Connect to Slack on Zapier
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About Slack's app
| Are self-hosted or cloud-hosted accounts supported? | Cloud-hosted accounts | |
| Is a paid Slack plan required? | No |
View Slack's plans. |
| Are any special account permissions required? | Yes | You'll need to be a Slack owner and an admin. Learn more about Slack's account permissions. |
| Are there usage limits? | Yes | If you're on a free Slack plan, there is a limit of 10 apps you can add to your Slack workspace. |
| Are there pagination limits? | Not applicable | |
| Do trigger samples use real data from your account or generic data? | Real sample data | Sample data for new Slack messages will always include the threads_ts field, even if it's not in a thread. You can use this field to filter your Zaps to only trigger on new messages, not in Slack threads. On a Zap run, the threads_ts field will only appear if it's a message within a thread. |
| Are custom fields supported? | Not applicable | |
| Do update actions overwrite or append to existing data? | Not applicable | |
| Is there any additional info? | Yes |
