What the daily summary shows
- Everyone who is out for the whole day, grouped by the leave type you set up in Bindle, like Annual Leave, PTO or Vacation.
- Part days, like “out for the morning”, “heading out in the afternoon” or a few hours at a set time.
- Approved and pending requests, so nobody is caught out by leave that hasn’t been signed off yet.
- A link back to the Wallchart in Bindle for the full picture.
Some leave is private. If you mask a leave type in Bindle, such as sick or personal leave, the summary just says the person is “out today”.
When it posts
The summary goes out once a day at 9am in your time zone. You can pick a different hour.
Bindle stays quiet on days when nobody is working, like weekends and public holidays. If you’d rather not hear “No one has any bookings for today”, you can turn on a setting that skips days when nobody is out.
What it doesn’t do
You can’t request or approve leave in Slack. Staff request time off in Bindle, on the web or on their phone, and approvers get an email.
Bindle can’t read your Slack messages or see your channels. It asks Slack for one permission: to post to the single channel you choose. The summary only includes leave that the person who connected Slack can see in Bindle.
How to set it up
- Click Add to Slack below and log in to Bindle if you need to.
- Slack asks you to allow Bindle to post. Pick the channel for the daily summary and confirm.
- That’s it. Your first summary arrives at 9am.
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