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Community invites make it easy to bring people into your Discord server with automatic role assignment and controlled access. Whether you’re a server admin, community manager, or streamer, community invites let you decide who can accept an invite and what roles they’ll receive when they join. With community invites, you can automatically give members roles the moment they accept an invite — no manual role management needed. You can also create invites that only specific people can accept, giving you precise control over who enters your server.

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What Can Community Invites Do?

Community invites extend Discord’s standard invite system with two capabilities:

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Role Assignment

When someone accepts a community invite, Discord automatically assigns one or more roles to them. You can set this up directly in Discord’s UI or through the API. This is useful for:
  • Giving roles to supporters, beta testers, or players
  • Granting access to specific channels based on a user’s status or subscription
  • Automatically organizing new members without manual effort
Roles assigned through an invite persist even after the invite expires or is deleted. You’ll need to remove them manually via Discord’s interface or a bot.

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Targeted Invites

Want to create an invite that only specific people can accept? Targeted invites let you restrict access to a list of specific Discord users — only those users will be able to see and accept the invite. This is an API-only feature. This is useful for:
  • Exclusive invites for paying supporters
  • Controlled access for beta testers or event attendees
  • Preventing invite sharing for special achievements or roles

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Creating Role Invites in Discord

You can create role-assigning invites directly in Discord — no code required. This is perfect for server admins and community managers.

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Prerequisites

Before you begin, make sure you have:
  • A Discord server
  • User permissions for Create Instant Invite, Manage Server, and Manage Roles

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How to Create a Role Invite

  1. Open your Discord server and right-click the channel you want to create an invite for
  2. Select “Invite To Channel”
or
  1. Open your Discord server and click the server name
  2. Select “Invite To Server”
then
  1. Click “Edit invite link”
  2. Under “Roles (Optional)”, select one or more roles to auto-assign
  3. Configure other settings like expiration time and max uses
  4. Click “Generate a New Link”
  5. Share the invite link — anyone who accepts it will automatically receive the selected roles
Example of creating an invite that grants roles

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Important Notes

  • Users who accept the invite will receive the selected roles even if they’re already in your server
  • Roles persist after the invite expires or is deleted
  • You need Create Instant Invite and Manage Roles permissions to create role invites
  • You can only assign roles that are lower than your highest role

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For Developers

If you want to automate community invites in a bot or app — or use targeted invites — check out the developer tutorial.

Using Community Invites (Tutorial)

Step-by-step API integration for bots and apps, including targeted invites and role assignment via the API

Create Channel Invite

API reference for the create invite endpoint