Slate has something for everyone. Just about every Slate tool is open-ended and configurable.

We’ve assembled a list of some of the most common use cases for various roles at higher education institutions:

🪪 Admissions offices

• Build Slate-hosted applications with the Application Editor

• Review applications with the Reader

• Find the right records with the query builder

🤝 Advancement offices

• Use Slate tools to process gifts

• Process gift payments securely and natively with Slate Payments

• Use Slate to track fundraising campaigns

🎓 Advisors

• Coordinate appointments with students with Scheduler

• Automate communications to students with Deliver

📅 Event coordinators

• Schedule virtual and in-person events with the Events tool

• Host virtual events with Share

📣 Marketing

• Use Deliver as an all-in-one outreach tool encompassing:

  • Email

  • SMS

  • Voice

  • Print

  • Drip marketing, and more

• Use the branding editor to make Slate pages brand-standard

🔎 Analysts

• Use the query builder to find any data point in your database

• Use the report builder to aggregate data and identify trends

• Use Ping to track web activity on your sites and tie it to Slate records

💻 IT departments

• Quickly get yourself up to speed on Slate specs and security documentation

• Access performance dashboards for database-level stats

🏅 Scholarship offices

• Learn how to create a workflow to intake and review scholarship applications

🏦 Bursars offices

• Use Slate Payments to process payments

• Learn how to integrate external payment processors with Slate

🎒 High school counselors

• Use Slate.org to track your students’ applications

🛠️ More tools for any role

• Collect data with forms

• Import data with Upload Dataset

• Respond to inbound communications with Inbox

• Personalize forms and communications with Liquid markup

• Learn how to query your database

• Learn how to run a report

• Use Slate AI to get insights with natural language prompts