Chat channels are managed from Settings → Integrations, alongside your other connected apps.
Link your own account
This is the default way in, and any member can do it — no admin needed.1
Open Integrations
From your workspace, open Settings → Integrations and find Use Genie from your chat apps.
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Generate a code
Click to generate a one-time linking code, or just ask Genie AI directly: “let me use you from WhatsApp.” The code is shown once and stays valid for 15 minutes.
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Send it to the Genie bot
Send the code as a message to the Genie bot on the platform you want to link — WhatsApp, Slack, or Teams. Where the platform supports it, the panel links you straight to the chat.
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Start chatting
Genie confirms the link and replies naming your workspace. From then on, every message you send that bot is a turn in your workspace, run as you.
Connect a channel for the whole workspace
Instead of, or alongside, personal links, an owner or admin can connect an account that belongs to the workspace itself — a support WhatsApp number customers write to, for example — answered as one fixed member or by a Genie Agent.1
Open Integrations
Open Settings → Integrations and add a chat channel the same way you’d add any other connected app.
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Choose a platform and connect
Connect a WhatsApp Business number, a Slack workspace install, or a Teams tenant. Credentials are encrypted and never shown again after saving.
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Pick who answers, and who can write in
Choose whether the channel is answered by Genie AI or by a specific Genie Agent, and optionally restrict it to an allowlist of senders.
A workspace channel handled by a Genie Agent starts one run of that agent per incoming message, and replies with whatever the agent’s run produces.
Who a message runs as
If you’ve linked your own account, your messages are always yours — even inside a shared inbox your workspace also connected. Otherwise, a message on a workspace channel runs as that channel’s fixed member or agent, if the sender is allowed to write in. If neither applies, you get a short reply once an hour explaining how to link your account.Your conversation history
Everything you exchange with Genie over a chat channel lands in an ordinary workspace chat conversation, visible from Recent chats in the sidebar like any other — so a teammate with access can read it, and it’s there the next time you write in. On WhatsApp specifically, that workspace conversation is the only history Genie has of the thread, since WhatsApp itself doesn’t expose past messages.Related pages
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