Slack Integrations: A Monthly Subscription Hub

The extremely popular communication tool for teams, Slack, is taking the tech world by storm. Major news outlets recently reported that Slack hit 1MM daily active users. This is crazy growth for an enterprise tool in just two years of operation. Slack’s mission is to make teams “be less busy,” and here at SubscriptMe, like many other young startups, we love Slack because of it. Slack is a hub for teams to improve productivity and reduce email clutter. In and of itself, Slack is a SaaS product — a subscription service as we like to call it. Teams can add unlimited team members for the life of the product. The freemium limits are imposed when you want add more than 5 integrations, among other security-related features that are included as part of a premium membership. Slack’s appeal is undoubtedly its design, speed, on-boarding, and ease of use. But truly the best part of Slack are the integrations. For the uninitiated, this essentially means the you can connect all of the other software tools that you use to Slack and get updates in real-time directly in one place: your Slack team chat. We use Slack integrations religiously at SubscriptMe. We recently wrote about the five subscription tools that we use to power our business. Here are the tools that we use, subscription-based or not, that we integrate with Slack. Intercom, the awesome customer communication tool that we use to keep in touch with our customers and send targeted, contextual in-app messages, alerts us every time that a new user signs up for the app. This is pretty awesome — especially when you’re in that honeymoon phase of a product launch and wanting to know the second that a new user signs ups. When a user contacts us via Slack, we get a notification, too. The same goes for another subscription tool we use called Zendesk. We have a dedicated channel for notifications from the web. We use a tool called Notify, which enables us to receive Twitter, Quora, and Tumblr mentions. Additionally, we get notifications when App Store reviews are submitted and a daily report of the number of App Store downloads using an awesome tool called LaunchKit. What’s not pictured here is our notifications when a new JIRA is filed or a new build of the app is pushed to our code repository. The effect of seeing when code gets pushed is equally as awesome as knowing when a new user signs up. As you can tell, we use Slack in a number of ways and to receive a number of different updates about the status of our users and overall product. We highly recommend checking out Slack and all of the integrations that you can connect. It’s a great place to keep all the real-time updates for many of your subscription services. And in case you haven’t already, check out our app SubscriptMe to keep on top your monthly subscription bills. Originally published at blog.subscript.me.