SeaTalk features revolve around your employees. You can manually add new employees to your organization and edit any outdated information regarding your existing employees.

Permissions needed

• Management Scope: ensure the department you want to add and edit employees for is included
• Employee: Edit/Add permissions

Before you start

• Understand the details of your employees. You cannot add employees without their work email and full name.
• Understand if they are part of a department. If they are, you may want to set up your departments before adding them.

Add a new employee

If you want to add multiple employees at one go, learn how to import employees to SeaTalk instead.

To add a new employee:

• In the SeaTalk Admin Center, navigate to Organization.
• In the upper right, click Add Employee.
• In the right panel, enter your employee’s information. Learn more about these default fields.
• To enter more information, click Go to details and continue to add more information. This will redirect you to a new page with all fields available. Learn more about these default fields.
• By default, an email notification will be sent to the employee if they haven’t downloaded SeaTalk. To prevent this email from being sent, clear the Send Email Invitation checkbox.
• Click Add. If you want to add another employee immediately, click Add & Next instead.

Edit an existing employee

• In the SeaTalk Admin Center, navigate to Organization.
• In the left panel, enter the name of the employee you want to edit and in the dropdown menu, select their name.
• In the right panel, click Edit.
• In the field you want, update the information. If the field you want to edit isn’t in the panel, click Go to details and continue to add more information. This will redirect you to a new page with all fields available.
• Once done, click Save.

Bulk edit existing employees

If you’ve many employees and fields to update, you can also import to update information of existing employees.

• In the SeaTalk Admin Center, navigate to Organization.
• Locate the employees you want to edit:
• To filter employees by their status, click the Employee Status dropdown menu and select the status you want.
• To filter employees by department, click the department you want in the left panel.
• Select the checkboxes next to the employees you want to edit.
• Once selected, click the Quick Action dropdown menu in the upper right and select Update.
• In the dialog box, select the fields you want to update:
• Department:
• Select Reset current department to overwrite the employees’ current department.
• Select Add to current department to add the employee to another department. 
• Search and select the department you want.
• Job Title: search and select the job title you want for all selected employees.
• Office Location: search and select the office location you want for all selected employees.
• Report To: search and select the direct supervisor you want for all selected employees.
• Click Update. All employees you selected will now be updated.