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Setting up your server

The three-step wizard that configures and launches your server.

Your server is created by the setup wizard, not by your payment. Until you finish the wizard, every page under /app sends you back to it.

The wizard has three steps. Only the AI provider step can hold you up, and only if you bought AI credits.

Step 1: Channels

Optional. Turn on Telegram and paste a bot token to have your bot live the moment the server boots. The token comes from @BotFather on Telegram and looks like 123456789:ABCDefGH.... The wizard shows you how to get one as you go, and Channels has the same steps.

Select Skip to launch with no channel and add one later. Telegram, WhatsApp, Discord, Slack, and everything else in the catalog are available from the dashboard once your server is running.

Step 2: AI provider

What this step asks for depends on the AI billing you chose at checkout.

If you bought AI credits, a banner shows your monthly amount. Pick a provider and a model. You cannot skip this step, because your credits have to run through a model, and you are not asked for an API key.

If you use your own API key, pick a provider, pick a model, and paste your key. This step is optional: select Skip and configure it from the dashboard before your bot answers anyone.

Four providers are available: Moonshot AI, Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google Gemini. Moonshot is the one we recommend. See AI model for what each key looks like and where to get one.

Step 3: SSH

Optional. Paste one or more SSH public keys, one per line, to be able to reach the server from your own terminal. You can add them later, and the browser terminal works without any key at all. See SSH access.

Launching

Select Launch server. The dashboard takes over and shows the progress: Queued, Creating server, Configuring services, Verifying setup, Ready. This takes 2 to 5 minutes, and you can leave the page while it runs.

If provisioning fails, the dashboard shows a Server error card. Select Retry to start it again, or Contact us if it keeps failing. The Activity log shows which step ran last.

Once it's running

Three things are worth doing in your first session:

  1. Message your bot from the channel you connected. It replies once you approve the pairing code it sends back. See Approving pairing requests.
  2. Open your OpenClaw dashboard with the gateway token from your Rapidbot dashboard. Everything the bot does, from skills to conversation flows, is set up there.
  3. Add the rest of your channels from the Channels card if you skipped step 1, or want more than one.

If the bot stays quiet, Troubleshooting lists what to check.

Signing in

How to claim your purchase and sign in with a one-time email code.

Overview

A tour of every card on the Rapidbot dashboard.