Connecting your data
ZenBot works with the services you already use. Every connection is made from your own machine, with your own credentials.
What you can connect
Communication
- Gmail — Emails, threads and labels
- Slack — Messages, channels and threads
Productivity
- Google Calendar — Events, attendees and calendars
- Google Drive — Documents and shared files
- Confluence — Pages and spaces
- Jira — Issues, projects and sprints
Finance
- QuickBooks — Invoices, expenses and reports
Confluence and Jira share a single Atlassian connection — connect once and both are available.
How connecting works
- Open ZenBot on your own machine — by default
http://localhost:3000.More on finding it. - Go to Integrations.
- Choose the service you want from the list.
- Select Connect.
- Sign in at that provider and approve the access being asked for. The provider shows you exactly what that is before you agree.
- You are returned to ZenBot, and the service shows as connected.
Nothing is connected by default. ZenBot starts with no access to anything. Each connection is one you make deliberately, and it only ever gets the access that provider's consent screen described.
Where your data goes
Onto your own machine, and no further. ZenBot runs on hardware you control, so what it reads is stored there rather than uploaded to us — we operate no server that receives it. The privacy policy sets out what is held and for how long.
Reconnecting and disconnecting
A connection needs renewing when its authorisation expires or someone revokes it at the provider's end. The Integrations page marks it when that happens, and Reconnect takes you back through the same approval.
To end a connection, open it on the Integrations page and chooseDisconnect. You can also revoke access from inside the provider itself, which works even if you are away from the machine ZenBot runs on.