For server owners

Add Chipsy from the control panel’s Servers page, or with a standard Discord invite link. You need Manage Server on the server you are adding it to — that is Discord’s rule, not Chipsy’s.

The invite asks for Use Application Commands, which is what makes the slash commands appear. Beyond that, in any channel where you want tables, Chipsy needs to be able to view the channel, send messages and embed links. A table is a message it keeps redrawing; without those three it cannot deal. If Chipsy can speak somewhere when it joins, it introduces itself there.

Depending on how the instance is run, a new server may need to be approved before the commands work. If so, Chipsy says so when it joins, and the commands refuse politely until somebody who runs the instance approves it. There is nothing to do on your side.

Anyone in the server can open a table. That is the default, and for most servers it is the right one. /config sets three things that apply to everybody in your server, per game:

Where tables may be opened

By default, any channel. Switch to an allowlist and only the channels you enable will take a table.

How many tables at once

A ceiling. Past it, the next /blackjack is refused with an explanation rather than a shrug.

What stakes are allowed

A minimum-bet range. A table opened outside it is quietly adjusted to fit, and whoever opened it is told.

You can also turn a game off entirely for the server or for one channel, and set the pace a table plays at. At blackjack and hold’em you can additionally set the turn clock and whether rebuys are allowed; roulette has neither, because nobody is ever on the clock there and it has no rebuy.

Settings apply in layers: the instance’s defaults, then each player’s own preferences, then your server, then a channel, then the lobby a table was opened from. Server policy therefore sits above personal preference, not below it — and a game switched off at any of those levels stays off.

Two things are worth knowing. First, /config is visible to everyone — it refuses inside rather than hiding, so a curious member sees a polite no instead of wondering where it went. Second, being an administrator of your Discord server makes you an administrator of your server’s Chipsy settings, and nothing more. It gives you no standing over other servers or over the instance.

The panel is the browser side of Chipsy. The Servers page lists the servers you can add Chipsy to and the ones it is already in. Settings shows the overrides in force. The rest of the panel — dashboards, player records, access control, logs — belongs to whoever runs the instance, not to individual server owners, and is not shown to you unless you have been given it.