# Getting started

> Everything you need to configure a working ticket system on a new Discord server.

## Articles

- [Create your first bot](https://ticketcord.com/help/getting-started/create-bot.md): TicketCord runs your own Discord application - your bot’s name, avatar, and handle stay yours. Here’s how to make one and hand the token over safely.
- [Invite the bot to your server](https://ticketcord.com/help/getting-started/invite-bot.md): The bot has to be invited from inside the TicketCord dashboard - that’s how we know it landed and finish the setup. Here’s what to click and why this path matters.
- [Set up your first ticket category](https://ticketcord.com/help/getting-started/first-category.md): In TicketCord, a “category” is a Discord channel category, the collapsible heading in your server sidebar. The quick path is Create them for me in the setup form; the manual path is below it.
- [Create a ticket panel](https://ticketcord.com/help/getting-started/ticket-panel.md): A panel is the embed that customers click to open a ticket. Style it, add buttons or a dropdown, optionally attach a modal - then post it to a channel.
- [Assign staff roles](https://ticketcord.com/help/getting-started/staff-roles.md): Decide which Discord roles can see tickets, which can use the dashboard inbox, and which can change settings. Three independent levers.

## Machine-readable resources

- [Canonical HTML](https://ticketcord.com/help/getting-started)
- [TicketCord llms.txt](https://ticketcord.com/llms.txt)
- [AI page index](https://ticketcord.com/api/ai/pages)