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Apps for Admins

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Managing Slack, easier than ever. Use approval and provisioning APIs to help Slack Admins work more effectively. Secure your organization with auditing and session management APIs.

Manage channels​

Handle the intricacies of creating public and private channels, setting preferences, and connecting new workspaces—all with a single app. Use the APIs for channel management.

Manage app approvals​

Build an app that can handle approvals and restrictions for admins across an entire Slack org. Read our guide to app approval APIs.

Create workspaces and manage users in them​

An app can create a workspace and control addition and removal of that workspace's users. Apps can even mark a user as an Admin or owner. Read our guide to the APIs for managing users in a workspace.

Manage invite requests​

Let users invite friends to unexplored workspaces, while maintaining admin approval over those invites. Explore the invite request management APIs.

Define default channels for IDP groups​

An IDP group represents a group of users synced from your identity provider (IDP). You can add, remove, and list default channels for an IDP group with the admin.usergroups.* methods.

You can also add a workspace to an IDP group using the admin.usergroups.addTeams method. When you link a workspace to an IDP group, members of the IDP group automatically join the workspace.

Allowlists for private channels​

You can add, remove, and list membership allowlists for private channels with the admin.conversations.restrictAccess.* methods. Find more documentation here, or check out the individual methods:

Reset sessions rapidly​

When you suspect a device - mobile, web, or both - has been swiped, take immediate action. Wipe a user's login session using our session reset APIs.

Provisioning programmatically​

Provision and manage user accounts and groups with SCIM APIs.

Monitor workspace events​

Track what's happening in your organization using Audit Logs APIs.