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Mirror Getwello to your family Slack.

Working parents and remote siblings already live in Slack. Mirror the Family Room into a private channel and Mum's check-ins, missed-day alerts and new visits land where you already look, no second tool to monitor.

Setup guide Get an API key

Coordinator-only. Included in the £4.99 plan. Same day to set up.

Family HQ

workspace.slack.com

# family-getwello· 4 members

GetwelloAPP08:14

:white_check_mark: Mum has just checked in. Mood: fine

Sarah08:15

love this 🧡 thanks for the heads-up

James08:42

Cool. I'm heading over after lunch with the walking stick from the chemist.

GetwelloAPP11:02

📅 New visit scheduled. James, today 14:00

Webhook event

check_in.created

POSTed at 08:14:32 with HMAC signature

Why this one matters

The right notification, in the place you already check.

Reaches the sibling who never installs apps

Slack is already on their laptop and phone. The Family Room conversation arrives there without negotiation.

Work-from-home pings, family-room style

Mum's check-in lands next to your standup reminders. Same flow, no second app to monitor.

Searchable family history

Years of Family Room conversations, indexed in the tool you already use. Threading, pins, search all work normally.

Free Slack + free Getwello integration

Incoming Webhooks take 30 seconds to create and cost nothing. Both ends are covered by what you already pay.

# family-getwello

[Getwello] Mum has just checked in. Mood: fine. (08:14)

[Sarah] love this 🧡

[Getwello] @here Mum hasn't checked in by 10:00.

[James] on it, calling now

The morning, in your channel

08:14 lands in #family-getwello.

Mum taps her button. Within a second or two, a Getwello message appears in your Slack channel with the time, the mood, and a green tick. Everyone with the channel open sees it at once. No coordination, no chasing, no separate notification stack.

Check-in submitted, mood and time inline.
Missed-day alerts trigger @here with high priority.
Family Room messages relayed so everyone in the channel can react.
Each new visit posted as a calendar-style entry.

How to set it up

The high level. Full walkthrough in the help guide.

01
Step 1 of 4
Create a private Slack channel for the family.
Suggested name: #family-getwello. Invite the people you want to see Mum's events. They do not need Getwello accounts to read the channel.
02
Step 2 of 4
Add an Incoming Webhook to that channel.
In Slack: Apps → Incoming Webhooks → Add to Slack. Pick the channel. Slack gives you a webhook URL that starts with hooks.slack.com.
config
```
https://hooks.slack.com/services/T0XXX/B0XXX/abc...
```
03
Step 3 of 4
Create the Getwello webhook subscription.
Open Settings → Developer API as a Coordinator, scroll to Webhooks, paste the Slack URL, tick the events you want (suggest check_in.created plus check_in.missed for v1).
04
Step 4 of 4
Click Test, watch Slack.
Our Test button fires a synthetic event. If your Slack channel shows a message within a couple of seconds, you're live. Tune the event list later by deleting and recreating the subscription.

Read the Slack setup guide →Mint your API key

Frequently asked questions

Will the Slack message look pretty or just be raw JSON?

Slack incoming webhooks accept a specific JSON shape. Our webhook fires the standard event JSON, which Slack displays as raw text by default. To get a nicely-formatted block-kit message, route through a small middleman (Zapier, a Cloudflare Worker or an n8n flow) that reshapes the payload. The setup guide has examples.

Can I post in the Family Room from Slack?

Not through the incoming webhook (that's one-way: Slack-in). For two-way, build a small Slack app using the Events API plus our POST /api/v1/family-room endpoint. Doable but more work; we suggest pinning that for v2 once one-way is working.

Will siblings need Getwello accounts to see Slack messages?

No. Anyone in the Slack channel sees the messages. If you want them to be Coordinators or Support Members in the Circle (with the proper role and audit trail), they'd need a Getwello account. For passive observers, the Slack channel alone is enough.

Can I filter which events go to Slack?

Yes, when creating the webhook subscription. The events checklist controls exactly which events fire. Only want missed-day alerts? Tick only check_in.missed. Easy to change later by deleting and recreating the subscription.

What about Microsoft Teams?

Almost identical setup. Teams supports incoming webhooks via Connectors. Same principle: create the Connector in Teams, paste the URL into Getwello webhook settings, done. A dedicated Teams page is on the roadmap.

Other integrations

Pair this with another.

Some families wire two or three at the same time. The webhook fans out, the API keys stay the same.

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