Turn on Teams direct messages for commissions
The one-time Azure step that upgrades commission 'ask' messages from email to real Teams 1:1 chats: grant the Current app Chat permissions and re-approve for the organization.
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When a rep asks their manager about a commission line (the Send to Teams button on a line in My statements), or a manager nudges a rep from the Team tracker, the message carries a link to the opportunity, and the signed quote when there is one. It goes out one of two ways. Out of the box, and until an admin does the step below, it's a real email from the sender's own mailbox. That always works, so nobody is ever blocked. The upgrade turns those same asks into Teams 1:1 direct messages, which most teams prefer. After each send, a message tells you which way it went.
Note
You don't have to do this to use commissions
Everything in Commissions works with the email fallback. This step is purely about the delivery channel for the "ask" messages. Do it whenever your Microsoft admin has a moment, and the path silently switches from email to Teams for everyone.
The one-time admin step
- 1Have a Microsoft administrator open Azure / Microsoft Entra IDThis is a Microsoft-side change on the Current app registration your workspace already uses for Microsoft 365. It needs someone who can grant admin consent for your organization.
- 2Grant the Current app permission to send Teams chatsAdd the Microsoft Graph permissions Chat.Create and Chat.ReadWrite to the app as Delegated permissions, then grant admin consent for the whole organization. Then re-approve Current from the Microsoft 365 card on Settings › Integrations so the new permissions take effect for everyone.
- 3That's it, the switch is automaticOnce the permission is granted and consented, the next commission ask goes out as a real Teams direct message instead of an email. There's nothing to change inside Current; it detects the new capability and uses it.
Tip
If Teams still isn't sending
If a send says "Sent by email. Teams chat isn't approved for your organization yet", the permissions were added but admin consent wasn't granted, or Current wasn't re-approved afterwards; those are separate clicks. Grant consent, re-approve, and check that the sender has connected their own Microsoft 365 account in Current (Settings › Your settings › Microsoft 365), since a Teams message is sent under the sender's own Microsoft identity. See the Microsoft 365 integration articles for the connection basics.
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