Activating premium on a server
Buying a subscription gives you slots. Activating spends one of them on a server. Until you activate, the server is still a free server.
The two ways
From Discord. In the server you want to upgrade, run:
/premium activate
The bot answers Premium (Gold) activated on this server! with your own plan
name. To undo it later, /premium remove in the same server.
From the dashboard. Open that server's dashboard and hover any card
showing a lock, for example Smart Bot Routing on the Music page or Bot
Profile in the sidebar. The overlay has an Activate Premium button when your current plan already covers that card, an Upgrade to
Both do exactly the same thing, and the effect is immediate. Right after a purchase, give the subscription itself up to a minute to register before you activate.
Who can do it
Anyone holding an active subscription with a free slot. You do not need Manage Server, and you do not need to be the server owner: you are spending your own slot, not the server's.
Two things that trip people up:
- It is the Discord account you are using that matters, not the server. If you subscribed with one account and run the command from another, the bot says you have no plan.
- The person who activates keeps control of the activation. Nothing removes it when they leave the server, and nobody else can remove it for them.
Checking it worked
The server appears under Your Premium Servers on your Premium page in the dashboard (switch the top selector to your account), with the date you activated it. The locked cards on that server's dashboard unlock at the same time.
When it refuses
| What you see | What it means |
|---|---|
| You do not have a premium server plan | the account you are signed in as has no active subscription |
| You are restricted to 2/2 premium server | every slot is spent; remove one, or move up a plan |
| This server is already premium | an activation already exists here, possibly someone else's |
| This server is not premium | on /premium remove, there is nothing to remove |
| The premium has not been activated by you | someone else activated this server; the reply names them |
The dashboard shows the same three refusals as toasts: You don't have an active premium subscription, You've reached your premium server limit, and This server already has premium active.
Moving it somewhere else
There is no move button, and there does not need to be one. Remove the activation from the old server, then activate on the new one. The slot is free again the moment you remove it, so the two steps take seconds.
Removing is covered, along with everything else that changes a subscription, in changing and cancelling.
