A primer on the two fundamental concepts in Slate applications: periods and rounds.

Learn how to take the first step toward your Slate application: creating application periods (essentially: whether an application is "on" or "off").

The second step in the application building phase of your Slate application: creating an application round.

When building out the Slate-hosted application, several techniques are available to manage application deadlines, including round settings, prompt settings, or filters within custom application pages and/or submission requirements.  Round Dead...

Create additional application-scoped fields to collect data on your Slate application.

Materials are a data structure in Slate that store documents on a record. Examples include include transcripts, letters of recommendations, and essays.

📚 Part of the series Application Building Phase I: Core components Now that we’ve learned the basics of materials , we can create a new one in our database. Creating a new material To create a new material: Go to Database → Materia...

📚 Part of the series Application Building Phase I: Core components As established in Materials Overview , materials can be uploaded to the person's record in the following ways: The applicant uploads the material on their Applicant Sta...

📚 Part of the series Application Building Phase I: Core components You can create a special form that appears on documents that lets you enter custom data about a material. This data is also known as material metadata . The fields o...

If you have one or more applications hosted in Slate, you may be interested in freezing the application data as it existed at the time of submission for historical archiving and auditing purposes.  Following the submission of an applicatio...

📚 Part of the series Application Building Phase I: Core components So far in this section, you’ve created: Application periods and rounds Application-scoped fields Application materials While you haven’t yet created a S...

📚 Part of the series Application Building Phase I: 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 c...