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title: "TouchNet Ready/TLink"
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updated: 2026-02-25T01:11:23Z
published: 2026-02-25T01:11:23Z
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# TouchNet Ready/TLink

Slate is a TouchNet Ready Partner, which means that we support connecting to TouchNet using their TLink service (this is similar to connecting to a UPay site, but there's a web service component as well).

At present, TouchNet prefers to kick off a project for each TouchNet Ready implementation, with one or more phone meetings and a project document called a **Data Gathering Guide**. It is not necessary for us to join those meetings—the completed Data Gathering Guide contains all of the URLs and IDs that we need.

> [!WARNING]
> 📝 Note
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> The Touchnet Ready program is the only integration method that Touchnet supports at this time.

To integrate with TouchNet Ready /TLink:

Please provide the following information (via a [Support Ticket](/v1/docs/support-resources)):

- The completed Data Gathering Guide
- If there are multiple uPay sites, we need to know how to determine which site ID to send (e.g. use a particular site ID based on the selected round or program or payment account prompt value).
- If you need us to pass **custom information** to TouchNet, please indicate this in your initial ticket and outline which field(s) in TouchNet (e.g. `EXT_TRANS_ID`, `PAYER_ID` etc.)
  - Custom information is usually required when you are collecting 'Deposit' payments and TouchNet itself is integrating with your SIS (e.g. General Ledger updates).
  - Please make sure to point this out to us in your ticket and give us additional context.