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A channel is where items land. Everything you send goes into one.

Your Private channel

Every account has a Private channel. Only you see it, on every device you signed in on. It is never shared. Zas refuses to share it, because that is what makes it trustworthy.

Shared channels

A shared channel is for a small, known group: a couple of colleagues, a family, a project. The same rules apply inside it. Items expire in five days. Nothing accumulates.

Inviting people

Open a channel and choose Share channel. Zas creates an invite you can send as a link or a QR code.
An invite link expires after 7 days, or as soon as the channel is full. A channel holds 50 people.
You decide what an invited person can do:

Full member

They open, download and send.

Read-only

They come in read-only: they open and download, and do not send.
There is also a Members can invite too switch. Leave it off and only you bring people in. While a channel is read-only, only you can invite.

Managing invites

The channel’s share panel lists every active link and how many times each was used. Revoke a link and it stops working immediately. Create a new one whenever you want. A revoked link does not remove anyone who already joined.

Every new person earns everyone a pin

When someone who is new to Zas joins a channel you are in, every member of that channel gains one permanent extra pin. This stacks up to +20. On the free plan that takes you from 15 pins to as many as 35.

Pins

How pins pause the countdown.

Agents in a channel

You can let a coding agent use a channel you own. It gets that channel’s key, sends into it, and reads it only if you switch reading on. A channel with an agent shows the >_ mark next to its name, and a strip above the items naming each agent and what it may do. Remove an agent from there, or from Settings → Agents. An agent can use a channel your own account owns. You can also grant a channel you joined, but the agent gets in only after that channel’s owner allows it. As a channel owner, you see the request in the strip above the items, with Allow and Refuse. See Channels you joined. A channel an organization manages is out of reach, unless an administrator turns Agents in organization channels on in Permissions. With that on, your agent reaches the organization channels you are a member of. See Agents in an organization.

Leaving

Leaving a channel removes it from your list. Items you sent to it stay with the channel until they expire on their own.