Release 5 – May 31, 2026

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New Features and Enhancements

Cross-Portal Enhancements

Liaison's suite of portals work together to help you collect and manage applications. The CAS application, also referred to as the CAS Applicant Portal, is the system where applicants find and apply to your programs. You receive these applications in WebAdMIT or Liaison Outcomes, where you perform your review processes. The appearance of your program and your requirements are customized in the CAS Configuration Portal, where you establish the program-specific elements that your applicants will interact with. Additionally, your program may use one or more of the following tools and platforms:

API: a data integration tool.
CAS Applicant Gateway: a platform for applicants who have already submitted their CAS application to complete and upload additional materials requested by their programs.
CAS Liaison Analytics and Othot: advanced analytics solutions and data reporting tools.
CAS Liaison Letters: a platform for evaluators to submit their letters of recommendation.
Enrollment Marketing and TargetX: customer relationship management (CRM) systems for student lifecycle management.
Living Profile: a platform where students can connect their academic pursuits with their career aspirations.
SlideRoom: a platform for collecting digital portfolios.
Time2Track: a platform for tracking, verifying, and managing experiences.

Disclaimer: on rare occasions, a new feature or enhancement may be moved to a future release or otherwise subject to change.

Add URLs as a Program Attribute

This enhancement must be approved by the CAS association or UniCAS client for use in the next cycle. If activated, this enhancement will be available for all participating programs in the next cycle. CAS association and UniCAS clients: contact a member of your account team for more information or to enable this feature.

If configured by your CAS, you can now add your program's website URL as a program attribute in the CAS Configuration Portal. The URL will then display as a clickable link in the CAS Applicant Portal. This enhancement allows CASs to highlight program URLs in a program's key details area.

CAS Configuration Portal

CAS Applicant Portal

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.

Application Fee Calculator

For CASs on the CAS 3+ platform, this enhancement must be approved by the CAS association or UniCAS client for use in the current cycle. If activated, this enhancement is available for all participating programs. CAS association and UniCAS clients: contact a member of your account team for more information or to enable this feature.

Applicants can use an application fee calculator to learn what their application fees will be before they need to submit or pay for programs. They can also use the fee calculator to see how fee waivers or application coupons would affect their total payment. This enhancement empowers applicants earlier in the application process, enabling them to better understand the potential cost of applications.

To access the fee calculator, applicants can click the My Programs button in the top-right of the application, then click Calculate Fee.

WebAdMIT Enhancements

The following enhancements are now available in WebAdMIT. 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.

In Progress Applicant Report Available as XLS and CSV File Type

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 download In Progress applicant data as both an .xls and .csv file from the In Progress page (by clicking In Progress under the Applicants panel in the Menu Bar or by clicking In Progress from the Designations by Application Status panel on the dashboard). Previously, this was only available as an .xls file. Additionally, both file types will automatically be uploaded to SFTP sites. This enhancement allows you to manage applicant data in the format that best works for your data needs.

Coming Soon: Parent/Guardian One-to-Many Fields in Export Manager

Certain fields in the application allow applicants to enter more than one answer; for example, an applicant can have one experience, five experiences, or more. These are called “one-to-many” fields in WebAdMIT, and when you export these one-to-many fields, the data will appear in repeated columns with numeric suffixes (e.g., experience_name_0, experience_name_1, etc.).

Currently, if an applicant has more than one response for the following fields, the data does not populate in repeated columns as normal one-to-many fields do; instead, only one column of data is populated:

Parents/Guardians field grouping > County of Legal Residence Code field
Parents/Guardians field grouping > School Country Code field

Starting in late June 2026, these fields will export correctly as one-to-many fields. If your CAS uses these fields in exports and you previously downloaded this data, you should plan to re-download it to ensure that you are capturing all of the applicant's data.

Note that this data has always appeared correctly when viewing the Applicant Details page or running lists in the List Manager.

New Documentation for WebAdMIT

Please review the list of new and updated documentation, all accessible in the WebAdMIT Help Center.

Document	Details
Date Field Reference Guide	In WebAdMIT, applicant files contain various date fields. Some of these dates are affected by applicant activities, while others are affected by the CAS processing documents or other data points. You can review the most common applicant date fields in this guide. Note that you can use many of these dates when identifying new and updated applicants.
Simplifying Federal Change: How Liaison Supports Compliance and Adaptation	Liaison is committed to supporting you as you navigate evolving legal and regulatory landscapes. This article provides guidance on how Liaison's products can support your institution's approach to recent legislative changes.

Ongoing Maintenance

Please review the list of scheduled downtime/maintenance and product updates.

Event	Date	Details
Sandbox Environment Refresh	May 28, 2026	The WebAdMIT Sandbox environment (uat.webadmit.org) was refreshed with current (cleansed) production data and program configurations. Any test exports, custom fields, etc., in the current sandbox were overwritten. The next sandbox environment refresh is scheduled for June 25, 2026.

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Sandbox Environment Refresh

May 28, 2026

The WebAdMIT Sandbox environment (uat.webadmit.org) was refreshed with current (cleansed) production data and program configurations. Any test exports, custom fields, etc., in the current sandbox were overwritten.

The next sandbox environment refresh is scheduled for June 25, 2026.

Coming Soon!

Please review the list of upcoming events, including product updates and regional training opportunities.

Event	Date	Details
CAS 3+ Upgrade	2026	Liaison is excited to announce that in the 2026-2027 application cycle, all of our Centralized Application Services (CAS) will be upgraded to a new, mobile-first, and modern applicant portal that we call CAS 3+. Visit the CAS 3+ Upgrade page to learn more about its key benefits and a preview of the upgraded application.
experience: LIAISON \| Baltimore	June 8–10, 2026	Set sail with us to explore new strategies, uncover trends shaping the future, and dive into real stories of transformation from peers using Liaison's solutions at experience: LIAISON, June 8–10, 2026 in Baltimore, MD. Register now!
Shared Lookup Table Updates for Fall 2026	August 2026	Many fields in the CAS Applicant Portal contain predefined answer values that applicants can select; for example, the Country and County fields both have predefined answer values. These values are housed in shared "lookup tables" which are viewable in your CAS's/UniCAS's data dictionary file. Lookup table change requests can be sent to a member of your account team, who will compile and review these requests. New lookup table values will appear in the CAS Applicant Portal in August 2026 (subject to change). Visit the Shared Lookup Table Updates page for more information.

Event

Date

Details

CAS 3+ Upgrade

2026

Liaison is excited to announce that in the 2026-2027 application cycle, all of our Centralized Application Services (CAS) will be upgraded to a new, mobile-first, and modern applicant portal that we call CAS 3+. Visit the CAS 3+ Upgrade page to learn more about its key benefits and a preview of the upgraded application.

experience: LIAISON | Baltimore

June 8–10, 2026

Set sail with us to explore new strategies, uncover trends shaping the future, and dive into real stories of transformation from peers using Liaison's solutions at experience: LIAISON, June 8–10, 2026 in Baltimore, MD. Register now!

Shared Lookup Table Updates for Fall 2026

August 2026

Many fields in the CAS Applicant Portal contain predefined answer values that applicants can select; for example, the Country and County fields both have predefined answer values. These values are housed in shared "lookup tables" which are viewable in your CAS's/UniCAS's data dictionary file.

Lookup table change requests can be sent to a member of your account team, who will compile and review these requests. New lookup table values will appear in the CAS Applicant Portal in August 2026 (subject to change).

Visit the Shared Lookup Table Updates page for more information.