In this article, you will find information about the personal settings options within the Coffee Break app for Slack users:

You can find the Crewting app in Slack here: Apps (left navigation bar in Slack) - Coffee-Break Crewting - Home - Personal Coffee-Break Settings

Pause Coffee-Breaks

You can pause coffee breaks at any time via the personal Coffee-Break settings in the Coffee Break app.

1. Open the personal settings
2. Click on “Pause all Coffee-Breaks”
3. Select a start date for your break (optional)
4. Select an end date for your break
5. Click on Create

During your break, you will not be matched for any new Coffee-Beaks, and no Coffee-Breaks will be scheduled during this period.

Deactivate Coffee-Breaks pause

1. Open your personal settings
2. Click on “Cancel pause”

Individual preferences

You can save individual preferences for each Coffee-Break configuration.

The following settings are possible:

Pause individual Coffee-Breaks

Set individual Coffee-Break frequency

Pause for a specific number of Coffee-Breaks

Deactivate individual Coffee-Break settings

Pause individual Coffee-Breaks

1. Click on Manage preferences
2. Select "Pause this Coffee-Break" from the drop-down menu
3. Click on Next
4. Select a start date for your break (optional)
5. Select an end date for your break
6. Click Create

Set individual Coffee-Break frequency

1. Click Manage settings
2. Select “Set up your custom Coffee-Break frequency” from the drop-down menu
3. Click Next
4. Select your desired frequency.
5. Click Create

Pause for a specific number of Coffee-Breaks

1. Click on Manage settings
2. Select “Pause for a specific number of Coffee-Breaks” from the drop-down menu
3. Click on Next
4. Select how many Coffee-Breaks you want to pause
5. Click on Create

Deactivate individual Coffee-Break settings

The functions “Pause individual Coffee-Break,” “Set individual Coffee-Break frequency,” and “Pause for a specific number of Coffee-Breaks” can be deactivated again as follows:

1. Click on Manage settings
2. Select “No individual preference” from the drop-down menu
3. Click on Next

Updated on: 23/09/2025