This guide builds a simple automation: DM every new member who joins your Discord server. It takes about five minutes.
Start from a template or scratch
The quickest path is the Discord Welcome Message template — click Use this template and it opens in the editor pre-wired. To learn the mechanics, follow along from scratch instead.
Add a trigger
- Open the editor and click Add a node.
- Choose the Discord — Member trigger. It has three output ports — Member Joined, Member Left and Role Assigned — and you pick the event by connecting from the one you want, rather than in a config field.
- Pick the server (guild) it should watch.
The trigger is the entry point — everything flows out of it.
Add an action
- Add a Discord action node and set its operation to Send Direct Message.
- Connect the trigger's Member Joined output port to the action's input.
- In the message field, write your greeting. Use variables to personalise it:
Welcome to the server, {{trigger_1.username}}! 👋
Variables like {{trigger_1.username}} pull live data from earlier nodes — autocomplete suggests what's available.
Activate it
Toggle the workflow live. From now on it runs automatically whenever the trigger fires. Watch executions stream in under Analytics.
Next: learn the full set of triggers and actions.