Cascade — Changelog

Email automation, messaging workflows, analytics, and integrations

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2025-12-31 v0.0.2-alpha Added Campaigns & Messaging

Audience Segmentation, Templates, and SMS Support

  • Added Audience Segmentation, enabling targeted campaigns based on contact attributes, behaviors, and list membership.
  • Introduced a visual drag-and-drop email template editor for building responsive campaigns without writing HTML.
  • Added a library of sample email templates to accelerate campaign creation and onboarding.
  • Implemented template import functionality, allowing existing HTML templates to be uploaded and reused within Cascade.
  • Added contact import support, enabling bulk ingestion of contacts via CSV for faster audience setup.
  • Implemented SMS messaging, expanding Cascade beyond email to support multi-channel campaigns.
These additions significantly expand Cascade’s campaign-building capabilities and move the platform closer to full-feature parity with modern marketing automation tools.
2025-12-16 v0.0.1 Alpha Initial Release

🎉 Initial Alpha Release

The first alpha release of Cascade, Salloq’s multi-tenant marketing automation platform for email and SMS campaigns. This release establishes the complete foundation for event-driven marketing automation tightly integrated with Salloq E-commerce and POS.

Core Platform

  • Fully isolated multi-tenant SaaS architecture with company-scoped data access
  • Role-based permissions (owner, admin, editor, viewer)
  • Object-oriented PHP backend with modular service architecture
  • RESTful API with consistent JSON responses and rate limiting

Visual Automation Builder

  • Drag-and-drop workflow canvas inspired by modern marketing platforms
  • Trigger, Email, SMS, Delay, Conditional, and Action nodes
  • Event-based enrollment with real-time flow execution
  • Flow activation, pause, and persistence controls

Campaigns & Contacts

  • Email and SMS campaign creation with scheduling and test sends
  • HTML content editing with personalization variables
  • Centralized contact database with tags, lists, and custom properties
  • CSV import/export and bulk contact operations

Messaging & Delivery

  • Email provider support: SendGrid, Mailgun, Postmark, PHP mail fallback
  • SMS provider support: Twilio and Vonage (Nexmo)
  • Background message queue with retries and rate limiting
  • Open and click tracking with bounce handling

Analytics & Events

  • Real-time campaign and engagement analytics
  • 20+ predefined ecommerce and POS event types
  • Event-driven automation triggers with batching support
  • Interactive dashboards powered by Chart.js

Integrations & API

  • Native webhook integration with Salloq E-commerce and POS
  • Public REST API for flows, campaigns, contacts, events, and webhooks
  • Web-based API documentation with multi-language examples

Security & Compliance

  • Prepared statements, XSS protection, and encrypted credential storage
  • Security headers enabled (CSP, HSTS, frame protection)
  • GDPR-ready unsubscribe, export, and contact deletion workflows

Status

  • Platform State: Alpha
  • Deployment: Production-ready foundation
  • Audience: Internal use and early partners