Slate
Getting Started

Introduction

Overview of the Slate platform and its core capabilities.

Slate is a customer relationship management and workflow platform. It provides pipelines for sales, support, hiring, and any multi step process you need to manage.

Core Capabilities

  • Build custom pipelines with stages, statuses, and custom fields on a Kanban board
  • Manage contacts for people and companies across your workflows
  • Handle conversations via email directly inside your pipeline with a shared inbox
  • Automate workflows with multi step automations including emails, stage changes, webhooks, conditions, and delays
  • Create proposals and invoices with PDF generation and e-signatures
  • Track tasks with list and calendar views
  • Analyze performance with reports and analytics dashboards
  • Integrate with external tools via API, webhooks, CSV import, and embeddable web forms

How Slate is organized

Organization
└── Company
    ├── Pipelines (Sales, Support, Hiring)
    │   └── Stages (Open, Proposal, Won, Lost)
    │        │   ├── Statuses (optional substeps: Draft, Created, Sent)
    │        └───┴── Items (deals, tickets, candidates)
    │
    ├── Contacts (people and companies)
    ├── Tasks (followups, calls, meetings)
    └── Settings (teams, integrations, billing)

Each company is a self contained workspace with its own pipelines, contacts, and settings. An organization can contain multiple companies.

When you create a company, you select a region that determines where your data is stored. Once set, your region cannot be modified.

Authentication

Slate uses passwordless authentication exclusively.

Email passcodesA one time code sent to your email
Passkeys / WebAuthnBiometric or hardware key authentication

Plans

Individual1 user, core pipeline features
ProTeams, automations, reports, e-signatures, duplicate detection
BusinessAnalytics, advanced scoring, unlimited automations
EnterpriseCustom limits, priority support

All plans start with a 14-day free trial with no credit card required.

After the trial expires, access to pipeline data is suspended until you select a plan. Companies that remain unsubscribed for 30 days after trial expiry are permanently deleted.

Referral program

Existing users can generate a referral code and share it. When a new user applies the code during their trial:

RefereeExtended 60 day trial instead of 14 days
ReferrerSubscription credit equal to the referee's per user monthly plan price, up to 10 referrals per year