FixControl
Slack integration

Ticket questions and approvals inside Slack

Ask what’s open across FixControl, Jira, Freshdesk, Odoo, and TOPdesk. Approve plans, patches, replies, and deployments from a decision card in the thread. Every decision is tied to a linked identity and recorded in the decision ledger.

Decision cards in-threadLinked, verified identitiesPer-capability health
What it does

Answer questions, collect approvals, route new work

Governed intake

Mention the bot and the message becomes a work item in the bound project, inside your own organization. Plain language works after an answer too: “create a ticket for this” opens one behind a confirmation card, and “send it to the customer” stages the answer as a governed customer reply awaiting approval.

Ticket questions

Ask what’s open or waiting on approval across FixControl, Jira, Freshdesk, Odoo, and TOPdesk. An intent gate runs before intake, so a question stays a question instead of turning into a new ticket.

Approvals on decision cards

Plans, patches, replies, and deployment gates arrive as decision cards in the channel. Each approve or request-changes decision is recorded with your identity, role, and channel.

Cards stay in sync

When someone decides in Slack, the card updates and the operational timeline records it. The app and the thread show the same state.

Verified identities

A Slack user links their FixControl identity before they can decide anything. Identities carry verified and elevated tiers, and policy can require the elevated tier for higher-risk approvals.

Channel-aware replies

Replies post back into the thread that asked. In public or shared channels, answers are redacted to match channel visibility, so internal ticket detail stays inside your tenant.

Capabilities & health

Each Slack capability reports its own status

Intake can be healthy while posting fails — say, when the bot was never invited to a channel. FixControl tracks health per capability and shows it, so you know which paths work before you rely on them.

Receive messages & mentions (intake)
Supported

Messages routed to the bot become governed work items in the bound project, inside your own organization. Ticket creation from plain language is confirmed before it runs, and a requested customer reply becomes an approval card in the channel — deciding it requires a linked, elevated Slack identity.

Ticket-question answering
Supported

Answers questions about existing FixControl, Jira, Freshdesk, Odoo, and TOPdesk tickets, with a pre-intake gate that keeps a question from creating an issue.

Approval decision cards
Supported

Posts cards for plans, patches, replies, and deployment gates, and records each approve or request-changes decision with attribution.

Post replies & card updates
Configuration-dependent

Requires the workspace to be linked and the bot present in the channel. When those are missing, the posting capability reports unhealthy while intake keeps working.

Verified / elevated identity binding
Configuration-dependent

Available once a Slack user links their FixControl identity. Governance policy can require the elevated tier before someone approves higher-risk actions.

A single green ‘connected’ badge
Not available — by design

FixControl doesn’t show one. A workspace can be fine for intake and broken for posting, so status is reported per capability.

When a post fails

A failed Slack post is a visible event

Delivery through the integration outbox
Every outbound Slack write — a reply, a card update, an acknowledgement — is queued in the integration outbox. Transient failures retry; persistent ones dead-letter and appear on the operational timeline. Approvals taken in Slack are written to the decision ledger with actor, role, channel, evidence, and consequence.
FAQ

Questions teams ask about the Slack app

Is Slack just a chatbot in FixControl?+
No. Chat is the interface; governance runs underneath it. Ticket answers, intake, and approvals are each scoped to a project, checked against permissions and capability health, and recorded.
What happens if a Slack post fails?+
It waits in the outbox and retries. If it keeps failing, it’s dead-lettered and flagged, so an undelivered reply shows up as a failure on the timeline.
Who can approve from Slack?+
Only Slack users whose linked FixControl identity carries the required role. Higher-risk actions can be limited to the elevated identity tier, and each decision records who took it and from which channel.
Are approvals from Slack audited?+
Yes. A decision made on a Slack card lands in the same decision ledger as an in-app approval, with the same fields recorded.
Can sensitive ticket detail leak into a public channel?+
Answers respect tenant isolation and the visibility of the channel they post into. In public or shared channels, internal ticket detail is redacted from the response.

See a Slack approval end to end

Book a demo and watch a question, an approval, and the matching ledger entry happen in a live workspace.