Release 8 – August 30, 2026
New Features and Enhancements
CAS Applicant Portal Enhancements
Disclaimer: on rare occasions, a new feature or enhancement may be moved to a future release or otherwise subject to change.
Identify Lab and Lecture Courses During Professional Transcript Entry (PTE) Approval Process
For CASs on the CAS 3+ platform that use Professional Transcript Entry (PTE), this enhancement is automatically available for use. No action is required on the part of any association, school, or program. Contact a member of your account team for more information.
Some CASs allow applicants to identify if their science coursework is considered lab only or lecture with lab. For these CASs that also use the Professional Transcript Entry (PTE) feature (where Liaison's PTE team enters an applicant's coursework on their behalf), applicants can now identify their lab and lecture coursework during the PTE approval process. Previously, applicants could not do this without contacting customer service. This enhancement ensures that applicants can fully review and edit their coursework within the application.
Liaison Outcomes Enhancements
The following enhancements are now available in Liaison Outcomes. If you have any questions about these features, contact a member of your account team or support.
Disclaimer: on rare occasions, a new feature or enhancement may be moved to a future release or otherwise subject to change.
Application Touchpoints Now Available in Segments
Starting September 7, this enhancement is automatically available for use by all CASs and participating programs. No action is required on the part of any association, school, or program. Contact a member of your account team for more information.
You can now use application touchpoints when building segments from the Applications Grid. This enhancement helps you identify applications based on activity like emails, texts, and other communication related to the application. It also helps isolate applications that had phase changes during a specific time frame, even if they've since moved to another phase.
This type of segmenting helps you target campaigns and Quick Messages to more specific groups of applicants.
Funnel Stage Change Touchpoints
Starting September 7, this enhancement is automatically available for use by all CASs and participating programs. No action is required on the part of any association, school, or program. Contact a member of your account team for more information.
Funnel stage changes can now be tracked as touchpoints, making it easier to understand and segment contacts based on their movement through the enrollment funnel. To make this work, first configure a funnel property to be tracked as a touchpoint.
Then, changes to that property are recorded in Contact Activity and can be used when building segments. You can identify contacts who moved into a specific funnel stage during a selected timeframe, even if they have since moved to another stage.
This enhancement provides greater visibility into how contacts progress through the funnel and can help you target follow-up communications based on recent movement.
Building Contact Segments Based on Payment Activity
Starting September 7, this enhancement is automatically available for use by all CASs and participating programs. No action is required on the part of any association, school, or program. Contact a member of your account team for more information.
You can now use payment activity touchpoints when building contact segments. This allows you to identify contacts based on payment activity and combine payment criteria with other contact touchpoints when creating targeted segments.