diff --git a/example/example.hs b/example/example.hs
--- a/example/example.hs
+++ b/example/example.hs
@@ -9,6 +9,9 @@
 import Network.Wai.Handler.Warp
 import Servant
 import Servant.EDE
+import Text.EDE.Filters ((@:),Term)
+import qualified Data.HashMap.Strict as Map
+import Data.Text (Text, chunksOf)
 
 -- * Using 'Tpl' for rendering CSS templates
 
@@ -47,9 +50,12 @@
 api :: Proxy API
 api = Proxy
 
+filters :: [(Text,Term)]
+filters = ["toChars" @: (chunksOf 1)]
+
 main :: IO ()
 main = do
-  loadTemplates api "example"
+  loadTemplates api filters "example"
   run 8082 (serve api $ styleServer :<|> userServer)
 
 -- You can now head to:
@@ -58,6 +64,21 @@
 -- http://localhost:8082/style.css
 -- to see 'HTML' and 'Tpl' + 'CSS' in action,
 -- respectively.
+--
+-- Example output:
+--
+-- curl -i -H 'Accept: text/html' http://localhost:8082/user
+-- HTTP/1.1 200 OK
+-- Transfer-Encoding: chunked
+-- Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2016 19:41:25 GMT
+-- Server: Warp/3.2.8
+-- Content-Type: text/html;charset=utf-8
+--
+-- <ul>
+-- <li><strong>Name</strong>: lambdabot</li>
+-- <li><strong>Age</strong>: 35</li>
+-- <li><strong>Chunked Name</strong>: ["l","a","m","b","d","a","b","o","t"]</li>
+-- </ul>
 --
 -- Feel free to tweak the content of the template files
 -- as well as the 'User' and 'CSSData' values in this program
diff --git a/servant-ede.cabal b/servant-ede.cabal
--- a/servant-ede.cabal
+++ b/servant-ede.cabal
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 name:                servant-ede
-version:             0.5.1
+version:             0.6
 synopsis:            Combinators for rendering EDE templates in servant web applications
 description:
   Combinators for rendering EDE templates in servant web applications.
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
 license-file:        LICENSE
 author:              Alp Mestanogullari
 maintainer:          alpmestan@gmail.com
-copyright:           2015 Alp Mestanogullari
+copyright:           2015-2016 Alp Mestanogullari
 category:            Web
 build-type:          Simple
 extra-source-files:  README.md
@@ -29,23 +29,23 @@
     , Servant.EDE.Internal.Validate
 
   build-depends:
-      aeson >= 0.8 && <0.10
+      aeson
     , base >=4.7 && <5
-    , bytestring >= 0.10 && <0.11
-    , filepath >= 1.2 && <1.5
-    , ede >= 0.2 && <0.3
-    , either >= 4.0 && <4.5
-    , http-media >= 0.6 && <0.7
-    , http-types >= 0.8 && <0.9
-    , semigroups >= 0.16 && <0.17
-    , servant >= 0.4 && <0.6
-    , text >= 1.0 && <1.3
-    , transformers >= 0.4 && <0.5
-    , unordered-containers >= 0.2 && <0.3
-    , vector >= 0.9 && <0.11
-    , xss-sanitize >= 0.3 && <0.4
+    , bytestring
+    , filepath
+    , ede
+    , either
+    , http-media
+    , http-types
+    , semigroups
+    , servant
+    , text
+    , transformers
+    , unordered-containers
+    , vector
+    , xss-sanitize
 
-  ghc-options:         -O2 -Wall
+  ghc-options:         -Wall
   hs-source-dirs:      src
   default-language:    Haskell2010
 
@@ -55,9 +55,11 @@
   hs-source-dirs: example
   default-language: Haskell2010
   build-depends:
-      base >= 4.7 && <5
+      base
     , ede
     , http-media
     , servant-server
     , servant-ede
-    , warp >= 3.0
+    , text
+    , unordered-containers
+    , warp
diff --git a/src/Servant/EDE.hs b/src/Servant/EDE.hs
--- a/src/Servant/EDE.hs
+++ b/src/Servant/EDE.hs
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@
 import Control.Monad.IO.Class
 import Data.Aeson (Object, Value(..))
 import Data.Foldable (fold)
-import Data.HashMap.Strict (HashMap, (!))
+import Data.HashMap.Strict (HashMap, (!),fromList)
 import Data.Proxy
 import Data.Semigroup
 import Data.Text (Text)
@@ -69,11 +69,13 @@
 import System.FilePath
 import System.IO.Unsafe
 import Text.EDE
+import Text.EDE.Filters (Term)
 import Text.HTML.SanitizeXSS
 
 import qualified Data.HashMap.Strict as HM
 import qualified Data.Vector         as V
 
+type Filter = (Text,Term)
 -- | This function initializes a global
 --   template store (i.e a 'Templates' value) and fills it with
 --   the resulting compiled templates if all of them are compiled
@@ -95,14 +97,17 @@
 -- compiled template store, if successfully compiled.
 loadTemplates :: (Reify (TemplateFiles api), Applicative m, MonadIO m)
               => Proxy api
+              -> [Filter] -- ^ list of (Text,Term) pairs. Pass [] to use just the standard library
               -> FilePath -- ^ root directory for the templates
               -> m Errors
-loadTemplates proxy dir = do
+loadTemplates proxy fpairs dir = do
+  let flts = fromList fpairs
   res <- loadTemplates' proxy dir
   case res of
     Left errs  -> return errs
     Right tpls -> do
-      liftIO $ putMVar __template_store tpls
+      let tplfs = TemplatesAndFilters tpls flts
+      liftIO $ putMVar __template_store tplfs
       return []
 
 loadTemplates' :: (Reify (TemplateFiles api), Applicative m, MonadIO m)
@@ -190,13 +195,16 @@
 
 instance (KnownSymbol file, Accept ct, ToObject a) => MimeRender (Tpl ct file) a where
   mimeRender _ val = encodeUtf8 . result (error . show) id $
-    render templ (toObject val)
+    renderWith flts templ (toObject val)
 
     where templ = tmap ! filename
           filename = symbolVal (Proxy :: Proxy file)
-          tmap = templateMap $ unsafePerformIO (readMVar __template_store)
+          tmplfs = unsafePerformIO (readMVar __template_store)
+          tmap = templateMap $ _templates tmplfs
+          flts = _filters tmplfs
 
-__template_store :: MVar Templates
+
+__template_store :: MVar TemplatesAndFilters
 __template_store = unsafePerformIO newEmptyMVar
 
 -- | 'HTML' content type, but more than just that.
@@ -319,6 +327,13 @@
   mempty = Templates mempty
 
   a `mappend` b = a <> b
+
+-- A data type that holds both the compiled templates and
+-- any passed-in custom filters
+data TemplatesAndFilters = TemplatesAndFilters {
+                                  _templates :: Templates
+                                , _filters   :: HashMap Text Term
+                                }
 
 tpl :: FilePath -> Template -> Templates
 tpl fp t = Templates $ HM.singleton fp t