Discord temporary voice channels that run themselves.

Voice Channels is YourBot's join-to-create service. A member joins your lobby and gets a room of their own with a panel to run it, and the room deletes itself when the last person leaves. All of it runs on the Free plan.

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A room per group, gone when empty11 buttons, 15 commandsFree plan
15
commands under /voice
11
buttons on the owner's panel
0 to 99
people per room
25
permits and rejects remembered
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From lobby to gone

Nobody asks a moderator for a channel and nobody deletes one. A room exists while people are using it.

  1. Step 1 Join the lobby A member joins Click to Join. That is the whole request.
  2. Step 2 A room appears The bot creates a room from your name template, makes the member its owner and moves them in.
  3. Step 3 The panel arrives The control panel lands in their DMs, and in the room's own chat too if you switch that on. Every button is also a /voice command.
  4. Step 4 It goes when empty When the last person leaves, the room is deleted. The bot looks again 1.5 seconds later, so a lagging member list cannot keep an empty room alive.
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The owner runs the room

The member who made the room owns it. They get Discord's own channel permissions on it and a panel of buttons that does the careful work for them.

LockUnlock

Stops new joins. Unlock puts back exactly what lock changed, and neither ever touches the owner or the bot.

HideShow

Takes the room off the channel list for anyone not permitted.

Limit

Sets how many people fit, from 0 for no limit up to 99.

Rename

Up to 90 characters. Discord allows two renames per room every ten minutes, so a third is refused with the time left.

Permit

Lets a member or role in even while the room is locked or hidden. Remembered for the owner's next rooms.

Reject

Keeps a member or role out and disconnects them if they are inside. Also remembered.

Kick

Removes one person from the room. Nobody can kick the owner.

TransferClaim

Hands the room to someone inside it, or takes over a room whose owner has left.

Undo permitUndo reject

Forgets one entry and takes its effect off the room.

/voice info shows the panel privately to anyone whose DMs are closed, and /voice prefs saves how a member's own rooms start: name, limit, locked or hidden.

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A lobby for every group size

Run one lobby or several. Each can have its own short name, room name, people limit, sound quality, category and start state, so a Duo lobby sits next to a Squad lobby.

Click to Join
Name template
🎧 {display_name}
A room becomes
🎧 mira
User limit
No limit
Rooms start
Open
Duo
Name template
Duo {count}
A room becomes
Duo 2
User limit
2
Rooms start
Open
Squad
Name template
{activity} · {display_name}
A room becomes
Valorant · mira
User limit
5
Rooms start
Locked
What a template can use
{display_name}
The member's name in your server
{username}
Their Discord username
{count}
The room's number in its lobby
{activity}
The game they are playing, or their name when there is none
One room per member Rejoin the lobby while your room is open and you are moved back into it instead of getting a second one.
Personal defaults Members save their own name, limit and start state with /voice prefs, and it wins over the lobby default.
A full category has a way out Discord stops at 50 channels in a category. New rooms then go to a second category you pick, and managers get one notice a day.
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Who gets in, and who is in charge

Rooms follow your server's rules. The owner gets real permissions on their own room and nothing more, and staff always outrank owners.

Valorant · mira · Permissions
What a locked room looks like in Discord's own permission list.

Two permission models

New rooms copy the permissions of the category they are created in, or only the roles you pick can see and join them.

Staff outrank owners

An owner cannot kick or reject server staff or anyone ranked above them. Anyone with Manage Channels can use every control on any room.

The bot grants only what it holds

Every permission it writes is trimmed to its own, so a bot invited with less still creates rooms instead of failing.

The bot keeps its own way in

Every room gets the bot's own entry, and it is put back whenever a voice event finds it missing.

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Nothing left to tidy

Rooms are temporary. The bookkeeping behind them is not, so restarts, full categories and deleted lobbies do not leave a mess behind.

Deleted when empty Judged by who is actually connected, with a second look 1.5 seconds later. You can switch it off.
Restart-proof Owners, lock and hidden state and panels are stored. At startup and every 10 minutes the bot deletes rooms that emptied while it was away and forgets ones Discord no longer has.
Owner leaves, room carries on The first member still inside becomes the owner. Switch that off and the room waits for someone to claim it.
Lobbies rebuild themselves A lobby set to be made again comes back within 20 seconds of being deleted, and Make what is missing on the dashboard puts back a deleted lobby or category on the spot.
Adopts rooms you already have Bring in channels the bot does not manage yet lists the other voice channels in the room category, and the bot manages only the ones you tick.
A panel that never goes stale The panel is redrawn after every action, and a room deleted by hand has its panel retired.
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Rooms in a few minutes

One wizard does the Discord side, and it is safe to run again.

  1. Step 1 Add YourBot Sign in with Discord and add the bot to your server. The Free plan needs no card.
  2. Step 2 Run Voice Channels setup Set it up for me makes a Voice Channels category and a Click to Join lobby, or uses a category of that name you already have, and saves the defaults.
  3. Step 3 Shape the rooms Pick the room name, people limit and sound quality, add a Duo or Squad lobby and choose whether rooms start locked or hidden.
  4. Step 4 Let members in Anyone who joins the lobby gets a room. The dashboard shows every open room and who is in it, and lets managers rename, lock, hide, hand over or delete it.
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Free covers all of Voice Channels

Every setting on this page runs on the Free plan with nothing held back. Premium is billed per server and changes who your bot is and what else can run on it.

Free

No card
  • Voice Channels with every setting
  • The other nine core services
  • Run by the shared YourBot bot

Add the bot and run setup. Nothing to pay and no card to enter.

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Premium

Per server
  • Everything in Free
  • Your own custom bot, hosted by YourBot
  • Marketplace plugins and your Plugin Builder creations
  • 50 free Start Your Server designs
  • Monthly or yearly billing
  • More servers on one subscription

If Premium ends, the server goes back to the shared bot and the lobbies keep working.

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Questions

How do I get temporary voice channels in Discord?

Discord has no native option, so you add a bot. Add YourBot, switch on Voice Channels and run its setup: it creates a Voice Channels category and a Click to Join lobby, and anyone who joins the lobby gets a room of their own.

What is a join to create channel?

It is a designated lobby voice channel. Joining it triggers the bot to create a fresh voice channel and move you into it, so rooms exist only while someone is actually using them.

What happens to the channel when everyone leaves?

It is deleted. The bot looks again 1.5 seconds later because Discord's member list can lag, and at startup and every 10 minutes it clears rooms that emptied while it was away, so empty channels never pile up.

Can members rename or resize their own voice channel?

Yes. The member who creates a room owns it and gets Manage Channel, Move Members, Mute Members, Deafen Members and Priority Speaker on it, plus a panel with Lock, Hide, Limit, Rename, Permit, Reject, Kick, Transfer, Claim and two undo buttons. Discord allows two renames per room every ten minutes. Editing the room's permission list is off for owners unless a server manager turns it on, and the bot restores its own access if an owner locks it out.

Are there slash commands for temporary voice channels?

Yes. The /voice group covers lock, unlock, hide, show, limit, rename, permit, reject, unpermit, unreject, kick, transfer and claim, plus /voice info to see the panel privately and /voice prefs to save how your rooms start. Server managers can also rename, resize, lock, transfer or delete any room from the YourBot dashboard.

Where does the control panel appear?

In the owner's DMs. A setting also posts a copy in the room's own chat, and /voice info shows the panel privately to anyone whose DMs are closed.

What happens when the owner leaves?

The room passes to the first member still inside. Switch that off and the room waits until someone inside runs /voice claim.

Can I control who can see or join the rooms?

Yes, with two models. New rooms can inherit the permissions of the category they are created in, or you can switch to a role allow-list where everyone is denied by default and only the roles you choose can see and join.

What permissions does the bot need?

Where rooms are made: View Channels, Connect, Manage Channels, Manage Roles and Move Members. In each lobby: View Channels and Move Members. Without Manage Channels it cannot make rooms. Without Move Members nobody is moved into one. It never grants more than it holds itself.

Is the voice service free?

Yes. Voice Channels is one of the ten core services on the Free plan, including every setting, lobbies that come back when deleted, taking over channels you already have and managing each room from the dashboard. Premium adds your own custom bot and lets marketplace plugins and your Plugin Builder creations run on your server.

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Keep reading

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Rooms that open when people arrive and close when they leave.

Add YourBot, run Voice Channels setup and point members at Click to Join. Every room comes with an owner, a panel and a clean exit.

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Checked against the product on 2026-09-23