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title: "Financial Controller AI Agent in Slack - Payhawk Help Center"
slug: "connecting-the-financial-controller-ai-agent-to-slack"
description: "Connect Payhawk to Slack so employees can use the Financial Controller AI Agent there. Learn how to connect, exclude employees from chasing and disconnect."
updated: 2026-10-27T13:55:34Z
published: 2026-10-27T13:55:34Z
canonical: "payhawk.com/connecting-the-financial-controller-ai-agent-to-slack"
---

> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://payhawk.com/help/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Connecting the Financial Controller AI Agent to Slack

Payhawk Administrators at your company can connect your Payhawk account to Slack, enabling the Financial Controller AI Agent as a communication channel that employees can use to interact with the AI Agent.

## Before you start

- To connect the AI Agent to Slack, you must be an administrator in both Payhawk and your Slack workspace. This ensures you have the necessary permissions to authorize the integration and manage notifications.
- Once Slack is connected, the Financial Controller AI Agent immediately starts sending consolidated reminders to employees in the linked Payhawk entity.
- Users with matching email addresses in Slack and Payhawk will receive consolidated reminders automatically, even if they haven't manually authenticated in Slack.
- If a user's Slack email differs from their Payhawk email, they must authenticate in Slack to start receiving reminders or approve requests.

## Connecting the AI Agent to Slack

You can connect Payhawk to Slack to manage employee card payments through the Financial Controller AI Agent in the following way:

1. In the [Payhawk Web Portal](https://portal.payhawk.com), go to **Settings** > **AI Office**.
2. Go to **Financial Controller Agent** and click on **Connect**.
3. Select **Slack** and click on **Continue**. As a result, the Slack connection flow will start.
4. Grant permissions to share data between Payhawk and Slack by clicking on **Continue**.

![Instructions to connect Payhawk with Slack for expense management and workflow integration.](https://storage.googleapis.com/payhawk-cdn/AI%20Office/connecting_FCA_slack.jpg)

## Excluding employees from chasing

As a Payhawk Administrator, you can turn off the AI Agent's reminders for specific employees directly from the chat. This helps when someone is on leave or should not be chased for a period.

To manage the exclusion list, message the Financial Controller AI Agent and:

- Ask it to stop chasing a specific employee to add that person to the exclusion list.
- Ask which employees are currently excluded to review the list.
- Ask it to resume chasing an employee to remove that person from the list.

If more than one employee matches the name you provide, the AI Agent asks you to confirm which person you mean before making the change.

## Disconnecting from Slack

To disconnect the Financial Controller AI Agent from Slack:

1. In the [Payhawk Web Portal](https://portal.payhawk.com), go to **Settings** > **AI Office** > **Financial Controller Agent** > **Slack**.
2. Click on the three-dot menu and select **Disconnect**.

> [!WARNING]
> - Disconnecting from Slack stops all automated follow-ups for users in that Payhawk entity.
> - The Payhawk app will remain visible in Slack until manually removed from the Slack workspace settings.
> - Users will no longer be able to take actions for that entity in Slack after disconnection.

## Disclaimer

This application integrates large language models (LLMs) to deliver AI-powered functionality, including conversations and automated suggestions. Due to the nature of machine learning, responses may sometimes be inaccurate or incomplete. Payhawk does not use your data to train any public or third-party models.

For more information about how Payhawk processes personal data for the Financial Controller AI Agent feature, see the [Global Privacy Policy](https://payhawk.com/privacy), which covers personal data for which Payhawk acts as a Controller.

## Useful resources

- [Overview of the Financial Controller AI Agent](/help/overview-of-the-financial-controller-agent)
- [Employee guide for setting up the Slack connection](/help/employee-guide-for-using-the-financial-controller-ai-agent-in-slack)