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We use Slack for internal communication in our small, remote-work company. We have team members in multiple countries.
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Slack is a group messaging or team collaboration app that aims to simplify communication for businesses. Features include open discussions, private groups, and direct messaging, as well as deep contextual search and message archiving, and file sharing. Slack integrates with…
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What is Slack?
Slack is a Digital HQ
As the command center of the workday, Slack provides a flexible way to work with people, apps and partners in one space.
The new space for success
Slack connects people with each other and with their tools and data, equipping teams to be productive and open up opportunities.
Slack connects people with each other and with their tools and data, equipping teams to be productive and open up opportunities.
Transform Teamwork
Working together in channels—dedicated spaces built around specific projects and initiatives—keeps the right people and information in one place.
Embrace Flexibility
Huddles let teams chat over audio instantly, with the option for video and screen sharing with the tap of a button.
Work Faster
With clips, teams can create audio, video and screen recordings to share updates, walk through demos or talk out an idea with more clarity (and personality).
Extend Collaboration
Slack Connect lets users work alongside external partners and customers in Slack channels, to speed up projects and strengthen relationships.
Integrate Tools
From project management tools to a daily calendar, Slack integrates with more than 2,400 applications.
Automate Tasks
In Slack, users can turn routine meetings and tasks like standups, approvals and requests into automated workflows.
Slack Features
Project Management Features
- Supported: Task Management
- Supported: Scheduling
- Supported: Workflow Automation
- Supported: Mobile Access
- Supported: File tracking
- Supported: Tagging
- Supported: Search
- Supported: Integrates with other Project Management Tools
- Supported: Visual planning tools
Communication Features
- Supported: Chat
- Supported: Status updates and activity feed
- Supported: Notifications
- Supported: Comments and feedback
- Supported: Discussions
- Supported: User directory and online status
- Supported: Sharing and privacy
- Supported: Surveys
- Supported: Internal knowledgebase
- Supported: Integrates with Skype
- Supported: Integrates with GoToMeeting
- Supported: Integrates with Gmail and Google Hangouts
- Supported: Integrates with Outlook
File Sharing & Management Features
- Supported: Versioning
- Supported: Document files
- Supported: Image files
- Supported: Video files
- Supported: Audio files
- Supported: Document collaboration
- Supported: Shared folders
- Supported: Access control
- Supported: Advanced security features
- Supported: Integrates with Google Drive
- Supported: Integrates with SharePoint
- Supported: Device sync
- Supported: Web interface
- Supported: File change notifications
- Supported: Simultaneous editing
Additional Features
- Supported: Audio Conferencing
- Supported: Video Conferencing
- Supported: Sales Enablement
- Supported: Unified Communications as a Service
- Supported: Meeting Management
- Supported: Encrypted Communications
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Slack Technical Details
| Deployment Types | Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
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| Operating Systems | Unspecified |
| Mobile Application | No |
Frequently Asked Questions
Slack is a group messaging or team collaboration app that aims to simplify communication for businesses. Features include open discussions, private groups, and direct messaging, as well as deep contextual search and message archiving, and file sharing. Slack integrates with a number of other tools, such as MailChimp, Dropbox, and Google Drive. Slack was acquired by Salesforce in December 2020.
The product is free to use, and also has paid plans with more features and greater controls.
The company has raised $340M in funding and boasts 800k users.
Slack starts at $0.
Reviewers rate Chat highest, with a score of 9.7.
The most common users of Slack are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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We use Slack for internal communication in our small, remote-work company. We have team members in multiple countries.
- Good for instant messaging, to create a more intimate and conversational feel among remote employees
- Integrates easily with Google Calendar to send notifications
- Good search functionality
- When I need to mute notifications (e.g. during a meeting), I have a hard time finding where to do it. The mute/pause setting could be more easily visible.
- I wish old Google calendar notifications would stop appearing as 'new' after a certain amount of time. As it is now, it shows as a new notification until I click on it, which I often don't do for calendar notifications. The result is that it appears that I have multiple new events to attend to, when really they are just old calendar items.
June 28, 2024
Works great for small teams!
My department uses Slack as our primary communication tool. We use it to send direct messages, announcements, and group messages to other team members in the department. We have several channels set up for different functions in our department to keep conversations organized. We also use Slack to share photos and resources among team members.
- Slack allows us to keep conversations organized and categorized with Channels
- Slack offers extensive customization per user (different themes, channel and DM organization, notification options)
- Slack has a user friendly interface that is easy to navigate and learn
- In the past, sometimes I didn't receive audio notifications when I received a message. I don't seem to have that issue anymore, though.
- More GIF options would be a nice touch!
- Sometimes, it's hard to tell if the "Snooze notifications" feature is working in accordance with my active hours. I don't always see the three z's when I'm outside of my active hours.
June 24, 2024
Slack Doesn't Slack
Slack solves the problem of too many meetings by being able to quickly get answers to questions with multiple people having eyes on the conversation, being able to join in the conversation if needed. It also allows me to communicate with my team despite us working remotely from across the city and in some cases, across the country.
- Communication
- Creating chat rooms for specific teams or topics
- A quick alternative to Zoom meetings
- It would be nice if I could NOT have a Slack notification if the browser app is open.
June 22, 2024
Slack is essential for the small company I work for
We use Slack to communicate about projects, clients, and company related manners. We also have channels that allow us to build relationships with one another that are not focused on workplace matters but instead daily pets, cycle club, book club, etc.
- Notifications
- Simple, user friendly updates
- UX / UI
- N/A
June 22, 2024
Slack is Awesome!!!!
Our team uses slack to help keep our team organized and communicate with other teams. With slack, we use games to help bring our team together on a fun way. We also use slack to do our weekly meetings. We also use the WorkFlows on slack daily, to help us with our team organization and communication.
- Organization
- Easy to Use
- Makes it fun
- Looks really great
- Personalization
- connect to other platforms
- signing in
- runs slow sometimes
June 19, 2024
Quick collaboration and easy to use
Slack is our main tool for communication besides email. I like that we can use it to quickly huddle with teammates if needed rather than setting up a zoom meeting. I also like that it's easy to control your notifications whether or not you want them right away or want to mute them for focus time.
- Huddles
- Notification preferences
- integrates with other softwares like tickets, zoom, and Google Calendar
- automatically mute my notifications if my Google Calendar says i'm in a meeting
- reply reminders like in gmail if you haven't responded to a Slack that you opened days before in case you forget
We use Slack almost entirely for internal and some client communication. These days, we use it more than we use email. It makes communication swift, simple, and organized. The search feature and thread capability are especially helpful for me. The thread feature helps ensure that people can have eyes on each other's conversations in case there's something that would be relevant to them, but it also keeps the chat from getting too busy.
We have numerous different channels for different functions at the company (marketing, creative, sales, general chat, random). It's a great way to connect with people in other departments, which can be particularly nice in an entirely remote company.
We have numerous different channels for different functions at the company (marketing, creative, sales, general chat, random). It's a great way to connect with people in other departments, which can be particularly nice in an entirely remote company.
- Organized chats
- Search feature with advanced filters
- Custom layouts
- APIs with other apps for seamless integration
- Syncs with my calendar to provide reminders
- Clearer step-by-step instructions on setting up integrations
- Easier 'reminder' features for responding to messages
June 10, 2024
Slack is best in class and second to none
We use Slack chat for P2P communications within our company, channels for specific projects/teams. We also have several integrations that send notifications to Slack for our benefit, such as when a customer completes a form or when we have a new customer to onboard. Slack allows us to have a single point of communication for our whole company.
- Chat - at this point I can’t think of a single additional feature needed for the basic chat function. They have nailed it.
- Integrations - many services and applications can be integrated into Slack to simplify communications and notifications
- Channels - channels allow us to keep conversations focused
- I really don’t have any, Slack is an exceptional tool
June 06, 2024
Slack is THE messenger app to use in business
We use Slack for internal messaging at my company. We are a fully remote company with employees across the country. Having an app that allows for easy messaging, video calls, announcements, etc. has made it much easier to stay in touch with far-flung teammates.
- Messaging
- Channels
- Reminders
- Huddles
- Integrating with other apps like Google Calendar or Drive
- n/a - I really love Slack!
June 05, 2024
Fully remote job made easy with Slack!
We are a fully remote organization, so we use it for essentially all of our communication!
- Easy to chat.
- Easy to stay organized with separate channels.
- Easy to take individual notes.
- Sometimes it updates without any advance notice or explanation of the changes, which can be hard to navigate.
May 31, 2024
Slack : The best official communication tool
Score 9 out of 10
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We use Slack for official communication, sharing files, data, and other official documents. It has been quite useful in managing projects and coordinating with project members. From daily huddles to integration with third-party apps for easy flow of information, Slack has it all. All of the key software that we work upon are integrated with Slack which helps in staying on top of our daily work.
- Communication with members of a project ( via channels features where you can create specific dedicated groups for project members only)
- Third-party app integration ( Integration with Asana, Gmail, Jira, GIFy, etc.)
- Daily Huddles - This has been one of the latest addition to the features, and this has been liked by all of our team members. It makes running daily huddles super easy, considering the WFH environment that we are in.
- UI - User interface is generic, and I believe Slack has a huge room for improvement to make it more interactive and friendly.
- If you use the search option on Slack, it gives results from open groups as well. Since the groups are open and not locked, it's okay to display the results, but I feel those results should not appear as there might be some of the pre-development confidential ideas which are not supposed to be shared with a large audience.
- Display of Profile status - Currently, you have to hover over the profile to know the status, but it would be quite useful if we have a small line just below the name, and it appears during the conversation too. The reason I feel it would be a good change is because we use it to display our leaves as well, and if the status is visible easily, people can know about our availability
May 29, 2024
Slack is a great collaboration tool - be sure your culture can maintain communication discipline!
In our smaller company, we use Slack to make company-wide communications quickly, and collaborate between different teams. The collaboration part cannot be overstated, as questions from Sales teams can be answered by product, product marketing, or engineers. It can also offer a direct line of product feedback to the product team. The ability to easily communicate with everyone in the company really helps get things done quickly.
- Collaboration
- Quick communication
- Integration workflows
- Slack desktop is slow when changing channels
- Searching is sluggish and could use improvement
- Needs more controls over statuses, alerts, and a focus mode
May 25, 2024
Slack for a good communication experience
In my organization we use Slack as our main solution to communicate with our co workers. It is easy to start a conversation or find an existing one. Lots of features to add emoji and gif to lighten things up. Very good tool and will continue to use it everyday.
- ease of use
- nice layout
- many options
- phone app
- alerts
- status
May 23, 2024
An indispensable tool for Power Users
We use Slack for regular communications, broadcasting messages, building quick war rooms and several day-to-day operations. I use Slack to ensure that messages and action items do not get lost in broader conversations. Also, there are several communities which are outside the purview of the office but in the Product Space which are helpful professionally.
- Channels for discussions
- Ability to remind and schedule messages
- Ability to deal with multiple communities
- Huddle often has some or the other issue with respect to connectivity
- Searching within threads can be nightmare. Message which are several weeks old are really hard to find.
- The FTUX can be better. Hard to find keyboard shortcuts for frequently used functions.
May 21, 2024
I can't imagine life without Slack.
Slack is our main hub of communication. We are a small advertising agency and we use it to do a few different things.
1. We have client channels where we can discuss work, share learnings, share media coverage, etc
2. Sometimes we have shared channels with clients and/or additional vendors directly
3. Internal channels that range from practical, like HR announcements, to fun, like sharing family, pets, travel.
4. DMs, of course, to faciliate fast and easy questions, etc
1. We have client channels where we can discuss work, share learnings, share media coverage, etc
2. Sometimes we have shared channels with clients and/or additional vendors directly
3. Internal channels that range from practical, like HR announcements, to fun, like sharing family, pets, travel.
4. DMs, of course, to faciliate fast and easy questions, etc
- Organize threads of project content - WAY easier than having multiple emails
- Provide the ability for others to observe communication on projects or topics that they aren't directly involved in
- Create a space to share universal business announcements
- Create spaces for topics that are fun
- We have issue with people not posting on main topics in the comment thread- which can cause things to get disorganized. Not sure how you can help change this user behavior, though. Could we move the location of a comment?
- We're a small business and it's mostly self-serve - but I would like to encourage our tech lead to revisit tips and tricks every now and then to make sure people are making the most of it. I bet there are features we don't even realize are there. Seems like something you could also email individual users?
- My channel list gets VERY long, and some are dormant for long periods of time but I don't want to get rid of them. Again, I think there are solutions but when you're working fast against a high volume of demands it just gets overwhelming. Is there maybe a prompt you could build in to remind us to put quiet channels in another section or something like that?
May 20, 2024
Communication and discussion made easier
1. Communicating with people
2. Opening threads for the communication
3. Announcements Channels for company wide messages
4. Way to view the alerts
5. Support channel for helping the users
6. Requests channel to requests various services
7. Integration with Gitlab to view the status of Task and Merge requests
2. Opening threads for the communication
3. Announcements Channels for company wide messages
4. Way to view the alerts
5. Support channel for helping the users
6. Requests channel to requests various services
7. Integration with Gitlab to view the status of Task and Merge requests
- Communication
- Save for later features
- Notifications
- Threads maintaining
- Notification support in Ubuntu like Mac
- Huddle UI can be easier to use
Slack is our main way to communicate and collaborate in real-time. It is used across the entire company, with both individual conversations and discussion in channels. We also make use of other features, such as the ability to build a to-do list, Workflows, Canvas, etc. The list of features in Slack is quite impressive for those on a high enough package.
- Ease of use
- Speed and efficiency
- Customer service
- No downtime
- Variety of ways to interact and connect
- Multiple tools for collaboration beyond messaging
- Quick video/voice chats through Huddle feature that work really well
- Too many features tied to Enterprise level
- Expand the Later feature for better project management
- Multiple tiers of Slack AI for those that can't afford what is there currently (which is more than the cost of the Pro plan itself). Teams AI is way cheaper
- Native survey feature instead of relying on third-party
- Video conferencing that can be scheduled, similar to Teams or Zoom. Huddles are great, but in order to replace Teams entirely, this is critical
May 09, 2024
Best solution for team communication!
Slack is pivotal in our company's communication ecosystem. It's the go-to platform for inter-team dialogues, cross-departmental collaborations, and one-on-one exchanges. Given our remote-first policy, Slack serves as our virtual office, enabling interaction regardless of geographical boundaries, and promoting a well-connected and productive work environment, across many different time zones and teams.
- Team messaging
- Quick file sharing
- Scheduling messages
- Apps and integrations
- Open audio spaces
- Instant channel creation
- Temporary data chats
I use Slack every minute of every day for instant communication and collaboration with colleagues and teammates! Slack has revolutionized the way in which I run my book of business and work with the broader organization. It's integrations with systems, such as Google, Workday, WorkRamp, etc, also allows me to stay in communication with my calendar, training requirements, and general business activities in a way that was never possible before Slack.
- Easy to use
- Integration with systems
- Pre-schedule messages to get items off my plate
- I would like to create more dynamic Polls within sub-groups
- Groups are limited to 9 people and you're forced to create a channel. Sometimes, that isn't the greatest approach
- The external connections feature is a little difficult to set up
April 29, 2024
Best tool for messages
Slack is the official tool that my whole company uses for messages. It's used daily for all the communications and between all the teams. Before Slack, the company used to have Telegram, which was also used for personal matters. With Slack, the employees were able to separate their personal and professional lives and get more work-life balance. It's the fourth company that I work in that uses Slack, and for me, it's the best system to make communication faster and easier. Not only direct messages with specific people, but the channels are also very useful for internal communication, warnings, and notices for the entire company.
- Direct Communication between people
- Separates your work-life messages
- Keeps history of conversations and files
- Integration with bots and other platforms
- Threads
- Automations
- The order of chats and channels
April 18, 2024
Slack has been very helpful in improving my productivity
We are a remote team and we have clients across the globe and Slack plays a very crucial role in establishing the communications internally and with our clients.
We use Slack for ad-hoc communications, we huddle atleast 3-4 times in a day for quicker and detailed meetings. Slack has been very helpful in the last 3 years of my remote work life in maintaining the communications flowing. I use notes feature a lot to save important information accessible to everyone in the channel.
We use Slack for ad-hoc communications, we huddle atleast 3-4 times in a day for quicker and detailed meetings. Slack has been very helpful in the last 3 years of my remote work life in maintaining the communications flowing. I use notes feature a lot to save important information accessible to everyone in the channel.
- Setting up quick meetings via huddle is the favorite feature. It instantly opens door for quick and ad-hoc communications very well and is a pretty useful feature.
- I am using notes feature recently very often to keep track of the important action items for the day, saving key credentials that are to be shared across the teams and I replaced my personal dm for storing drafts with the notes functionality.
- Catch-up feature on the desktop app is also pretty useful to quickly go through all the pending messages and very thoughtful feature from Slack, it keeps me upto date and saves time at the start of the day.
- Remind me later is something I use pretty often, I may not be able to work on that but definately wants to go through it in detail and respond, then this feature comes very handy to keep check on such messages and helps us not get lost especially when working across teams.
- I observed that when a huddle is initiated and if the other person joins right instatly it sometimes won't establish the connection and I could not be heard by the others or viceversa and often requires them to rejoin.
- Searching also becomes a bit challenging, it would be good if there's a date range filter to check the messages from a specific date range as often times it's very hard to find those months back messages.
- Despite Slack helping for ad-hoc meetings and quick un-planned conversation, it would be good if there's an option to set-up automated recurring meetings like we have daily stand-ups for that we had to set-up a google calendar invite just that it sends remiders and keep things organised. Fun fact we still use huddle to make these stand-up calls but google calendar is used to remind us of this as a placeholder.
- I read about AI integration but yet to experience it, otherwise having an AI bot to help around within Slack could really help, currently before sending important messages I am taking the content to gemini or chatgpt for corrections and correctness and pasting it back on Slack, an integrated AI system would help in getting this done within the Slack.
April 17, 2024
Slack: Communication and integration made Easy!
I use slack for communication with my teammates as well as to notify team about the website down alert triggered through datadog and alert via slack channel. The notification system is very good according to me as in it automatic mutes the notification during sleep hours so it maintains the work life balance.
- Integration with 3rd party apps
- Send Files
- Chat
- User interface can be improved
- Search Functionality within chat
- Video buffering issue
April 16, 2024
Best collaborative tool to enhance your business
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Internal communication between the teams seems to be cumbersome previously as we were relayed on the old legacy chat communication model from the google product and doesn't help us any way in terms of the feature and lead to manual intervention a lot. Our management felt it would be great if we have an all in one solution to resolved different issues so they cam across this special tool that helps us making the collaboration easier and communication between the teams made easy with this there by reducing effort and time. We use Slack for our every day communication and any major incidents like war room that connect people from different space to join and collaborate about the issue in a real-time manner
- Slack call
- chat
- channels
- voice during the call breaks need to be improved
- Slack channel engagement
- joining people in the call
Score 10 out of 10
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Verified User
We use Slack and an internal project communication tool for software development. It is also very hand to attach files, links and also integrate with third party software's like jira with Slack. The software is flawless and helps us in smoothly carrying out our day-to-day project management, monitoring, team communication, and tracking activities. Multiple projects can be tracked and managed in Slack simultaneously.
- Multiple projects group can be created and managed seamlessly
- Ease of communication between different project stakeholders
- Ease of sharing files and linking with external softwares like jira
- One major issue i encountered multiple times was in receiving the OTP while creating an account. It takes too much time, and sometimes the verification OTP didn't even come the whole day on the mentioned email id.
April 15, 2024
Use Slack - To communicate and collaborate effectively
We use Slack for internal organizational communication. We have also connected several apps to Slack: 1) CRM to Slack to inform us in specific channels about the deals that we have WON or LOST, 2) Bonusly to inform members when they receive a shoutout from other colleagues in the Organization 3) Google Calendar to automatically update status in Slack when someone is in meetings 4) Lucidchart to share workflow diagrams and 5) Clari to share recordings of calls.
- UI is very user friendly and intuitive
- Huddle feature in Slack saves a lot of time in organizing and sharing links to connect. It comes as a saviour especially when adhoc calls are needed for short durations.
- Ability to segment groups based on your criteria.
- Huddle while a great feature often has issues in terms of connectivity. At least once a week, I face an issue when I am not able to hear the other person or vice versa. Slack can work on improving this further.
- Slack should have an option to add color to FONTS or increase or decrease the font size. I sometimes feel that I have to use the CODE option to mark lines in RED that need attention.