Discord Bot for Artists: Commissions, Showcase and Community

Two audiences, two spaces

Followers want to see, react and chat. Clients want a clear price, a clear process and a place to send a brief. Mixing them in one channel gets messy: a client asks for a quote under someone else's fan art. Split the server early and the bot has an easy job.

The commission side

Intake that asks the right things

A ticket panel named Request a commission opens a pop-up. Good questions for artists: what the piece is, usage (personal or commercial), references, deadline. Up to five fit in a pop-up, and any can be required, with (long) making a box multi-line. The answers are the first message in a private channel with you. Read more in the ticket forms doc.

If you offer different services, such as icons, full illustrations and emotes, make a panel for each and post them as one dropdown. Each panel can have its own form.

Price list and terms

Post prices with the embed builder and keep them at the bottom of the channel with a sticky message. Or put your offers in the catalog, which lists names, prices and stock. Stock works as a slot counter, but it does not decrease by itself outside Auto-Pay, so update it when you open and close. Terms go in their own text post. Write them yourself, because the bot does not draft legal terms.

Invoice and payment

/invoice create makes a branded invoice with your logo and colors, and you can take a deposit and a final payment as two invoices. See the reference. Auto-Pay shows a QR code for the method you set up, and you receive the money directly. Be careful with chargebacks on PayPal or similar if you deliver files digitally. Noxyr does not handle disputes.

Proof

The review bot turns happy clients into public ratings, and invoice reviews are marked as verified purchases.

The community side

• Auto reactions add emoji to every post in a showcase channel, so nothing sits at zero.
• Starboard collects the pieces that get enough stars into a best-of channel.
• Polls decide what you draw on stream or next month.
• Giveaways work for free sketches, with role or message requirements so entrants are real members.
• Reaction roles let followers choose "Art drops", "Process videos" or "Open for commissions" pings.
• Birthdays give small communities a friendly rhythm.

Showcase channels attract reposted and stolen art. Noxyr does not detect reposts. Use logs, report rules in the sticky message and ask moderators to check sources.

Suggested setup order

1. Channels: info and terms, price list, commission requests, showcase, general.
2. Invite Noxyr with this link.
3. Price list embed and sticky terms.
4. Commission ticket panel and form.
5. Invoice branding and a test invoice.
6. Reviews channel.
7. Showcase auto reactions and starboard.
8. Anti-spam and link filters for a safe public side.

Opening and closing commission slots

The hardest part of commissions is saying no. Decide your rhythm before you post a panel. A common approach is a fixed number of slots, a post that says "open" or "closed", and a ticket panel that you remove or edit when slots fill. With the catalog, set a stock number equal to your slots and a product marked unavailable when you close. People see the state at once, and you are not answering "are you open?" forty times a week.

Keep a fair deposit rule in the terms, and use two invoices, one at the start and one at delivery. Each invoice is a record in your sales reports, so at the end of the month you see what you actually made.

A quick checklist before you post the panel

• Have you written the terms: revisions, usage rights, refunds, and timeline?
• Does the form ask about commercial use up front?
• Is there a staff role on the panel (even if it is only you)?
• Did you open a test ticket from a second account?
• Is the reviews channel public and the price list pinned?

Handling difficult clients

Every artist meets the client who wants endless changes. Put the revision count in the terms and the form, and point to it in the ticket. If a person becomes abusive, close the ticket and use the ticket blacklist, which stops a user from opening new ones without touching anything outside the ticket system. Keep the transcript, because it is your record of what was agreed and said.

What Noxyr does not do for artists

• No file hosting or proof delivery beyond what Discord allows in a channel.
• No watermarking, image theft detection or copyright tools.
• No commission queue board. Use the stock counter, or pin a post you edit.
• No leveling or XP, and no automatic payment reminders.

Next steps

The commission server template has the channel map. If you run your art as a one-person business, freelancers overlaps heavily with this page. Both link to the tickets tutorial.