> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.coveapp.cc/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Set up your workspace

> Connect a Roblox group and a Discord server, choose what Cove tracks, and invite the bot.

Setting a workspace up is one pass through six steps. You do it once per
community, and everything chosen here can be changed later in Settings.

<Frame caption="Picking the Roblox group a new workspace is for.">
  <img src="https://cdn.coveapp.cc/docs/images/get-started/create-workspace.png" alt="Creating a workspace" />
</Frame>

## Before you start

| You need                        | Why                                         |
| ------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------- |
| A Roblox group you own          | Cove reads its ranks to work out who is who |
| A Discord server you administer | You need Manage Server to add the bot       |
| A linked Discord account        | Required before you can create a workspace  |

## Steps

<Steps>
  <Step title="Sign in with Roblox">
    Go to [coveapp.cc/join](https://coveapp.cc/join). Cove uses Roblox to prove
    who you are, so there is no password to make or forget.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Link your Discord account">
    Cove leans on Discord as heavily as it does Roblox, so this is required
    rather than optional — without it, most of the product has nothing to act
    on.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Coming from Hyra?">
    The first step offers to read your existing workspace and rebuild it here,
    so you don't set everything up twice. Skip it to start fresh; you can
    migrate later either way.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Pick your Roblox group">
    Its name and icon become the workspace's, so it looks like your community
    without you filling in a form. A group belongs to one workspace.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Connect your Discord server">
    The server Cove will work in. Like the group, a server belongs to one
    workspace.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Choose which ranks to track">
    Anybody holding a tracked rank joins the workspace automatically the first
    time they sign in to Cove. Usually your staff ranks rather than every
    member.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Pick a plan">
    Starter is free. Groups under 1,000 members get 10% off a paid plan
    automatically, and it stacks with paying yearly.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Invite the Cove bot">
    The workspace needs the bot in your server to do anything at all. If it
    isn't there, the workspace says so and gives you the invite.
  </Step>
</Steps>

<Tip>
  Set up [departments](/workspace/departments) before inviting your team. Give a
  department a Roblox rank and new staff arrive with the right permissions
  already, instead of being made co-owners so they can get their job done.
</Tip>

## What to do next

<CardGroup cols={2}>
  <Card title="Turn on verification" icon="shield-check" href="/verification/overview">
    Decide what a verified member gets in your server.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Add role binds" icon="link" href="/verification/role-binds">
    Map each Roblox rank to the Discord roles it earns.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Set up departments" icon="briefcase" href="/workspace/departments">
    Decide who can do what before your team arrives.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Track in-game activity" icon="chart-line" href="/game/activity">
    Install the loader script and set quotas per rank.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>

## If something isn't working

<AccordionGroup>
  <Accordion title="The workspace says the bot is missing">
    The bot has to be in the Discord server you connected. Use the invite the
    workspace shows you — it already points at the right server.
  </Accordion>

  <Accordion title="Discord stats show zero on a new workspace">
    Give it a few minutes. The bot notices a newly connected server on its next
    pass, and the dashboard picks the numbers up from there.
  </Accordion>

  <Accordion title="My group or server isn't in the list">
    Both have to belong to you, and neither can already be connected to another
    workspace. If a group looks wrongly claimed, tell us in Discord.
  </Accordion>

  <Accordion title="Roles aren't being handed out">
    Cove cannot manage the server owner, or anybody whose highest role sits
    above its own. Move the Cove role above the roles it needs to give.
  </Accordion>
</AccordionGroup>