Adding Arclo

You need Manage Server in the server you are adding Arclo to. Discord only shows servers you hold that permission in on the invite screen.

1Invite the bot

1. 1

   Open the invite link

   Use the Add to Discord button anywhere on this site, or go straight to the invite page.

2. 2

   Pick the server

   Choose it from the dropdown. If the server is not listed, you do not have Manage Server there — ask an admin to add Arclo, or to give you the permission.

3. 3

   Leave the permissions ticked

   The invite asks for Administrator and, alongside it, every individual permission Arclo uses. That is deliberate: Administrator means nothing can fail later over a box somebody forgot, and the individual grants mean you can untick Administrator — on this screen, or on Arclo's role at any point afterwards — and still have a fully working bot rather than one that does nothing. If you would rather grant less than that, trim Arclo's role in Server Settings → Roles after authorising: Permissions Arclo needs lists exactly what each system uses and what stops working without it.

4. 4

   Authorise

   Arclo joins immediately and appears in your member list. It does nothing else until you switch a system on.

2Move Arclo's role up

This is the single most common cause of “the bot is not working”, and it takes ten seconds to fix.

Discord will not let any bot act on a member whose highest role is above the bot's own. Arclo cannot ban, mute, kick, or add a role to somebody who outranks it, and it cannot hand out a role that sits above its own role in the list.

1. 1

   Open Server Settings → Roles

   Find the role Discord created when Arclo joined — it is called Arclo and is managed by the integration.

2. 2

   Drag it above the roles it has to manage

   As a rule: above every member and moderator role, below your owner/admin roles. It does not need to be at the very top.

3Open the dashboard

1. 1

   Log in with Discord

   Click Log in in the top-right of this site. Arclo asks Discord for your identity and your server list, nothing else.

2. 2

   Pick your server

   The picker lists every server you own or hold Administrator in, plus any where you were given dashboard access explicitly — a Bot Master role or a per-page grant. Manage Server on its own is not enough. Servers without Arclo show an Add Arclo button instead of Manage.

4Check it is alive

Type /about in any channel Arclo can see. You should get a reply with the bot's version, uptime and links. If the command does not appear in the slash menu at all, Discord has not finished syncing the command list — give it a minute, then reload Discord with Ctrl + R.

Removing Arclo

Kick the bot like any member. Its commands disappear from your server within a minute or two.