Connect Slack with Glow
Connect Slack to Glow to make channels and DMs both a trigger and a destination for your workflows. Fire off automations the moment someone posts a message or reacts to one, and route updates from every other connected app straight into the channels your team already watches. No more copying status updates between tools by hand — Slack becomes the shared feed for the whole stack.
Connect SlackWhat you can do
Triggers
- New message in channelFires when a message is posted in a channel you’re watching.
- New direct messageFires when your bot or a connected user receives a DM.
- Reaction addedFires when someone reacts to a message with a specific emoji.
- New channel createdFires when a new channel is created in the workspace.
Actions
- Send channel messagePost a message to any channel, optionally as a specific bot.
- Send direct messageSend a private message to a specific user.
- Create channelSpin up a new channel, optionally inviting a list of members.
- Update messageEdit the text of a previously sent message.
Use cases
Ticket alerts, in real time
When a new Zendesk ticket comes in tagged urgent, post it to #support-escalations so nobody has to refresh a dashboard.
Daily standup digest
Pull yesterday’s completed Asana tasks every morning and drop a formatted summary into #team-standup before the first meeting.
New lead, instant heads-up
The moment a form fills out in HubSpot, notify the sales channel with the lead’s details so reps can follow up within minutes.
How it works
Connect your account
Authorize Glow to access your Slack account in a couple of clicks — no API keys or webhooks to configure by hand.
Pick a trigger or action
Choose one of Slack's triggers to start a workflow, or drop in one of its actions as a step further down the chain.
Map the data
Wire fields from Slack into the rest of your workflow — Glow handles the formatting so every step downstream gets what it expects.
Turn it on
Publish the workflow and Glow runs it automatically from then on, every time the trigger fires.
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Asana
Create and update tasks automatically so project status reflects reality without someone updating it by hand.
Notion
Turn pages and databases into both a source of automation triggers and a destination for structured updates.