Slack Integration

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Slack Integration is the itemit PowerUp for Slack asset management notifications: it posts activity from your asset register into a Slack channel your team already watches. You connect the workspace through Slack's own authorisation, invite the itemit bot into one channel, then switch on the event categories you want from the sixteen available. An equipment store might take check-outs and returns only. A workshop might add issues and reminders. A finance lead might want values and nothing else. Whatever you pick, the people who need to know an asset has moved find out without opening itemit, and because notifications travel one way, nobody can change a record from a chat window.

The Problem

The people who need to know an asset has moved are rarely the people sitting in the asset system. Booking changes and check-outs go unnoticed until somebody walks to the store cupboard and finds it empty.

The Solution

Activity arrives where your team already works. Choosing which event types post means the channel stays useful rather than becoming something everyone mutes in the first fortnight.

In Action

A production company sends check-out and check-in events into their #kit channel. When a camera body goes out on a Friday shoot the whole crew sees it, and the Monday hunt for missing equipment stops being a weekly ritual.

Key Features

Connect your Slack workspace with a single OAuth authorisation
Invite the itemit bot into whichever channel should receive notifications
Sixteen event categories: bookings, check-outs, items, inventory, comments, issues, reminders, tags, files, RFID, collections, locations, booking requests, values and assignments
Toggle each category independently so the channel stays worth reading
Notifications for issue creation, status and priority changes
Booking request created, approved and rejected alerts
Disconnect Slack at any time from the PowerUp settings

Preview

Integration with itemit

Requires a Slack workspace you can install apps into. Notifications travel from itemit to Slack only.

Frequently Asked Questions

It takes a couple of minutes. Open the Slack PowerUp in itemit, click Connect with Slack and authorise itemit in your Slack workspace. You are then asked to invite the bot into the channel that should receive notifications by typing /invite @itemit in that channel. Once the bot is in, itemit picks up the channel automatically and you can choose which events to send.

The channel you invite the itemit bot into. The integration posts to one channel per workspace rather than routing different event types to different places, so pick the channel your team actually watches. If you want to move it later, invite the bot into a different channel.

Sixteen categories, each toggled on its own, listed in full in the features above. Most teams start with check-outs and bookings only, see how much traffic that produces in a normal week, then add more. Item and inventory events are the noisiest on a large register.

No. The integration sends notifications one way, from itemit into Slack. Approving, editing or checking items back in is done in itemit itself. Keeping it one-directional means your asset records cannot be changed from a chat window by anyone who happens to be in the channel.

That depends entirely on which event types you enable and how busy your register is. Item created, updated and deleted alerts are the noisiest on a large workspace, since every edit counts. If a channel gets too busy, turn individual event types off in the PowerUp settings.

The integration uses Slack's standard OAuth authorisation flow, so itemit never sees your Slack password. You can revoke access from the PowerUp settings in itemit, or from the apps section of your Slack workspace admin, and notifications stop immediately.

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