Sending alerts to Discord

1. Create the webhook in Discord

A webhook is a special web address that lets Outpost post messages into one channel on your Discord server. There is no bot to invite and nothing to install. You need to be able to manage the channel; on your own server you can, and on someone else's server you need the Manage Webhooks permission.

1. Open the channel's settings

   On a computer, hover over the channel name in the left-hand list and click the gear icon that appears, or right-click the channel and choose Edit Channel. On the phone app, press and hold the channel name, then open its settings.

2. Go to Integrations, then Webhooks

   In the settings menu on the left, choose Integrations. Press Webhooks, then New Webhook. Discord creates one with a random name.

3. Name it and check the channel

   Click the new webhook to expand it. Change the name to something you will recognise later, such as “Outpost Alerts”. Check that the channel shown is the one you want alerts in. Press Save Changes if Discord shows the button.

4. Copy the URL

   Press Copy Webhook URL. The address looks like https://discord.com/api/webhooks/1234567890123456789/AbCdEf…. That is all Outpost needs.

If you cannot find Integrations on the phone app, use Discord on a computer or in a web browser for this step. It takes a minute and you only do it once per channel.

2. Paste it into Outpost

Open the dashboard and go to Settings, then Alerts.

1. Tick Enable Discord webhooks.
2. Paste the URL into Discord URL. The field only accepts a real Discord webhook address. If it is refused, check that the paste starts with https://discord.com/api/webhooks/ and has no spaces at the ends.
3. Press Send test webhook. Within a few seconds a sample listing appears in the channel. If it does not, see section 7.
4. Press Save alerts.

From now on, every alert that reaches the dashboard is also posted in that channel. Alerts for listings that were already up when a watchlist started (the Before your outpost started section) are not posted; only live alerts are.

3. What arrives in the channel

Each alert is one message. The standard message is short:

The Open in Outpost button under the message opens the listing in your dashboard, where Open in FB, Track, Bought and Ignore are one tap away.

If you tick Send the full listing in Discord alerts, the message carries the seller's full description as well, and gets a second button that opens the Facebook listing directly:

Choose the full listing if you want to read the description and message the seller straight from Discord. Leave it off if you prefer a short feed and would rather open the dashboard to decide.

The seller's words are posted as plain text, so nothing in a listing title can change how the message looks or hide part of it.

4. One channel per watchlist

The webhook in Settings is your main channel, and every watchlist posts there unless you tell it otherwise. To send one watchlist to its own channel:

1. Create a webhook on that channel in Discord, as in step 1, and copy its URL.
2. In Outpost, open the Watchlists tab and press Edit on the watchlist.
3. Scroll to Discord channel at the bottom of the editor and paste the URL into Webhook URL.
4. Press Send test to check it, then Save Watchlist.

A watchlist with its own channel posts there and not to the main channel. The watchlist card shows “own Discord channel” so you can see which ones are set up this way. To go back to the main channel, open the watchlist and clear the field.

Example layout. A reseller with three lines of stock might have a server with #gpus, #phones and #furniture, each fed by its own watchlists, and a #everything-else channel as the main webhook for the rest. A buyer looking for one thing just uses one channel.

5. Make Discord ping your phone

This is the step most people miss. Messages posted by a webhook do not mention anyone, so Discord treats them like ordinary chat and, by default, does not send a notification for them. You will see the alert when you open Discord, but your phone will not buzz.

To fix that, on each alert channel:

1. Open the channel. On a computer, right-click its name; on the phone, press and hold it.
2. Choose Notification Settings.
3. Select All Messages.

Then check three things that can still silence it:

• The server is not muted. Right-click or press and hold the server icon and check Mute Server is off.
• The Discord app is allowed to send notifications on your phone, in the phone's own settings.
• On an iPhone, a Focus mode or Do Not Disturb is not blocking Discord.

If the main channel gets busy, mute it and keep All Messages on only the per-watchlist channels you care about.

6. Quiet hours and the sound

Quiet hours, in Settings, then Alerts, pause searching between the two times you set, in your time zone. Discord posts pause with it. Listings posted during quiet hours are not sent when quiet hours end, because by then they are hours old. Only use quiet hours for times when you would never buy anyway.

The alert sound in the same settings panel is separate from Discord. It plays in the web browser while the dashboard tab is open. Discord has its own notification sounds, set in Discord.

7. When nothing arrives

8. Sharing with a team

Everyone in the channel sees each alert at the same moment, which makes a shared channel a good way to run a buying crew: one person watches, several people can message sellers. A few tips:

• Give each buyer their own channel by watchlist, so the person who covers furniture is not scrolling past graphics cards.
• Agree on a reaction, like a thumbs up, that means “I have messaged this one”, so two people do not chase the same seller.
• Keep the webhook URLs to yourself. Members of the channel do not need them; only the person who sets up Outpost does.

Common questions