Notifications & Slack
Connect Slack, set where notifications go, and control what gets delivered where.
The Ad Spend runs in two places: the web app and Slack. Slack is a first-class surface with its own dedicated backend, not a bolt-on. You can receive Alerts, Trends, and Reports in Slack, and ask questions about your data in a Slack thread and get an answer in-thread.
This page covers how to connect Slack, set where notifications go, and what gets delivered where.
Connecting Slack
Slack is connected from Settings → Notifications. You authorize The Ad Spend's Slack app the same way other integrations connect, through OAuth. From the Notifications tab you can connect a workspace, set a default channel, toggle direct messages, and disconnect.
Setting a default channel
Your org has a single default Slack channel, set in Settings → Notifications. You can also toggle personal DMs, which notify members by DM when their email matches their Slack account.
Routing different notification types to different channels is configured at the individual alert or report level, not as a global org setting. Each alert and each report schedule has its own destination — a Slack channel, an email address, or a webhook. That's how you send some notifications to #ad-ops and others to #client-updates: configure the destination on the individual alert or report.
How each notification type is delivered
Alerts fire to their configured destination when the alert's condition is met. Each alert has its own frequency control: always, once, or interval (interval means at most once per period, for example once every 15 minutes). Past alerts and their trigger history are also viewable in the web app.
Trends are delivered to Slack when new trends are found. Trend analysis runs Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, and a notification fires when new trends surface. In the web app, trends appear as cards you can review, vote on, and archive.
Reports are posted to the Slack channel set on that report's schedule, on the cadence configured for that report. Past report instances are stored and browsable in the web app.
Chat lets you ask questions about your data directly in a Slack thread and get an answer in-thread. It's also available in the web app.