Setting up Civora on your Discord server
This guide walks you from creating your Civora account to confirming the bot is moderating your server. Three to five minutes total — the slowest part is choosing which template to start with.
Before you start#
You need two things before Civora can join your server:
- Admin access on the Discord server. Specifically, the Manage Server permission. If someone else owns the server, ask them to grant you that permission temporarily, or have them follow this guide themselves.
- A Civora account. Sign in via Discord OAuth on the Civora sign-in page using the email address you want for billing and notifications. The Free tier doesn't require a card.
Sign in to Civora
Open the Civora sign-in page and choose Sign in with Discord. Discord shows you the permissions Civora requests on the user side (read your profile, see which servers you can manage). Authorize.
You'll land on the dashboard's Servers page. This page lists the Discord servers where you have the Manage Server permission.
Add the bot to your server
From the Servers page, start the bot install flow for the server you want to add Civora to. You'll be sent to Discord's official bot-install screen:
- Pick the server you want to add Civora to. Only servers where you have Manage Server show up here.
- Review the bot permissions Discord lists. The defaults are what Civora needs (read messages, manage messages, moderate members) — don't uncheck them, or moderation features will silently fail.
- Confirm. You'll land back on the Civora dashboard and the server appears in your list.
Verify the bot is running
Open the server card from the Servers page, then look at the Overview tab — it shows the bot's status, the active template, and a summary of current rules.
On the Discord side, the Civora bot should appear online in your server's member list. If the bot is offline 30 seconds after install, see the bot-offline troubleshooting guide.
Pick a template (or keep the default)
On first install Civora applies a default template. To change it, open the server from Servers, switch to the Moderation tab, and use the template selector. The five templates are Gaming, Paid community, Brand, Study, and NSFW allowed.
Read Choosing the right template for a breakdown of each one.
What's next#
- Templates — what each template assumes and when to switch.
- Severity tuning — fine-grained per-category control (Pro and Business tiers).
- Reviewing flagged messages — your workflow when Civora sends a message to the review queue.
If you get stuck, open a ticket from Support in the dashboard sidebar. We read every message.