---
canonical_url: "https://buildwithwave.com/docs/account/slack-notifications"
title: "Slack notifications"
description: "Connect Slack once and Wave posts to a channel you choose when a job is created, an estimate starts, or someone adds a note. Admins set it up on any paid plan."
group: "account"
lane: "how-to"
status: "published"
publishedAt: 2026-09-26
updatedAt: 2026-09-26
sidebarOrder: 120
tags: ["slack", "notifications", "integrations", "settings", "how-to"]
relatedSlugs:
  - "account/connect-quickbooks"
  - "collaboration/internal-notes"
  - "account/settings-overview"
  - "billing/plan-comparison"
sidebarLabel: "Slack notifications"
---

Connect Slack and Wave posts a message to one channel in your workspace when work happens in Wave: a new job, a new estimate, or a new note. The office sees what the field is doing without opening Wave, and every message has an **Open in Wave** button that goes straight to the job.

## Who can connect Slack

- **Admins only.** Slack lives in **Settings → Integrations**, which only admins see.
- **Any paid plan.** Slack notifications are not part of the free trial. On the trial, the Slack card says they come with any paid plan and offers **See plans**.

If your company's paid plan ends, the messages stop.

## Connect Slack and choose a channel

1. Open the account menu and choose **Settings**, then the **Integrations** tab.
2. On the **Slack** card, click **Connect Slack**.
3. Slack opens its own screen. Pick the workspace channel Wave should post to and allow the connection.
4. Slack sends you back to Wave.

Open **Settings → Integrations** again and the Slack card shows **Connected**, the channel and your workspace name. The channel is chosen on Slack's screen, not in Wave, so Wave never sees your list of channels.

If you cancel on Slack's screen, nothing is linked.

## Choose what Wave posts

Once you're connected, a **What Wave posts** section lists three switches. Each one saves as soon as you flip it.

| Switch | Starts | Wave posts when |
| --- | --- | --- |
| **New job** | On | A job is created, whether on the Jobs board or from the Home box. |
| **New estimate** | On | An estimate starts on a job. |
| **New note** | Off | Someone adds a note to a job. |

Job and estimate messages name the job number, customer, address and who created it, and the kind of estimate when one started. When a job and its estimate start in the same step and both switches are on, Wave posts one message for the job that says the estimate started, instead of two.

**A New note message posts the note text itself**, along with the job and who added it. Anyone in the channel can read it, so pick a channel whose members should see your job notes before you turn this on. On a phone's lock screen, the Slack alert shows only that a note was added. The text appears when someone opens Slack.

Wave posts only these three kinds of messages.

## Change the channel

Slack ties the connection to the channel you picked, so changing it means connecting again:

1. Click **Disconnect** on the Slack card, then click again to confirm.
2. Click **Reconnect** and pick the new channel on Slack's screen.

Your switch settings are kept, so you don't have to set them again.

## Disconnect

Click **Disconnect** on the Slack card, then click again to confirm. The second click is there so a stray tap doesn't cut the connection. Messages stop right away.

Afterward the card says the connection ended and the button reads **Reconnect**. Reconnecting brings back the switch settings you had.

## Related

- [Job notes](/docs/collaboration/internal-notes): the notes a New note message shares
- [Connect QuickBooks](/docs/account/connect-quickbooks): the other integration on the same tab
- [Settings overview](/docs/account/settings-overview): every Settings tab and who sees it
- [Plans and limits](/docs/billing/plan-comparison): which plans include Slack notifications