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title: "Slate Features"
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description: "An in-depth look at Slate's configurable tools and their applications across various institutional roles."
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# Slate Features

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](/docs/getting-started-with-applications)
- **Review applications** with [the Reader](/docs/reading-and-reviewing)
- **Find the right records** with [the query builder](/docs/queries)

## 🤝 Advancement offices

- Use [Slate tools to process gifts](/docs/gift-processing)
- Process gift payments securely and natively with [Slate Payments](/docs/payments)
- Use [Slate to track fundraising campaigns](/docs/campaigns)

## 🎓 Advisors

- Coordinate appointments with students with [Scheduler](/v1/docs/interviews-appointments)
- Automate communications to students with [Deliver](/docs/deliver-overview-student-success)

## 📅 Event coordinators

- Schedule virtual and in-person events with [the Events tool](/v1/docs/events)
- Host virtual events with [Share](/v1/docs/share-meeting)

## 📣 Marketing

- Use [Deliver](/docs/deliver) as an all-in-one outreach tool encompassing:
  - [Email](/docs/email)
  - [SMS](/docs/sms)
  - [Voice](/docs/voice)
  - [Print](/docs/print-real-world)
  - [Drip marketing](/docs/drip-and-dynamic-content), and more
- Use [the branding editor](/docs/branding) to make Slate pages brand-standard

## 🔎 Analysts

- Use the [query builder](/docs/queries) to find any data point in your database
- Use the [report builder](/v1/docs/reports) to aggregate data and identify trends
- Use [Ping](/v1/docs/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](/docs/database-security-privacy)
- Access [performance dashboards](/docs/database-maintenance) for database-level stats

## 🏅 Scholarship offices

- Learn how to [create a workflow](/v1/docs/workflows) to intake and review scholarship applications

## 🏦 Bursars offices

- Use [Slate Payments](/docs/payments) to process payments
- Learn how to [integrate external payment processors](/docs/external-payment-processors) with Slate

## 🎒 High school counselors

- Use [Slate.org](/v1/docs/slateorg) to track your students’ applications

## 🛠️ More tools for any role

- Collect data with [forms](/v1/docs/forms)
- Import data with [Upload Dataset](/v1/docs/upload-dataset-stages)
- Respond to inbound communications with [Inbox](/v1/docs/inbox-overview)
- Personalize forms and communications with [Liquid markup](/v1/docs/liquid-markup)
- Learn how to [query your database](/v1/docs/queries-overview)
- Learn how to [run a report](/v1/docs/reports)
- Use [Slate AI](/v1/docs/ai) to get insights with natural language prompts