Quick Start
Create your account, connect your community, and sell your first paid plan.
Prerequisites
- A Discord, Fluxer, Telegram, or Stoat community, or nothing yet: you can create a community first and attach platforms later
- A Stripe account, or permission to create one during setup
- For Discord: a role that Arcalotl can grant to subscribers, with Arcalotl's bot role placed above it in Discord's role list
Step 1: Create your account
Sign in to the dashboard with Discord, Google, Fluxer, or Telegram. Your account is not tied to any one platform; you can link more sign-in identities later from the Account page.
Step 2: Connect your community
The dashboard's Connect a platform page lists every option:
- Discord: pick a server you manage, add the bot, and press Connect server. You land on your community's dashboard immediately; Stripe can wait.
- Fluxer: add the bot, run
/arcalotl setup, then enter the one-time claim code in the dashboard. To connect another server to an existing community, generate a setup code in Settings and run/arcalotl setup YOUR-CODE. - Telegram: add @ArcalotlBot to the group or
channel and promote it to administrator, then send
/setupin the bot's private chat and pick the chat. To connect a chat to an existing community, generate a setup code in Settings and send/setup YOUR-CODEinstead. - Stoat: follow the Stoat setup guide and redeem the code with
!arcalotl setup. - Create a community: start without a chat platform (the path for Hytale servers), then attach platforms and game servers from Settings.
Prefer staying in Discord? Running /arcalotl setup in your server still
works and links you to the same setup.
Step 3: Connect Stripe
Open your community's Settings and press Connect Stripe. Sign in to a Stripe account you already have, or let Arcalotl set one up for you in your country without leaving the dashboard, and finish Stripe's onboarding steps. Until Stripe is connected the overview shows a payment-gateway reminder under Needs attention; everything else already works.
Money flows directly to your Stripe account via Stripe Connect. Arcalotl never holds your funds or stores card numbers.
Step 4: Create a plan
Create plans from the dashboard, where you can set free trial days and pick an entitlement that bundles everything the buyer receives. On Discord you can also use the plan-creation modal. On Fluxer, provide the fields in the typed command:
/arcalotl plan create role=ROLE_ID name="VIP" monthly=9.99 annual=99.99 currency=usdWhen the plan is saved, it is ready to sell immediately. See Plans for the full plan model and Fluxer Commands for Fluxer's command syntax.
Step 5: Members subscribe
Members run:
/subscribeThey choose a plan, pay on Arcalotl's checkout page, and receive the configured role once the subscription is confirmed.
Optional: configure a Community Channels subscribe channel so members can browse plans from a dedicated channel instead of running the command.
Fluxer commands are typed messages beginning with /. Fluxer does not
currently provide Arcalotl command autocomplete, and bot replies are not
ephemeral. Private replies are sent by DM.
Step 6: Test self-service
Use these commands with a test member before inviting paying members:
/subscribe: Browse available plans and start checkout./manage: View subscription status and open the member portal. On Fluxer, plan changes and reactivation happen in that browser portal./cancel: Start the cancellation flow and verify save offers.