Settings hub & configuration
Once Server Assistant is set up, /settings is your control panel, a single
hub in four sections:
- Settings: branding, quick presets, behaviour, role tiers, AI config, white-label, snippets, custom commands and FAQ.
- Members: new members, verification, onboarding and role panels.
- Notifications: event role-pings and alert toggles.
- Security: AutoMod, anti-nuke, scam images, the channel allowlist, privacy and backups.
Many of these tools also have their own slash command (AutoMod, AI config,
onboarding, privacy, backups, white-label, snippets, custom commands, FAQ, role
panels). The /settings section is just another door to the same tool: the
commands still work as before, with the same Premium and permission requirements.
This page covers the Settings hub and the standalone commands alongside it:
/autopilot, /privacy, /onboarding, /snippets, /timezone and /schedule.
Who can configure: the server owner or an admin role.
/timezoneis the exception, anyone can set their own timezone.
The /settings hub
Open the settings hub. No arguments; everything is done with buttons and dropdowns.
| Argument | Type | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| No arguments, the hub is fully interactive. | ||
Each button opens that section's own panel of tools (contents listed above). The tools shown below appear under whichever section fits them.
Step through every tab
Use Next › and ‹ Back to walk each tab, including the modal forms some open.
Branding. Pick the embed colour from the dropdown (Blue, Red, Green, Gold, Discord Blurple and more), or Custom hex colour for any hex like #5865F2. Set bot nickname changes the bot's display name in your server; Default timezone sets the server-wide timezone for digests and time displays.
The colour form. Paste any hex value, with or without the leading # (or in 0x form). The sibling buttons open similar one-field forms: a bot nickname (up to 32 characters; blank to reset) and a default timezone (an IANA name like Australia/Sydney).
Quick Presets. Four dropdowns, each setting a whole bundle in one tap: AutoMod preset (Off, Scams only, Scams + slurs, or Strict), punishment ladder (Gentle, Standard or Strict), onboarding template (Friendly, Gaming, Professional, Minimal or Custom), and anti-raid sensitivity (Off, Normal, or Strict). These are the presets the setup wizard applies from your community type, handy for changing your whole posture at once.
Behavior. Controls how much the bot logs (all actions, dangerous-only, or errors-only) and which day the weekly digest lands. The toggles cover the weekly digest, mentions outside your staff chat, self-checks (Health Insurance), the advisory PREMIUM Threat Score display, dev-update notes, and the weekly mod-team recap. Approval timeout sets how long (30 to 300 seconds) a dangerous-action approval stays open.
New Members. Choose a role to grant automatically on join, and the emoji the bot reacts with to welcome them. Set welcome emoji accepts a standard emoji, a :shortcode:, or a custom <:name:id> emoji. The Clear buttons reset each setting.
Verification. New members land at Reception, an in-server welcome desk with a banner, greeting and a Verify me button that opens a quick are-you-human check (a wrong answer just retries, never bans). Pick the role handed out on success, then choose who gets held: Off (no gate), Intelligent (holds only risk-scored joins for staff to Approve / Kick / Ban) or On (everyone verifies). You must choose a role before the gate can switch on. If your server's Discord Onboarding could hand out that role on its own (which would let members skip the gate), setup offers to fix it right there, either removing the role from Onboarding for you or creating a fresh verified role Onboarding does not touch. Every server gets a banner, created once automatically from the bot's read of your community, plus the greeting you word yourself. On PREMIUM, Reception desk adds a custom banner image of your own, a custom receptionist name and persona, and a concierge that moves a member who reaches out into a private ticket where SAi helps one-to-one.
Channel Allowlist. By default the bot works everywhere it can see. Add channels here to restrict it to just those, or Clear allowlist (allow all) to reset. Useful for confining commands to a couple of staff channels.
Role Tiers. Maps your Discord roles to what they can do. Add custom tier picks a role and a template: Owner (full access), Admin (most actions) or Moderator (the core mod toolkit). Add co-owner (owner-only) grants full owner-level access. The dropdown removes a tier. The server owner always has full access regardless.
Notifications. Toggles celebratory milestone cards, product announcements and service notices, and native-action alerts (logging when staff moderate directly in Discord). Instant alerts → opens the role-ping screen. (Pulse now lives in the web portal, see the note below.)
Instant alerts. Choose which roles get an immediate ping for each urgent event: an anti-raid trigger, a dangerous-action approval request, and an AutoMod escalation (only timeouts, kicks and bans). Leave any empty for no ping.
Pulse has moved. The server-health digest no longer posts to a Discord channel on a schedule set here. Pulse is now always on in the web portal, and each staff member can have it DM’d on their own cadence (Off, Weekly or Monthly), set from the portal. Still counts-only: no message content is stored.
/autopilot
An alias for /setup that opens the same wizard with every step pre-filled from your detected channels and roles. Review, adjust, finish. Owner or Manage Server admin.
| Argument | Type | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| No arguments, the pre-filled wizard opens; nothing saves until you finish. | ||
/autopilot opens the same pre-filled /setup wizard, with your channels, roles and staff detected and filled in. If
something can’t be detected, the bot flags it (for example “none detected,
recommend creating a private #staff channel”) so you know what to create. Every
step is editable and nothing saves until you finish, so /autopilot and
/setup land in the same place.
/privacy
Control what the bot is allowed to read. Every reading feature is a toggle, turn off anything you don't want.
| Argument | Type | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| No arguments, toggle each feature on or off. | ||
Each toggle controls one reading feature: natural-language commands in your
staff chat (like warn @user 30min), the right-click Message Report menu,
Pulse (counts only, no message content is stored), self-trained AutoMod
(learns from staff deletions), and the bot’s Health Insurance self-checks.
Turn off anything, any time.
/onboarding
Set up the welcome DM new members receive when they join. Toggle it on, edit the text, and send yourself a test.
| Argument | Type | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| No arguments, manage from the panel. | ||
Edit message opens a text box (up to 2000 characters) where you write your
greeting, dropping in placeholders such as [servername], [usermention],
[user], [membercount], [owner] and [usercreatedat]. Test (DM me)
sends a live preview to you.
/snippets
Save canned responses your staff can post in a tap, FAQs, role guides, rule reminders. Add, view and remove them here.
| Argument | Type | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| No arguments, manage from the panel. | ||
Add snippet opens a short form: a name (no spaces, like welcome or
faq-roles) and the text (up to 2000 characters, with the same placeholders
as onboarding). The dropdown removes any you no longer need.
/timezone
Set your own personal timezone so time-based commands and displays read correctly for you. Anyone can use this, it only affects you.
| Argument | Type | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| No arguments, pick from the list or enter a custom name. | ||
Choose from the popular list (UTC, Sydney, London, New York, Tokyo and more), or
hit Custom (type IANA name) to enter any IANA timezone such as
Australia/Brisbane, or an abbreviation like PST.
/schedule
Schedule a reminder or task to fire later, in plain language like “in 30 min” or “at 9am”. View and cancel pending tasks here too.
| Argument | Type | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| No arguments, create from the panel. | ||
Create new asks two things: when (in plain language, in 30 min,
in 2 hours, at 9am, at 14:00) and what should happen (up to 500
characters). Times use the timezone you set with /timezone. The dropdown lists
your pending tasks so you can cancel any of them.
See also
- The
/setupwizard: first-time setup, screen by screen - AutoMod: the full auto-moderation dashboard
- Wiki home: every command and flow