# Pull your Slate Reader and checklists into your systems

> Get the records in a Reader bin, your Reader queue or an application's checklist items from Slate with one API call. A workflow can check your Awaiting Materials bin each weekday morning and email you what each applicant still owes.

Page: https://fous.com/automate/slate
Updated: 2026-11-12

Works with your own Slate account. Fous is an independent product.

## What you can build on Slate

### Get the records in a Reader bin

Opens Search in Reader, filters by the bin you name and reads the list of records in that stage of the workflow.

- Takes: Bin name, workflow (optional)
- Returns: Record name, bin, queue assigned to, count of records

### Check an application's checklist

Opens one application record and reads its checklist: each item's Details, Status and Date, including Received Copy and Hidden items staff can see.

- Takes: Applicant name or Slate ID
- Returns: Item name, status (Received, Awaiting, Waived, Received Copy, Hidden), date

### Get your Reader queue

Opens Queue in Reader and reads the records currently assigned to your account for review.

- Takes: Nothing
- Returns: Record name, bin, count of records

### Move a record to another bin

Opens a record in Reader, uses Edit Bin/Queue to place it in the bin you name and confirms the change.

- Takes: Applicant name or Slate ID, bin name
- Returns: Record name, previous bin, new bin

## Automate Slate with a workflow

A [workflow](/product/workflows) runs your methods as one process, with nobody at the screen. A schedule or a call from your own system starts it, the steps run in order, and the result arrives in your inbox or in the systems you already use.

### Applications in Awaiting Materials, every weekday morning

Starts: Every weekday at 7:30

1. Get the records in the Awaiting Materials bin.
2. For each record, check the application's checklist.
3. Keep the items with status Awaiting.
4. Email you the list, one line per applicant with the missing items.

### Weekly count of records in each review bin

Starts: Every Monday at 8:00

1. For each bin you name, get the records in that Reader bin.
2. Compare the counts with last week's run.
3. Post bin, count and change since last week to your webhook.

### Newly received checklist items for your queue

Starts: Every day at 16:00

1. Get your Reader queue.
2. For each record, check the application's checklist.
3. Keep the items marked Received that were not Received on the last run.
4. Email you each applicant with the items that arrived.

You can run a workflow by hand on every plan, Free included. Schedules and webhook triggers come with the paid plans, from $29 a month.

## Once built, one call from your code

Once you have built a [method](/product/methods), it is one POST to /v1/runs from your backend, or a tool an AI agent calls over MCP. This is what “Get the records in a Reader bin” would look like.

Example request:

```
curl https://api.fous.com/v1/runs \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $FOUS_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "method": "apply.example.edu/get_reader_bin_records",
    "input": {
      "bin": "Ready for Decision"
    }
  }'
```

Example response:

```
{
  "status": "completed",
  "data": {
    "bin": "Ready for Decision",
    "records": [
      {
        "name": "Jordan Acme",
        "bin": "Ready for Decision",
        "queue": null
      }
    ],
    "count": 1
  }
}
```

An example with invented data, not a ready-made endpoint. The method exists in your organization once you build it, and its name, inputs and fields follow your request.

## Slate’s own options

Slate's way out for data is its queries. A user with the Administrator (All Access) role can turn any Configurable Joins query into a web service returning JSON, XML, Excel or CSV, or schedule it to push data to a remote web service or SFTP server. Without such a query, staff work in Reader and on records by hand.

| Option | What it covers | What it takes |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Query web services | A saved Configurable Joins query called over HTTPS, returning JSON, XML, Excel or CSV. | Administrator (All Access) role, a User Token or Username grantee. 300 requests and 300 seconds per database in any 5 minutes. |
| Scheduled exports | A query run on a delivery window and pushed to a remote web service, or to an SFTP server through a Service Account (Remote). | A query set up by an administrator, a destination endpoint or SFTP server. |
| Slate by hand | Reader bins, queues and review forms, records and their checklists, one screen at a time. | A Slate user account at your institution, with the permissions and populations your administrator grants. |

Read on November 12, 2026: [Exporting data with web services](https://knowledge.technolutions.net/docs/exporting-data-with-web-services), [User accounts](https://knowledge.technolutions.net/docs/user-accounts), [Reader overview](https://knowledge.technolutions.net/docs/reader-overview).

## Signing in to Slate

Staff usually sign in to Slate through their institution's single sign-on, with whatever second step the campus adds. External users sign in at the External Login URL with a Slate password, and Slate's own MFA texts a code on an unrecognized browser. With Fous you sign in once through that sign-in with your own account, and the login is sealed with AES-256.

## Worth knowing

- **Your permissions decide what a method sees**: Population permissions limit which records each user can open, and realms limit objects further. A method reads only the bins, records and checklists your account can.
- **Web services need an administrator**: Only a user with the Administrator (All Access) role can grant Web Service access to a query, and each database is limited to 300 requests and 300 seconds of web service time in any 5 minutes.
- **Staff see checklist statuses applicants do not**: Applicants see Received, Awaiting and Waived. Staff also see Received Copy, shown to applicants as Received, and Hidden items, which applicants never see.
- **Bins come from your workflows**: Bin names such as New, In Progress or Ready for Decision are set in each Workflow, so a method takes the bin name your office uses as an input.

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## Frequently asked questions

### Does Slate have an API?

Through its queries. A Slate user with the Administrator (All Access) role can expose any Configurable Joins query as a web service in JSON, XML, Excel or CSV, or schedule it to push to a remote endpoint or SFTP, within 300 requests per database in 5 minutes.

### Can I export the records in a Reader bin?

Yes. In Reader, Search filters by bin and offers Build Query for the results. With Fous, you can build a method that reads that list and returns it as JSON whenever your code or a workflow calls it.

### How do I see which checklist items an applicant is missing?

Open the application record and read its checklist: items with status Awaiting are still missing. Each item also shows its Details and a Date.

### Can I use Slate's web services without an administrator?

No. Only a user with the Administrator (All Access) role can create, change or remove a grantee with Web Service access on a query. Other users can still share queries without Web Service access.

### Is Fous affiliated with Technolutions?

No. Fous is an independent product. You use it with your own Slate user account, and a method reads and does only what that account can.

Fous is an independent product: it is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by the operator of Slate (Technolutions). The name is used only to say which system this page is about. Something here wrong or out of date? Write to legal@fous.com.