> ## 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.

# Verify message

> A panel with a verify button, for the #verify channel most Discord servers already have.

Most servers have a `#verify` channel with a message and a button in it. Cove
posts that message for you, and the button does exactly what `/verify` does.

<Frame caption="The panel as posted, with the Verify with Cove button.">
  <img src="https://cdn.coveapp.cc/docs/images/verification/verify-message.png" alt="The verify message in Discord" />
</Frame>

## Building it

**Settings → Verification**, at the bottom of the page.

| Part           | Notes                                                         |
| -------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Title and body | Written for people arriving in your server for the first time |
| Banner image   | Across the top of the panel                                   |
| Thumbnail      | Beside the text                                               |
| Colour         | The accent down the side                                      |
| Channel        | Chosen when you press Send                                    |

Cove adds the **Verify with Cove** button itself. You don't place it and it
can't be removed — a verify panel without a working verify button is a picture.

## The attribution button

Customise the panel and Cove adds a second, disabled button reading:

> This message was issued by *YourServer*. Verification should go through
> coveapp.cc.

It isn't decoration. A panel restyled to look like something else is exactly
what somebody phishing your members would post, and this is how a member tells
the real one from a copy. The default panel doesn't carry it, because there is
nothing to distinguish it from.

## Sending and re-sending

Press **Send** and choose a channel. Editing the panel afterwards does not
rewrite the message already posted — send it again to publish the new version.
A message people have already read shouldn't change underneath them.

<Tip>
  Lock the channel so only Cove can post in it. A verify channel that anybody
  can post in is where somebody drops a convincing fake button.
</Tip>

## Permissions

| Permission          | What it allows                           |
| ------------------- | ---------------------------------------- |
| Change verification | Build the panel and send it to a channel |