Notifications & preferences
Your personal preferences live at Preferences (top-right menu). Changes apply only to your own account.
Email notifications
Section titled “Email notifications”Deckchair sends four kinds of email. Each can be toggled independently.
| Notification | Who gets it | When |
|---|---|---|
| Request approved | The requester | An approver marks your request approved. |
| Request rejected | The requester | An approver marks your request rejected. |
| New request | The approver | A team member submits a request for you to review. |
| Upcoming leave | The requester | Reminder in the days before your leave starts. |
Notifications you can’t act on are hidden automatically — for example, if you approve your own requests (i.e., you’re your own approver), you won’t see the Request approved toggle since it’d just email you about your own decisions.
Slack DMs
Section titled “Slack DMs”If your admin has installed the Slack integration, you can connect your Slack account from Preferences → Slack. Once connected, leave events arrive as DMs from the Deckchair bot, with one-click Approve / Decline buttons on submitted-request DMs. Slack DMs run alongside email and push — connecting Slack adds DMs as a third channel rather than replacing the others.
There’s a single notifications toggle on the Slack card. Email and push toggles continue to work independently.
Microsoft Teams DMs
Section titled “Microsoft Teams DMs”If your admin has installed the Microsoft Teams integration, you can connect your Microsoft account from Preferences → Microsoft Teams. The behaviour mirrors Slack: leave events arrive as DMs from the Deckchair bot, with one-click Approve / Decline buttons on submitted-request DMs, and the toggle on the Teams card runs independently of email and push.
Changing your password
Section titled “Changing your password”Under Preferences → Change Password:
- Enter your current password.
- Choose a new password (minimum 8 characters).
- Confirm the new password.
- Toggle Sign out other devices on if you suspect your account was used elsewhere — this ends every session except the one you’re in.
- Click Change Password.
You stay signed in on this device; no email confirmation is sent.
Forgot your current password? Sign out and use the Forgot password? link on the sign-in page to receive a reset email.
Using a passkey
Section titled “Using a passkey”Passkeys let you sign in with your device’s biometrics (Touch ID, Face ID, Windows Hello) instead of a password. If your team allows them, you’ll see an Add passkey option under Preferences. Follow your browser’s prompts to register one — then next time you sign in, choose “Sign in with passkey”.
You can have multiple passkeys (for example, one on your laptop and one on your phone) and remove any of them from the same screen.
Signing out everywhere
Section titled “Signing out everywhere”Currently there’s no “sign out of all sessions” button. If you think your account is compromised, change your password — this invalidates existing sessions — and remove any unfamiliar passkeys.