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title: "Introduction to the Slate-Hosted Application"
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updated: 2026-03-09T18:27:10Z
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> ## Documentation Index
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# Introduction to the Slate-Hosted Application

> [!NOTE]
> 📚 Part of the series **Application Building Phase II:**[**The Slate-hosted Application**](/v1/docs/application-building-phase-2-slate-hosted-application)

Your Slate for Admission database comes with a **Slate-hosted application,**a fully customizable online application that allows applicants to submit information, upload materials, and pay application fees.

![](https://cdn.us.document360.io/cd8ea7a6-07f3-4846-a554-627ac016d3e3/Images/Documentation/Slate-hosted application.png)

The articles in this second phase of the [application-building process](/v1/docs/application-building-checklist) are organized in the following sections:

1. [The Application Editor:](/v1/docs/introduction-to-application-structure#the-application-editor) Use the Application Editor to configure the Slate-hosted application’s overall structure.
2. [Application Pages:](/v1/docs/introduction-to-application-structure#application-pages) Customize the application’s individual pages.
3. [Application Submission Requirements:](/v1/docs/introduction-to-application-structure#application-submission-requirements) Establish application logic to prevent submission without certain information.
4. [Application Testing](/v1/docs/introduction-to-application-structure#testing-your-application): Make sure the applicant experience is smooth.

## The Application Editor

Configure high-level settings for the Slate-hosted application in **Database → Application Editor.**Here, you’ll find a list of your application bases, and, under each base, the base’s application rounds.

**📖 Further reading:**[Introduction to The Application Editor](/v1/docs/introduction-application-editor)

![](https://cdn.us.document360.io/cd8ea7a6-07f3-4846-a554-627ac016d3e3/Images/Documentation/Application Editor(1).png)

## Application creation form

If you have a scholarship, honors application, or specific program that doesn’t require the full application treatment, you can let applicants submit their application as a single form. This form can also work as a shorter version of your primary application (like a fast app).

Save time by importing our [example application creation form](/v1/docs/application-creation-form) into your database.

![](https://cdn.us.document360.io/cd8ea7a6-07f3-4846-a554-627ac016d3e3/Images/Documentation/Application creation form(1).png)

## Application pages

By default, the Slate-hosted application comes with a number of **pages**that applicants move between as they fill out their information.

These include:

- Instructions
- Personal background
- Enrollment information
- Education history
- Test scores
- References
- Relationships
- Employment history
- Sports
- Activities/interests
- Signature
- Review

If these pages don’t collect the information you want applicants to provide, they can in almost every case be overridden with custom pages.

And if you don’t see a page listed here that you’d like to see, you can create new ones as needed.

**📖 Further reading:**[Introduction to Slate-hosted application pages](/v1/docs/custom-application-pages-overview)

#### Customizing the Slate-hosted application

The pages of the Slate-hosted application are customized with the **form builder**, a simple drag-and-drop experience that is likely familiar to you by now.

![](https://cdn.us.document360.io/cd8ea7a6-07f3-4846-a554-627ac016d3e3/Images/Documentation/Editing application pages with the form builder.gif)

## Application submission requirements

You can warn applicants that they’re missing required information with **application logic**.

**📖 Further reading:** [Introduction to Submission Requirements](/v1/docs/submission-requirements-hard-and-soft-fails)

![](https://cdn.us.document360.io/cd8ea7a6-07f3-4846-a554-627ac016d3e3/Images/Documentation/Hard and soft fails.png)

## Testing your application

Before you go live with your Slate-hosted application, test it thoroughly by **impersonating an applicant**.

To preview the Slate-hosted application as the applicant would see it:

1. Go to **Records**.
2. Select the default test record, **Alexander Hamilton**.
3. Select the **Application**tab (the default name is **[Your University] Application**).
4. Select **Impersonate > Applications.**

![](https://cdn.us.document360.io/cd8ea7a6-07f3-4846-a554-627ac016d3e3/Images/Documentation/Impersonate application.png)
5. Explore the application as the applicant would see it.

As you build out your application, this is a tool you will likely come back to repeatedly.

**📖 Further reading:** [Application Testing](/v1/docs/application-testing)

## ➡️ Next up: The Application Editor

Our first stop in our tour of the Slate-hosted application is the **Application Editor**, where we’ll see the standard Slate-hosted application pages and learn how to configure them**.**

> [!NOTE]
> 📚 Next article in this series:****[Introduction to the Application Editor](/v1/docs/introduction-application-editor)