Welcome guide

Rallyra brings live trivia, games, and a points system your staff control to your Discord server. This guide takes you from "never heard of it" to your first event in about 15 minutes.

Before you start

• You need the Manage Server permission in the Discord server you want to set up.
• Have a staff role ready (or create one). People with this role approve point payouts and can change Rallyra's settings.
• Pick or create two channels: one private staff channel where payout requests land for review, and one public channel for Rallyra announcements.

Step 1: Add Rallyra to your server

Go to Add to Discord, press the button, and pick your server.

Rallyra asks for five permissions and nothing more: View Channels, Send Messages, Embed Links, Read Message History, and Use Application Commands. It never asks for Administrator. The Add to Discord page explains why each one is needed.

Step 2: Sign in to the dashboard

Open the dashboard and sign in with Discord. You will see every server where you have Manage Server and Rallyra is installed. Pick your server.

The overview page shows a setup checklist. It reads your server's real state, so items tick themselves off as you finish them.

Step 3: Finish the required setup

Open Setup in the dashboard sidebar and set these three things. Rallyra will not post anything that needs staff until they are done.

1. Staff role. Members with this role can approve or reject payouts and edit the configuration.
2. Payout review channel. Every request to give or take points posts here as a card with Approve and Reject buttons. Keep it staff-only.
3. Announcement channel. Setup confirmations and module status messages post here.

Optional, but useful:

• Host role. Lets people run Trivia events without full staff access.
• Trivia channel and Trivia results channel. Where questions and final results post. Results fall back to the Trivia channel if you leave it empty.
• Staff log channel. A private log of who changed which setting, and when.

The Server health section on the Setup page checks that Rallyra can actually see and post in each channel. If something is red, it tells you which permission is missing.

You can also check progress from Discord at any time with /setup status.

Step 4: Turn on what you want to use

• Modules (dashboard sidebar): switch on Trivia to host live events, Tickets for private support tickets, and Verification for a Verify button that keeps out alt accounts.
• Giveaways need no switch: staff start one with /giveaway start. See Giveaways.
• Activities (dashboard sidebar): switch on games such as Glyph (a daily word puzzle) and Sudoku. Beta games are labelled Beta.

Nothing is on until you switch it on, and you can switch anything off again without losing data.

Step 5: Run a practice Trivia event

1. On the Setup page, turn on Test mode. Test events run exactly like real ones, but no points are paid out.
2. Go to Trivia, then Question bank, and upload a CSV of questions. You get a preview before anything is saved.
3. In your Trivia channel in Discord, run /trivia start. With no options it opens a setup panel where you pick the question set and how many questions to ask.
4. Drive the event from the host panel buttons: next question, preview, reveal, lock or unlock chat, end, and cancel. Each question has a countdown timer that closes it automatically.
5. When you end the event, Rallyra posts the results and updates the leaderboard.
6. Turn test mode off when you are ready for real events.

In a real event, ending it creates one payout request for everyone's points. It posts to your payout review channel, and nobody gets points until a staff member presses Approve.

Step 6: Let your members in

Members do not need to set anything up. They can:

• Answer Trivia questions with the buttons on each question.
• Play Glyph and Sudoku with /activity play. Rallyra sends them a private link to play in their browser.
• Check their points with /balance.
• See the rankings with /trivia leaderboard.

How points work, in one paragraph

Points are your server's own reward currency. Members earn them from events, and every change is recorded in a permanent history that cannot be edited. Nothing is ever paid out automatically: every payout is a request that a staff member approves in Discord. Points have no cash value, are not money, and a Rallyra subscription never buys points. You decide what points mean in your community, for example by listing rewards in the Reward Catalog.

Where to go next

• FAQ for quick answers.
• Pricing for plans, and Plans and billing for upgrading and covering several servers.
• Support if you are stuck. The fastest way to reach a person is the Rallyra Discord.