Our Products & Services
Getting Started
First Time Setup
Getting Started With Jobs
Getting Started with Accounts
Getting Started with Inventory
Getting Started with Ticketing
Setting Sonar up for Billing
Baseline Configuration
How To: Using Sonar's Customer Portal
User Specific Resources
Accounts
Account Groups: Overview & Example Use Cases
Account List View: Overview
Account Management View: Overview
Account Overview Customization
Account Statuses: Overview & Example Use Cases
Account Types: Overview & Example Use Cases
Anchor & Linked Serviceable Addresses: Overview and Best Practices
Archiving an Account: Overview
CPUC Fixed Broadband Deployment by Address
Child Accounts: Best Practices & How Tos
Creating a New Account
Direct Messages: Overview
Disconnecting an Account
Disconnection Reason Management: Overview
Exploring Task Groups
FCC Broadband Data Collection (BDC) Filings: How Sonar Can Help
FCC Data Exports: General Overview and Usage
Future Serviceable Addresses: Overview
Lead Intake Form Processing
Notes: Best Practices & Use Cases
Scheduled Events: Overview & Use Cases
Serviceable Addresses: Overview and Usage
Specify Account ID upon Creation
Tasks & Task Templates: Overview
Using Sonar's FCC Broadband Label Generation Tool
Billing
ACH Batching: Overview
Accounts in Vacation Mode
Avalara: Overview & Setup
Batch Payments & Deposit Slips: Overview
Billing Calculator
Billing Defaults
Billing Settings
Building Packages
Building a Data Service
Canadian ACH tool
Changing Service Pricing in Sonar: Best Practices
Configure Service Eligibility Criteria: Overview
Considerations When Using Avalara with Voice Services
Creating Discounts for Services and Packages
Delinquency Billing Best Practices
Delinquency Exclusions: Overview
Dual Data Services: Overview
Email Invoice Batch: Overview
General Ledger Codes: Overview
General Transactions: Best Practices
How Sonar Prorates Billing
How to Take Bank Account Payments
How to Use SKUs: Overview
How to: Adding a Service to an Account
Invoice Templates: Overview
Leveraging PayPal as a Payment Method in Sonar
Manual Transactions
Multi-Month Billing & Multi-Month Services
Print to Mail
Printed Invoice Batches: Overview
Reversals and Refunds: Overview
Services: Overview
Setting Up Payment Methods and Taking Payments
Setting up Bank Account & Credit Card Processors
Taxes Setup
Usage Based Billing Policies: Overview and Usage
Usage Based Billing Policy Free Periods: Overview and Usage
Using Tax Exemptions - How To
Communication
Communications: Call Logs Overview & Best Practices
Communications: Messages Overview
Email Variables & Conditions
Message Categories: Overview & Use Cases
Phone Number Types: Overview and Use Cases
Saved Messages: Overview
Setting up an Outbound Email Domain
Trigger Explanations
Triggered Messages: Setup
Using Outbound SMS
Using the Mass Message Tool
Companies
How to: Setting Up a Company in Sonar
Managing Multiple Companies in Sonar: Best Practices
Rebranding your Sonar Instance
Field Tech App
Financial
Agreement Templates
Invoice Attachment Use Cases & PDF Examples
Invoice Messages: Overview & Use Cases
Invoices in Sonar: Examples, Creation & Contents
Integrations
Atlas Digital CORE Integration
Calix Cloud Data Field Mappings
Calix SMx Integration: Overview
CrowdFiber Integration
External Marketing Providers
GPS Tracking Providers: Overview
GoCardless Integration: Overview & Setup
Handling Static IPs with the Calix SMx Integration
How to Connect Cambium to your Sonar Instance
How to Connect Preseem to your Sonar System
How to: Using Webhooks in Sonar
Integrating with Calix Cloud
RemoteWinBox - Integration with Sonar
Sonar Retain: AI-Powered Customer Retention & Quality Intelligence
Tower Coverage Integration: Overview
VETRO FiberMap V2 Integration: Overview
VETRO FiberMap V3 Integration: Overview
Webhook Events: Overview
Webhooks in Sonar: Basic PHP Example
iCalendar Integration
Inventory
Inventory List View: Overview
Inventory Model Management: General Overview
Network Inventory: How-to & Usage Guide
Segmentable Inventory: How-to & Usage Guide
Setup of Inventory: Manufacturers, Categories, and Assignees
Tracking and Using Consumable Inventory
Jobs
Applying Task Templates to Jobs
Edit Job Options
Example Jobs & Templates
Geofences: Overview
Job Types: Best Practices
Jobs and Scheduling: Overview
Scheduling Dispatcher View: Overview
Scheduling How-to: Creating and Booking a Job
Scheduling Table View: Overview
Scheduling Week View: Overview
Setting Up Schedules General Overview
Mapping
Misc.
Combining Custom Fields & Task Templates for Information Storage
Custom Fields Overview & Use Cases
Custom Links: Overview
Task Templates Overview & Use Cases
Monitoring
Building Alerting Rotations
Building a Monitoring Template
Poller Troubleshooting
Pollers: General Overview, Deployment Strategy, Build Out & Setup
Networking
Adtran Mosaic Cloud Platform Integration: Overview
Assigning RADIUS Addresses
Assigning an IP Address Using Sonar's IPAM: How to
Automating IP Assignments, Data Rates, and Network Access in Sonar
Building Address Lists
Building RADIUS Groups
Building a Device Mapper
Cable Modem Provisioning
Controlling Customer Speeds with Sonar: General Overview
DHCP Delivery
Data Usage Available Methods
Finding your OIDs
FreeRADIUS 3: Build-Out & Integration
How Sonar Communicates - Egress IPs Explained
IP Assignments & Sonar
IPAM: Basic Setup
IPAM: Overview
LTE Integration
MikroTik as an Inline Device: Integration With Sonar
MikroTik: Controlling Access
MikroTik: Controlling Speeds
MikroTik: Setting Up a Sonar Controlled DHCP Server
Netflow On-Premise Integration: Setup and Overview
Network Dashboard: Overview
Network Sites: Management View Overview
PacketLogic: Integration With Sonar
Pulse, Polling, and PHP
RADIUS: Build-Out & Integration with Sonar
RADIUS: Building Reply Attributes
Setting Up CoA Proxy
Sonar Flow
Sonar IP Addressing
Using Multiple Network Devices in Sonar
Purchase Orders
Release Notes
Reporting
Common Custom Report Uses
Enhanced Business Intelligence - Tips & Tricks for Advanced Users
How To Enhance Your Reporting With Custom Field Data
How to Unpublish a Report or Dashboard
Managing Scheduled Reports
Report Licenses
Reporting Time Zone Behavior
Sonar's Business Intelligence: Overview
Understanding Sonar Reports
Using Sonar DataConnect to Connect BI Applications with Your Sonar Instance
Security
Application Firewall: General Overview and Best Practices
Auth0: Overview
Multi-Factor Authentication: Overview
Password Policy In Depth
Removing a Terminated Employee In Sonar
Role Creation using GraphiQL
User Role Creation & Best Practices
Users: Overview
Sonar Billing
sonarPay
How to Find Your Processing Rates in the sonarPay Portal
Reconciling sonarPay Disbursements with Bank Deposits
What to Expect After sonarPay Enrollment
sonarPay Canada Disbursements: Overview
sonarPay Chargebacks & Disputes: Overview
sonarPay Disbursements: Overview
sonarPay Migration: Approving Your Match & Going Live
sonarPay Migration: The Token Transfer & Matching Process
sonarPay Monthly Statement: Overview
sonarPay Overview
sonarPay Reversals, Voids, & Refunds: Overview
sonarPay: Token Migration Process
System
A Deeper Dive into the New Sonar API
API Calls Using Third Party Applications: Personal Access Tokens
Browser Compatibility and Minimum Hardware Requirements for Sonar
Consuming the Sonar API
Controlling Your Landing Page: Personal Preferences
Customizing Your Customer Portal
Date/Time Picker: Overview
Dynamic Time Zones in Sonar
Filtering: Overview
Frequently Used Terms
Getting Your Data into Sonar
GraphQL Rate Limiting Overview
How To Use GraphiQL to Understand the Sonar API
How Your Data is Backed Up
How to Best Use Global Search
Interacting with Files via the API
Introducing the New Sidebar
Main Menu: Overview
Mutations in the Sonar API
Notification Preferences
REST API Wrappers for V1 Compatibility
SMS Notifications
Sonar's Rich Text Editor
System Settings: Overview
The New Sonar API
Troubleshooting the Customer Portal
Upgrading your Ubuntu OS - Customer Portal Upgrades
User Profile: Your Personal User Settings
View History & All Logs: Overview
Ticketing
Advanced Ticketing Features
Canned Replies Examples & Templates
Canned Reply Categories
Exploring Ticket Groups
How Sonar Manages Spam Tickets
How to Integrate Inbound Mailboxes with Slack
Inbound Mailboxes Example Build
Ticket Category Families & Ticket Categories: Overview
Ticket Resolution Reasons: Overview
Ticketing: Overview
Using Parent Tickets
Voice
API Changes for Voice Billing
Best Practices to Remain CPNI Compliant
Billing Voice Services in Sonar
Deploying Voice Services in Sonar
Working With the Sonar Team & Additional Resources
Sonar's Security Practices & Certifications
Sonar and General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
Sonar's Security Strategies
Technical Security Overview
Best Practices for Fast Tracking a Support Request
Feedback Portal / Suggest a Feature
Learning with Sonar: Tools and Resources
New Client Training Overview
Sonar Casts Table of Contents
Submitting Bugs vs. Feature Requests
The Sonar Community Forum
The Sonar Status Page
Third Party Customer Support Referrals
Where Sonar Stores Your Data
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- April 2021 - Archived Release Notes
April 2021 - Archived Release Notes
Update 04/26/2021 20:48
Improvements
- Added the account name to the top of the window that appears when adding a new payment method to an account
- Updated the way notes are created so that the note priority field is only displayed and required once content has been added to the note body
- Updated the color scheme for buttons used in the screens displayed when first setting up a Sonar instance
- Added the ability to see the details, history, and status of webhook events, including when the last attempt was made for individual events
Bug Fixes
- Fixed an issue that was preventing all files from being uploaded, when attempting to upload multiple files to an entity
- Fixed an issue where geo tax zones would not automatically update for an account when the serviceable address changed
- Fixed a display issue with geo tax zones that was causing the flat rate dollar amount to appear as an integer
- Fixed an issue within the Network & Inventory tab of an account, where opening the side details pane for an IP assignment would cause the details to persist in the side pane until the browser was refreshed
Update 04/23/2021 13:59
Bug Fixes
- Fixed an issue where daily billing was not running as expected for accounts with a voice service
Update 04/22/2021 20:28
Bug Fixes
- Fixed an issue that was causing some interfaces to always show as a "Down" status within Pulse
Update 04/22/2021 19:42
Improvements
- Added the ability to have account addresses prefilled when adding a new payment method to the account; the account's physical address will be prepopulated, if a mailing address is not present, and a dropdown of the account's available addresses will be available to select from
- Updated the IPAM interface to display both the type and version (IPv4 or IPv6) for subnets
- Made some minor adjustments to the labels displayed for the sorting dropdowns within tables
Bug Fixes
- Fixed an issue with global search where attempting to pull up an account's page that you were already on would do nothing, instead of closing out the global search box
- Fixed an issue with inventory-related permissions, where properly authorized users were unable to create inventory items if they did not have the permission to add models
- Fixed an issue where individual tasks (created outside of a task template) with a custom field completion requirement could not be marked as completed
- Fixed an issue that caused the Balance Due for an account to temporarily be hidden from users
- Fixed an issue where some addresses submitted through TowerCoverage would cause the TowerCoverage results page to not load
Update 04/22/2021 18:36
Bug Fixes
- Fixed an issue that was preventing multiple technicians from being scheduled for the same job
Update 04/20/2021 19:23
Improvements
- Added an indicator to the user interface when adding a service name override, to indicate the original service's name
- Serviceable Addresses can now have custom fields added to them
Bug Fixes
- Fixed an issue preventing the printed invoice fee service from being unset within Billing Settings
- Fixed an issue where ticket group members were not receiving any notifications, either in-app or via email
- Fixed the issues that were preventing Pulse from displaying the relationships on network sites and connected clients
Update 04/15/2021 19:26
Improvements
- Improved the naming used in webhooks, so that items relating to inventory will now be more clearly displayed as "Inventory Item" in the webhook Trigger Events table
Bug Fixes
- Fixed an issue that was causing the routing hash to be miscalculated for ACH NACHA files
- Fixed an issue that was allowing delinquency exclusions to be added for February 29th, even when not a leap year
- Fixed an issue that wasn't allowing job types to be edited or saved if they were attached to services that did not have an associated company
- Fixed an issue when creating an account based on TowerCoverage submissions, where the TowerCoverage submission row would not update with the newly created Sonar account until the page was refreshed
- Fixed an issue with REST API wrappers where creating a new account would cause the default email categories to be created and then detached from the account's primary contact
- Fixed an issue when setting up the TowerCoverage integration where making an error in the form would prevent saving, even after the errors had been corrected
- Fixed an issue with Notification Preferences, where notifications were not being generated for the "When a task assigned to me is due soon" or "When a task assigned to me is past due" events
- Fixed an issue with Data Exports where in rare cases some of the text files would have misplaced data, causing extra columns
- Fixed an issue that occurs when multiple users are commenting or replying to the same ticket, where the user avatars would display poorly on smaller screens
Update 04/12/2021 19:48
Improvements
- Late Fee Invoices generated on accounts will now have a due date of the next day, rather than behaving in line with an account's billing defaults
Bug Fixes
- Fixed an issue where the original instance setup would only allow for integer amounts in the Billing Settings section, rather than decimals as expected
- Fixed an issue where disconnecting an account then deleting the serviceable address would also delete the log of the disconnection
- Fixed an issue where invoices generated as a result of a Late Fee would themselves be charged late fees and invoiced accordingly
- Fixed an issue where failed payments being reversed would result in negative "Available Credits" being displayed on an account
- Fixed an issue where "Yes/No" custom fields in Sonar couldn't be unset; non-required boolean-type custom fields can now be set back to "No Selection"
Update 04/08/2021 14:46
Bug Fixes
- Fixed an issue that was preventing reporting data from syncing for some instances
Update 04/06/2021 20:01
Improvements
- Improved scheduling to only display users that are part of a Schedule Availability when booking a job
- When downloading an invoice, the message now states "Download Invoice" rather than "Download PDF"
- Corrected the handling of Telrad IMSI into MAC Address conversion behavior
- Improved Global Search behavior to allow for searching of RADIUS accounts and opening the attached account from the search results
- Corrected cases where "Statement" was being incorrectly labeled as "Invoice"
- Included the user's display name as part of the Action History when viewing logs
Bug Fixes
- Fixed an issue that was preventing users from separating an inactive account from its serviceable address through disconnection
- Fixed an issue where editing a company and setting it as the new default company for the instance would display both the original and edited company as the default company
- Fixed an issue where services added to an account with a price override and quantities above 1 would calculate their totals incorrectly
- Fixed an issue where the "Paginator Size" field would not update the number of items displayed per page for an account
- Fixed an issue where attempting to paste an image into a ticket reply would hang indefinitely
- Fixed an issue where the IP Address Management Interface on any account wasn't displaying IP assignee history
- Fixed an issue preventing users from editing the metadata for a service once the service was added to an account
- Fixed an issue with the way transactions are handled between parent and child accounts, which was sometimes causing an incorrect running balance to be displayed for the child account
- Fixed an issue where email message content created in French, or with French characters, would break email message functionality on the instance
- Fixed an issue that was sometimes preventing the correct results from being displayed, when searching by ID
- Fixed an issue where IP addresses captured by Option 82 wouldn't read the leased MAC address and would therefore change the IP assignment
- Fixed an issue where custom fields on account contacts were missing from the contact edit screen