C9 Transact's New Release: Enhancing User Experience and Security

At Cumulo9, we are dedicated to continually improving our C9 Transact solution to meet and exceed our clients' expectations. We are excited to announce the latest version of C9 Transact, packed with many new features and enhancements designed to provide a more seamless and secure experience. Released mid-June 2024, here is a closer look at what you can experience from the latest release.

Moving from .NET Framework 4.8 to dotnet 8

One of the most significant changes in this release is the transition from .NET Framework 4.8 to dotnet 8. This transition reduces maintenance time, allowing our team to focus more on assisting our clients.

Key Features and Benefits

Our latest C9 Transact release is bundled with new features which provide significant and tangible benefits to our users. To keep things simple, we have listed the top 10 features introduced in the latest version of C9 Transact and, more importantly, what this means to you – the C9 Transact user.

1. Blazor-Based Dashboard Updates

Feature: New Dashboard Platform 

Benefit: The new Blazor-based Dashboard features updated pages and menus, providing faster, more user-friendly navigation and smoother UX. Users can now find the information they need more quickly, work with larger data sets more efficiently, and easily filter and segment their data.

2. Checksum Validation on DLLs

Feature: Increased Security

Benefit: This behind-the-scenes security check enhances fraud protection, ensuring the integrity of the DLLs used by C9 Transact. Ensuring that the files deployed to our platform are legitimate versions and untampered with in transit.

3. Bounce Stream Information

Feature: Bounce Stream Data in Dashboard 

Benefit: Users can now see which accounts are using “bounce to print” functionality and the frequency of this functionality over the past three months, improving visibility, customer service, financial insights, and efficiencies.

4. Retry Email Access

Feature: View and Update Retry Emails

Benefit: Admin users can now view and modify retry cycles for emails, providing greater control over email delivery processes.

5. Email Template Tests

Feature: Send Test Emails 

Benefit: Users can preview emails in their final format, streamlining the approval process, capturing approval history for better tracking, and making general improvements in your digital communications.

6. Enhanced Email Search

Feature: Improved Email Search and Filtering 

Benefit: Users can efficiently find specific emails by searching within defined time frames, making it quicker to find what you are looking for and providing an overall improvement in business efficiency.

7. Unsubscribe Header                  

Feature: Unsubscribe Header Compliance 

Benefit: It ensures compliance with Google's requirements, improving email deliverability and reducing spam folder incidents, helping to ensure your essential emails reach the inbox.

8. SPF, DKIM, and Sender Domain Access

Feature: Access for Customer Admins 

Benefit: Customer admins now have the ability to view security settings and domain records directly, enhancing your organisation’s security management.

9. Special Characters in Body Files

Feature: Quoted-Printable Encoding 

Benefit: Simplifies the input of special characters, such as Te Reo macrons, improving data accuracy and personalisation.

10. User Audit Screen Enhancements

Feature: Account Access Recording 

Benefit: Every user action is now recorded, enhancing security and accountability and helping to improve overall governance.

Developer Insights 

To find out more, we went straight to the source and interviewed Leo Van Delden, Cumulo9’s Development Manager, to hear what he has to say about this release:

“This C9 Transact release has given us the opportunity to make some dramatic improvements to the overall user experience that our clients will have using the dashboard. This is one of the more significant releases we have made in several years now.”

Leo also highlighted the broader impact of these enhancements:

“So much more functionality is now available, what we have listed here is just the tip of the iceberg.”

To our existing C9 Transact users, we trust you are enjoying the new release, making the most of the new features and seeing the benefits to your organisation. Thank you for your continued support. For those of you who have yet to experience C9 Transact or if this article has raised any questions and would like to learn more, please contact us at +64 9 377 8885 or email support@cumulo9.com.