Getting started

This walks you from sign-up to a live community in a few minutes. The dashboard's setup checklist tracks the same steps live and always shows your next action — it's derived from your real setup, so it can't get out of sync.

1. Create your account

Go to app.citadel-hub.com and sign up with email or Discord.

2. Create your community

On first sign-in you'll name your community and pick a slug. The slug is your address on Citadel (and it's permanent, so choose carefully):

https://<your-slug>.sites.citadel-hub.com

Your community is the workspace everything else lives under — services, store, billing, and team.

3. Pick what you're launching

The checklist asks what you want: a website, a Discord bot, a player store, or any combination. Your choice tailors the remaining steps.

4. Connect your game server (bot & store only)

Perks and bot commands reach your server through a relay connection — CFTools or LB Core, both self-serve from the dashboard. The checklist shows live verification: it flips from "key issued — waiting for your server" to "handshake received" the moment your server first checks in.

5. Set it up

• Website / bot — create the service and configure it (see Community website and Discord bot).
• Store — create perks, or apply a setup template for a one-click starting catalog.

6. Go live

• Website / bot — start a 14-day free trial (no card) or subscribe.
• Store — connect your Stripe; your storefront can take payments the moment Stripe enables charges.

The checklist disappears once everything required is live.

Tip: a service only goes live when it has an active subscription or trial. Until then it shows as pending.