Groupies for Slack
Group events with sign-up slots, RSVPs and a shared calendar, right in Slack. Everyone sees times in their own zone.
By installing Groupies, you agree to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy.
How it works
Add Groupies to Slack
Adding it creates your group. Workspace admins become Groupies admins.
Create an event
Run
/groupies newor choose ＋ New event in the Groupies App Home. Add a time, a place and the slots you need.People sign up on the card
Each slot has a button, with Maybe and Can't go below. Add to calendar puts the event in anyone’s own calendar.
On a slot with a price, the reply only you see has a Pay to join link, or the organizer’s payment links and I've paid.
Keep track in Slack
The App Home lists what’s coming, with a month view.
/groupies calendaradds a live calendar tab to a channel. Admins see No reply yet and can send a Nudge. Subscribe in your calendar sends you a personal link for each calendar you can see.
What your group gets
Calendars and who sees them
Give each activity its own calendar. Open it to everyone, keep it to certain circles, or make one just for you.
Every time in your own zone
Cards show each event in the reader’s time zone, alongside the zone it was planned in.
Repeating events
Set up a weekly run once, with an end date or none. Change just one date, this and following, or all.
Add to calendar
Subscribe to any of your group’s calendars, or all of them, in Google Calendar, Apple Calendar or Outlook, or get one personal feed of everything you’ve signed up for. New events, time changes and cancellations show up on their own. You can also add a single event.
A calendar on the web
Every event is on groupi.es too, for planning ahead or sharing a public calendar by link.
Managers fill the gaps
Whoever runs an event can add someone to a slot or take them off, and Groupies lets that person know.
One-tap sign-in
Links in messages only you can see open the website signed in, once you have a web login.
Event photos from the thread
Photos posted in the thread under an event’s card go to its gallery, and you get a message with a link to it. Groupies joins the public channels it posts in, so nobody has to invite it. For photos elsewhere, use the Add to event photos shortcut on the message.
Notify me
Press 🔔 Notify me on a card to hear about sign-ups and changes, by Slack message, email or the daily digest.
Paid events
Put a price on a slot and people pay when they sign up: by card into your group’s own Stripe account, or straight to the organizer by Venmo, PayPal, Cash App or Zelle.
Chip in from Slack
An event that asks for a chip-in gets a Chip in button on its card.
/groupies supportposts the group’s support card. Paying happens on the web, through Stripe.
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What Groupies can access
Groupies asks Slack for these permissions when you add it. Here’s what each one is for.
- commands
- Adds the
/groupiescommand and the New Groupies event and Make a Groupies event shortcuts. - chat:write
- Posts event cards, updates them as people sign up, and sends replies only you can see.
- chat:write.public
- Posts an event card in a public channel without being invited to it first.
- channels:join
- Joins the public channels it posts event cards in, so Slack tells it about photos replied in their threads.
- users:read
- Reads people’s names and time zones, and whether an account is a bot or deactivated, so cards show who’s coming at the right times.
- im:write
- Sends direct messages from Groupies: a reminder before an event you’re going to, a nudge, your calendar subscription link, or a note when a manager adds or removes you.
- canvases:write
- Creates and updates a channel’s calendar canvas when someone runs
/groupies calendar. - channels:read
- Reads who is in a public channel, to count who hasn’t replied and to share a calendar with a channel’s members.
- groups:read
- The same for private channels Groupies has been added to.
- files:read
- Downloads photos posted in the thread of a Groupies event card, or picked with Add to event photos, for groups with Event photos.
- channels:history
- Lets Slack tell Groupies about replies in public channels it’s in. It acts only on photos replied in the thread of one of its own event cards, for groups with Event photos; every other message is ignored and never stored.
- groups:history
- The same for private channels Groupies has been added to.
What it doesn’t do
- It doesn’t keep or act on your conversations. Slack sends it messages in channels it’s in; it only looks for photos replied under its own event cards, for groups with Event photos, and ignores everything else.
- Otherwise, the only messages it reads are ones you pick with Make a Groupies event or Add to event photos.
- It can’t see email addresses.
- It posts only where you ask it to, and sends direct messages only to the people they’re for.
Questions
What does it cost?
Groupies is free for every group. Plus adds event photos and files, public invites with door check-in, and your own logo, and founding groups get it free at launch. Later it will be $5 a month or $50 a year per group.
Card payments are the exception: Groupies keeps a small fee on each one. Venmo, PayPal, Cash App and Zelle payments are free and go straight to the organizer.
Does everyone need a Groupies account?
No. Adding Groupies to Slack creates your group, and people sign up straight from the card. An account on the website is optional, for the web calendar and group settings.
How do I remove Groupies?
A workspace admin can remove it from the workspace’s app management in Slack. Groupies loses access to the workspace and stops posting. Your group and events stay on the website, and adding the app again reconnects the same group.
What happens to our data?
Groupies stores what it needs to run your events: the events, who signed up, their notes, and names from Slack. Slack’s access token is stored encrypted. To have your group’s data deleted, contact us.
Bring your next event into Slack
Adding Groupies takes a minute, and nobody needs a new account to sign up.
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