Manage Slack Connect channels
Slack Connect lets you work with people from other companies in channels. Read on to learn how owners, admins, and members who have been granted permission can manage Slack Connect channels.
Ways to manage channels
- Approve or deny requests for channels
- Automatically approve requests for channels
- Revoke invitations for channels
- View channels you're working in with other organizations
- Stop working in channels with other organizations
Approve or deny requests for channels
Depending on workspace settings, each company may need to approve a request to work together in a channel. Anyone with permission can approve or deny requests using the steps below.
- From your desktop, click your workspace name in the top left.
- Select Settings & administration from the menu, then click Manage Slack Connect.
- Click the Requests tab on the left.
- Next to the channel name, select Approve or Deny.
An invitation will expire if it's not accepted and approved within 14 days. Expired invitations will display below any pending requests.
Automatically approve requests for channels
If you plan to continue working with an organization in multiple channels, you can turn on automatic approval to skip approving every request from that organization. Requests for channels may still need approval from the other organization, depending on that organization's settings.
Turn on automatic approval
Pro and Business+ plans
Enterprise Grid plan
- From your desktop, click your workspace name in the top left.
- Select Settings & administration from the menu, then click Manage Slack Connect.
- Select the Organizations tab on the left.
- Next to the organization you'd like to automatically approve, click the
three dots icon. - Select Approve automatically, then click Approve to confirm.
- From your desktop, click your workspace name in the top left.
- Select Settings & administration from the menu, then click Organization settings.
- Click Slack Connect in the left sidebar.
- Next to the organization you'd like to automatically approve, click the
three dots icon. - Select Approve automatically, then click Approve to confirm.
Turn off automatic approval
Pro and Business+ plans
Enterprise Grid plan
- From your desktop, click your workspace name in the top left.
- Select Settings & administration from the menu, then click Manage Slack Connect.
- Select the Organizations tab on the left.
- Next to the organization you’d like to turn off automatic approval for, click the three dots icon.
- Select Turn off automatic approvals, then click Turn off to confirm.
- From your desktop, click your workspace name in the top left.
- Select Settings & administration from the menu, then click Organization settings.
- Click Slack Connect in the left sidebar.
- Next to the organization you'd like to turn off automatic approval for, click the three dots icon.
- Select Turn off automatic approvals, then click Turn off to confirm.
Revoke invitations for channels
You can revoke any invitation sent by someone from your company before it’s been accepted.
- From your desktop, click your workspace name in the top left.
- Select Settings & administration from the menu, then click Manage Slack Connect.
- Click the Pending invitations tab on the left.
- Next to the channel name, click Revoke.
- Click Revoke to confirm.
Tip: To revoke all pending invitations for your workspace, click Revoke All in the top right.
View channels you're working in with other organizations
Pro and Business+ plans
Enterprise Grid plan
- From your desktop, click your workspace name in the top left.
- Select Settings & administration from the menu, then click Manage Slack Connect.
- Select the Organizations tab on the left.
- Next to an organization name, click the three dots icon.
- Select View shared channels.
Org level
Org Owners and Org Admins can see all channels with other organizations in their Enterprise Grid org:
- From your desktop, click your workspace name in the top left.
- Select Settings & administration from the menu, then click Organization settings.
- Click Slack Connect in the left sidebar.
Workspace level
Workspace Owners and Workspace Admins can see all channels with other organizations in workspaces they manage:
- From your desktop, click your workspace name in the top left.
- Select Settings & administration from the menu, then click Manage Slack Connect.
- Select the Organizations tab on the left.
- Next to an organization name, click the three dots icon.
- Select View shared channels.
Note: For private channels, you’ll only see the names of those you’re a member of.
Stop working in channels with other organizations
When you wrap up a project, your organization can leave the channel (or, if your organization owns the channel, you can remove the other company). To end all communication in Slack, you can disconnect from an organization you've been working with.
- Workspace Owners/Admins and members with permission (Pro and Business+), Org Owners/Admins and members with permission (Enterprise Grid)
- Available on paid plans