Settle for Slack
Decisions that start in Slack shouldn't die in Slack
Slack has no concept of a decision. No deadline, no tally, no record. Settle adds one: /settle turns a question into a structured decision, each stakeholder votes from a private link whether or not they're in your workspace, and the settled card posts back to the channel.
$199/month · no per-seat fees · Voters need no Slack seat and no account
What is a Slack decision app?
A Slack decision app takes a question raised in a channel and gives it the parts Slack doesn't have: a fixed set of options, a deadline that fires on its own, a rule for what counts as agreement, and a record that survives the scroll. Settle for Teams does that, and adds the part most Slack tools can't — the people voting don't need to be in Slack at all.
What Slack is missing
No deadline
A thread has no closing time. It just gets quieter until someone declares a decision that nobody explicitly agreed to.
No tally
Seven thumbs-up on a message with four options tells you that people read it, not what they chose.
No record
The outcome is a sentence somewhere in the scroll. Slack search will find the word; it won't tell you it was the decision.
No way to include outsiders
The people who need to approve are often not in the workspace at all. A reaction poll can't reach them.
How it works
1 — Start it in Slack
Type /settle with your question. Settle creates the decision as a draft and sends you a private link to finish it.
2 — Finish the setup
Add 2–6 options, invite up to 30 stakeholders, set a deadline and a decision rule.
3 — Each stakeholder votes from a private link
Invitations go out by email, and you can copy any stakeholder's link into Slack, WhatsApp or a text. It opens in any browser and needs no account.
4 — The channel gets the result
At the deadline the settled card posts back to your Slack channel and the full record lands in your dashboard.
The Slack app asks for three scopes and nothing else: commands for the slash command, chat:write to post the settled card, and incoming-webhook to capture the channel you want results in. There are no user scopes, and Settle does not read your messages.
The part other Slack tools can't do
Most decisions that matter involve someone outside the workspace.
A poll app can only reach people in the channel. But the person who has to approve the creative is the client, the person who has to sign off on the date is at the partner agency, and the person whose budget it is answers email on a phone. None of them are going to join your Slack.
Each stakeholder's voting link is a plain web page. Settle emails it, and you can copy it from your dashboard into Slack, WhatsApp or a text message. The recipient opens it, marks each option yes, no or maybe, and they're done. No account, no app, no seat, no charge.
What comes back
- A settled card in your channel with the outcome and the response breakdown.
- A timestamped record in your dashboard — question, options, who responded, what they chose, the rule applied, and when it closed.
- Settled or Escalated. Settled means your rule was met. Escalated means the deadline passed without it, with a machine-readable reason: no majority, a tie, two options both clearing a majority, or unanimity not reached.
- Follow-up actions. Add up to 3 after it settles; stakeholders claim and complete them through the same link, and you get a Done Card when everything closes.
Pricing
$199/month flat. Not per seat, not per voter. Includes 25 managed decisions a month, unlimited team members, and up to 30 stakeholders on any single decision. Every plan opens with a 7-day free trial and you can cancel anytime.
External voters are outside the billing model entirely — they are never charged and never counted as seats.
Frequently asked questions
What does the /settle command do?
It starts a decision from wherever you are in Slack. Type /settle followed by your question and Settle creates it as a draft, then replies with a private link to finish the setup — options, stakeholders, deadline and decision rule. Nothing is visible to the channel until you launch it.
Do the people voting need Slack?
No. Each stakeholder you invite gets their own voting link, which works in any browser whether or not they are in your Slack workspace. That is the difference between Settle and a poll app: the people who need to approve are often clients or partners who will never be in your workspace.
Does the result post back to the channel?
Yes. When a decision settles — at the deadline, or when you close it manually — the settled card posts to the Slack channel you picked at install, showing the outcome and the response breakdown.
What permissions does the Slack app ask for?
Three scopes and no more: commands for the slash command, chat:write to post the settled card, and incoming-webhook to capture which channel you want results in. No user scopes, and Settle does not read your messages.
How is this different from a Slack poll app?
A poll collects opinions inside a channel. Settle closes a decision: a fixed set of options, a deadline that fires on its own, a rule for what counts as agreement, external voters who need no account, and a timestamped Settled or Escalated record at the end.
What does it cost?
Settle for Teams is $199/month flat with no per-seat fees, including a 7-day free trial. The plan covers 25 managed decisions a month and unlimited team members. Voters are never charged.
Add Settle to your Slack workspace
Install from the Slack Marketplace, type /settle, and close one real decision. 7-day free trial, then $199/month flat.
Three Slack scopes · No user scopes · Settle does not read your messages