Getting approved by your Slack admin

Many workspaces require an admin to approve new apps before anyone can install them. Here is what to expect, the answers your admin will want, and a request message you can paste.

1How app approval works in Slack

If your workspace restricts installs, the Add to Slack step turns into a request. Slack asks you for an optional note, then notifies your admins through Slackbot. Admins review the request under Manage apps in the Slack admin dashboard. Once they approve, the install completes normally and nothing else changes for your team.

2A request message you can paste

Hi! I would like to add asyncmate to our Slack. It runs our daily standup as an async check-in: everyone answers a DM when they start their day and a digest lands in our channel, so we can drop the standup meeting. It cannot read channel messages, and every permission is documented at asyncmate.com/help/slack-permissions. The free plan covers our team and needs no credit card. I have sent the install request through Slack. Could you approve it?

3Answers for your admin

• What can it read? No channel messages. The bot reads only its own DM conversations, where people answer check-ins. Every permission is explained on the permissions page.
• Where is data stored? On servers in the EU. The bot token is encrypted at rest, and answers are stored only to build digests, history and reports.
• What about GDPR? Workspace data can be exported or erased on request, and data belonging to uninstalled workspaces is purged automatically after the retention window. Details in the Privacy Policy.
• What does it cost? Free up to 10 active participants, no credit card. Paid is $2.50 a month per person who actually answers. See pricing.
• What if we remove it? Uninstalling stops all scheduled sending immediately. Stored data is erased after the retention window.

4If you are the admin

The five-minute review: the permissions page lists every scope and why it exists, the Privacy Policy covers storage and deletion, and the Terms cover the rest. asyncmate posts digests and check-in DMs; it has no access to channel history, member DMs or files. Installing costs nothing and billing stays off until someone upgrades.

5If approval is refused or stalls

Ask which part is the blocker, because the fix is usually specific. If it is data location, the answer is the EU. If it is scope creep, point at the permissions table: there is no channel-read scope to remove. If it is procurement, the Terms and an invoice through Stripe usually satisfy it. If your workspace simply does not approve new apps, a workspace owner can install it themselves and add you as a dashboard user afterwards.