Help & guides
Everything you need to set up asyncmate for your team, from the first check-in to hours tracking and billing.
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Getting started
Install asyncmate in Slack, create your first check-in and get your first digest, in about ten minutes.
Slack permissions, explained
Every scope on the install screen, why it exists and what asyncmate cannot see.
Getting approved by your Slack admin
How Slack app approval works, a request message to paste and answers for your admin.
Guides
What is an async standup?
The daily check-in in writing: how it works, why teams switch and where it fails.
How to run daily standups in Slack
Three ways to run one, and the settings that decide whether it survives week two.
Daily standup questions
The classic three, three tests for a good question, and five copy-paste sets by team and cadence.
Standups across time zones
Follow-the-sun delivery, digest timing, response windows and handoffs for a team spread over ten hours.
Create a standup check-in
Questions, schedule, participants and where the digest goes.
Why hours logging beats timesheets
The forgotten-timesheet problem, and how an end-of-day prompt in asyncmate fixes it.
Log hours
Set up the hours logger, assign projects and review reports.
Polls & surveys
Quick polls in Slack and anonymous surveys with protected results.
Send check-ins to Notion
Connect Notion once and every closed check-in run becomes a page in a database asyncmate creates.
Troubleshooting
Bot not posting, missing DMs, channel access and timezone issues.