel.The dashboard is the source of truth
Every setting lives on the dashboard, and only the dashboard switches a system on. A few commands change one setting from Discord for convenience (
/logs channel,/automod toggle,/security whitelist add,/form toggle), but they write the same records the dashboard edits, so what the dashboard shows is always what the bot does. Every change takes effect within seconds, without a restart.
Getting help
- In Discord:
/helpopens Arclo's guide with a menu of every system,/help <system>lists one system's commands and says whether it is on in your server,/help <command>explains a single command, and/info docs <query>searches this documentation. See Help. - Support Server: join here and ask. Bring the server id and what you expected to happen.
- Email: support@arclo.gg for help with the bot; contact@arclo.gg for legal, privacy and business.
Still stuck? Ask in the support server: somebody there has almost certainly configured this before.