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description: Find out more about Approvals in Slack, before you enable it.
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# Considerations for Classic Approval Processes in Slack

Find out more about Approvals in Slack, before you enable it.

### Required Editions

<table class="slds-table slds-table_bordered slds-max-medium-table_stacked slds-m-bottom_small edition"><colgroup><col></colgroup><tbody><tr class=""><td class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;">Available in: both Salesforce Classic and Lightning Experience</td></tr><tr class="" id="approvals_for_slack_considerations__d5436e54"><td class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;">Available in: <strong>Enterprise</strong>, <strong>Performance</strong>, <strong>Unlimited</strong>, and <strong>Developer</strong> Editions</td></tr></tbody></table>

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Important Try [Flow Approval Processes](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.automate_automated_approvals.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "As your company grows, so does the complexity of your approvals, often requiring input from multiple people in different departments across different time zones. This complexity can mean that you spend more time waiting for each person to complete their review in the right order. Flow Approval Processes helps you coordinate multistep reviews that involve users, systems, and conditional paths."), a modern alternative to Classic Approval Processes. This new feature provides a more flexible, user-friendly flow-based interface, and it can trigger on record changes, supporting Apex extensibility and detailed logging for compliance and audit trails. It supports dynamic routing based on data and business rules, unlike Classic Approval Processes, which are tied to specific objects and offer limited support for processes by using conditions. With Flow Approval Processes, you can monitor submitted records and quickly identify bottlenecks, giving you unprecedented visibility into approval workflows. And, like Classic Approval Processes, Flow Approval Processes don’t consume automation credits or orchestration runs.

Users must have the Salesforce Digital HQ app in Slack. When you enable Approvals in Slack in your org, it’s turned on for all users. Before you use Approvals in Slack, make sure you understand the limitations.

- You can connect the Salesforce Digital HQ app to only one Salesforce org.
- The only available actions are Approve and Reject.
- The Show More link doesn’t work for Salesforce Classic users.
- If the approver has to manually select the next approver, they must log in to the full Salesforce site to complete the approval request.
- Users can respond only to approval requests without comments.
- Up to four fields only of an approval request can appear in a Slack notification.