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title: "Configuring Slate to Collect Application Fees"
slug: "collecting-application-fees"
description: "Learn how to set up Slate Payments to accept application fees in Slate. "
tags: ["Application Building", "Payments"]
updated: 2026-02-24T21:52:11Z
published: 2026-02-24T21:52:11Z
canonical: "knowledge.technolutions.net/collecting-application-fees"
---

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# Configuring Slate to Collect Application Fees

> [!NOTE]
> 📚 Part of the series **Application Building Phase I:** [**Core components**](https://knowledge.technolutions.net/docs/application-building-checklist#phase-1-core-components)

You can use **Slate Payments** to collect a variety of payments, including application fees, enrollment deposits, and event related fees.

With Slate Payments, you can also collect payments on a form using a payment widget. The payment widget adds the option of charging payments for a dataset record as well as a person or application record.

You can also use external payment processors to collect payments in Slate.

> [!NOTE]
> ➡️ [Set up payments in Slate](/docs/overview-of-payments-in-slate).

When you’ve established a payment process for your database, continue to the next application-building section.

If you’re looking to set up a system for **collecting fee waiver codes**, [we’ve got you covered](/v1/docs/free-text-field-for-application-fee-waiver-codes).

## ➡️ Up next: Application Building Phase 2: Application Structure

Having established—among the other basic components covered in this section—the ability to collect payments, you can start **building out the interface** that applicants will use to complete your application.

> [!NOTE]
> 📚 **Next article in this series:** [Application Building Phase II: The Slate-Hosted Application](/v1/docs/application-building-phase-2-slate-hosted-application)