Slack Connect: Manage channel invitation settings and permissions
Slack Connect allows members of your organization to work with people from external organizations in the same channel. Keep reading to learn more about the types of invitations your organization can send and the permissions they grant to external people working in your channels.
Invitation types and permissions
You can decide what type of invitation your members can send when they’d like to collaborate with external people in your organization’s channels. There are two invitation types you can manage: Permission only to post and Permission to post, invite, and more. The invitation types determine what permissions external people will have in the channels they're invited to.
Note: Once the invitation has been accepted, anyone with permission to send Slack Connect invitations can adjust the existing permissions for the external people.
Permissions by invitation type
| Permission only to post | Permission to post, invite, and more | |
| Send messages | ✓ | ✓ |
| ✓ | ✓ | |
| ✓ | ✓ | |
| ✓ | ✓ | |
|
Use their team’s shortcuts |
✓ | ✓ |
|
Add other people from organizations already in the channel |
✓ | |
| ✓ | ||
|
Change a channel name, topic, or description* |
✓ | ✓ |
|
Add a channel to multiple workspaces in their Enterprise Grid org |
✓ | ✓ |
| See an archived copy of a channel if their organization is removed | ✓ | |
| Set a retention policy* | ✓ |
*Note: These changes will only apply to the workspace where they were made, and not for other organizations in the channel.
Manage invitation settings and permissions
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 Workspace settings.
- Click the Permissions tab.
- Next to Slack Connect Channels, click Expand.
- Below Inviting people from outside [your organization], click the toggles off or on. If on, decide who from your organization can send each invitation type.
- Click Save.
Manage who can send invitations
- 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, then select Settings.
- Next to Channels, click Edit.
- Below Inviting people from outside [your organization], click the toggles off or on. If on, decide who from your organization can send each invitation type.
- Click Save.
Manage who external people can invite to channels
Org Owners and Admins can manage who external people can invite to channels if your Slack Connect channel allows for Permission to post, invite, and more.
- 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, then select Settings.
- Next to External people can invite, click Edit.
- Select who external people can send an invitation to.
- Click Save.
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Workspace Owners (Pro and Business+)
Org Owners and Org Admins (Enterprise Grid) - Available on paid plans
Slack Connect allows members of your organization to work with people from external organizations in the same channel. Keep reading to learn more about the types of invitations your organization can send and the permissions they grant to external people working in your channels.
Invitation types and permissions
You can decide what type of invitation your members can send when they’d like to collaborate with external people in your organization’s channels. There are two invitation types you can manage: Permission only to post and Permission to post, invite, and more. The invitation types determine what permissions external people will have in the channels they're invited to.
Note: Once the invitation has been accepted, anyone with permission to send Slack Connect invitations can adjust the existing permissions for the external people.
Permissions by invitation type
| Permission only to post | Permission to post, invite, and more | |
| Send messages | ✓ | ✓ |
| ✓ | ✓ | |
| ✓ | ✓ | |
| ✓ | ✓ | |
|
Use their team’s shortcuts |
✓ | ✓ |
|
Add other people from organizations already in the channel |
✓ | |
| ✓ | ||
|
Change a channel name, topic, or description* |
✓ | ✓ |
|
Add a channel to multiple workspaces in their Enterprise Grid org |
✓ | ✓ |
| See an archived copy of a channel if their organization is removed | ✓ | |
| Set a retention policy* | ✓ |
*Note: These changes will only apply to the workspace where they were made, and not for other organizations in the channel.
Manage invitation settings and permissions
Pro and Business+ plans
Enterprise Grid plan
- Click your workspace name in the sidebar.
- Hover over Tools & settings, then click Workspace settings.
- Click the Permissions tab.
- Next to Slack Connect Channels, click Expand.
- Below Inviting people from outside [your organization], click the toggles off or on. If on, decide who from your organization can send each invitation type.
- Click Save.
Manage who can send invitations
- Click your organization name in the sidebar.
- Hover over Tools & settings, then click Organization settings.
- Click Slack Connect in the left sidebar, then select Settings.
- Next to Channels, click Edit.
- Below Inviting people from outside [your organization], click the toggles off or on. If on, decide who from your organization can send each invitation type.
- Click Save.
Manage who external people can invite to channels
Org Owners and Admins can manage who external people can invite to channels if your Slack Connect channel allows for Permission to post, invite, and more.
- Click your organization name in the sidebar.
- Hover over Tools & settings, then click Organization settings.
- Click Slack Connect in the left sidebar, then select Settings.
- Next to External people can invite, click Edit.
- Select who external people can send an invitation to.
- Click Save.
-
Workspace Owners (Pro and Business+)
Org Owners and Org Admins (Enterprise Grid) - Available on paid plans