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title: Let Users Respond to Approvals Requests from Classic Approval Processes in Slack
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description: If your users don’t need in-depth information to decide how to respond to an approval request, and they have a connection to Slack, enable Approvals in Slack. That way, a user can simply respond to the Slack notification.
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# Let Users Respond to Approvals Requests from Classic Approval Processes in Slack

If your users don’t need in-depth information to decide how to respond to an approval request, and they have a connection to Slack, enable Approvals in Slack. That way, a user can simply respond to the Slack notification.

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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.

- **[Considerations for Classic Approval Processes in Slack](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.approvals_for_slack_considerations.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)**  
    Find out more about Approvals in Slack, before you enable it.
- **[Enable Approval Notifications for Classic Approval Processes in Slack](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.approvals_for_slack_enabling.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)**  
    If your org uses both classic Approval Processes and Salesforce Digital HQ app, approval notifications are automatically enabled in Slack. Users receive approval requests as messages on the Salesforce Digital HQ’s Messages tab.
- **[Where Do Slack Classic Approval Notifications for Classic Approval Processes Appear?](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.approvals_for_slack_overview.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)**  
    When you have Approvals in Slack enabled, approval notifications are sent to the approver via the Salesforce Digital HQ app as a direct message in Slack. To see the approval request post, you must have access to Slack.