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 Statuses: Overview & Example Use Cases
Account Types: Overview & Example Use Cases
Anchor & Linked Serviceable Addresses: Overview and Best Practices
CPUC Fixed Broadband Deployment by Address
Child Accounts: Best Practices & How Tos
Creating a New Account
Disconnecting an Account
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 & Tasks: Best Practices & Use Cases
Scheduled Events: Overview & Use Cases
Serviceable Addresses: Overview and Usage
Specify Account ID upon Creation
Understanding the Affordable Connectivity Program
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
Considerations When Using Avalara with Voice Services
Creating Discounts for Services and Packages
Delinquency Billing Best Practices
Delinquency Exclusions: Overview and Use Cases
Email Invoice Batch: Overview
General Ledger Codes: Overview
General Transactions: Best Practices
How Sonar Prorates Billing
How to Take Bank Account Payments
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
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
Call Logs: General Best Practices
Communication Tools: 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
Financial
Contract Templates
Invoice Attachment Use Cases & PDF Examples
Invoice Messages: Overview & Use Cases
Invoices in Sonar: Examples, Creation & Contents
Integrations
Calix SMx Integration: Overview
CrowdFiber Integration
External Marketing Providers
GPS Tracking Providers: Overview
GoCardless Integration: Overview & Setup
How to Connect Cambium to your Sonar Instance
How to Connect Preseem to your Sonar System
How to: Using Webhooks in Sonar
RemoteWinBox - Integration with Sonar
The Sonar Field Tech App
Tower Coverage Integration: Overview
Vetro FiberMap Integration: Overview
Webhooks in Sonar: Basic PHP Example
iCalendar Integration
Inventory
Inventory List View: Overview
Inventory Model Management: General Overview
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 How-to: Creating and Booking a Job
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
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
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 Integration: 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
Enhanced Business Intelligence - Tips & Tricks for Advanced Users
How To Enhance Your Reporting With Custom Field Data
Report Licenses
Sonar's Business Intelligence: Overview
Understanding Sonar Reports
Security
Application Firewall: General Overview and Best Practices
Auth0: 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
sonarPay Chargebacks & Disputes: Overview
sonarPay Disbursements: 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: Simple vs Advanced
Frequently Used Terms
Getting Your Data into Sonar
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
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
Ticketing
Advanced Ticketing Features
Canned Replies Examples & Templates
Canned Reply Categories
Exploring Ticket Groups
How to Integrate Inbound Mailboxes with Slack
Inbound Mailboxes Example Build
Ticket Categories Best Practices & Example Build
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
CyberSecure Canada Certification
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
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- December 2020 - Archived Release Notes
December 2020 - Archived Release Notes
Update 12/30/2020 17:18
Bug Fixes
- Fixed an issue where the Connected Devices tab wasn't displaying the connection between an Account to a Network Site, nor from Network Site to an Account
- Fixed an issue where the Application Firewall being enabled would prevent contracts from being signed within the customer portal
- Fixed an issue where some accounts were not being flagged as delinquent despite their invoices being delinquent
- Fixed an issue where some credit card or bank account transactions were missing the "Also refund this payment" checkbox when being reversed
Update 12/29/2020 18:49
Bug Fixes
- Fixed an issue where the Printed Invoice Fee was being applied to accounts when they had a $0 invoice
- Fixed an issue where services limited to an account group where being displayed as available one-time transactions for accounts that are not within that group
- Fixed an issue where transactions could sometimes not be reversed as the page would hang
Update 12/23/2020 21:24
Improvements
- Updated Task behavior to allow any user to complete tasks assigned to no one, regardless of the presence of the " Whether a user can complete tasks that are not assigned to them" permission on the user's role
Bug Fixes
- Fixed an issue where Report Thumbnails were failing to load after having launched at least one report
- Fixed an issue when IPv6 Address Lists weren't populating on MikroTik devices
- Fixed an issue where the Diners Club Credit Card image was missing when added to an account
- Fixed an issue where the "Synchronize" button wasn't pushing IPv4 address updates to MikroTik devices
Update 12/22/2020 15:09
Improvements
- Modified deposit slips so that they can no longer be edited, to better align with best practices
Bug Fixes
- Fixed an issue where accounts in an inactive status could see an automated status change based on delinquency
- Fixed an issue where inbound mailbox signatures would sometimes not be displayed on ticket replies
Update 12/21/2020 19:53
New Features
- Added the ability for users to configure and receive both in-app and email notifications when various actions are completed within the Sonar instance
Improvements
- Updated the process for creating refunds and reversals from within the Transaction History of an account - now transactions have a "Reverse" option that will also allow for a refund to be created, if applicable
Bug Fixes
- Fixed an issue that was causing IPv6 address lists to not populate on MikroTik, when using the synchronize function
- Fixed an issue that was preventing a proration option from appearing for scheduled events, even when the user had the permissions to prorate for services
- Fixed an issue where services with a quantity of 0 would not display the quantity (would appear blank) from within the Services & Packages section of an account
Update 12/17/2020 20:32
Bug Fixes
- Fixed an issue which was preventing users from viewing a single day's data usage for an account, and instead requiring a date range to be selected
- Fixed an issue that was not allowing autopay to be disabled or enabled from the customer portal for some payment methods
- Fixed an issue where usage based billing policies were not taking into account the months to bill for the data cap
- Fixed an issue with the additional actions available after creating a new ticket, where clicking on some of the actions would result in a blank window appearing
- Fixed an issue where accounts with either an active or inactive status were being moved into delinquency, instead of active accounts only
Update 12/14/2020 20:32
Improvements
- Corrected a typo that appeared when creating or editing a geofence
Bug Fixes
- Fixed an issue that was preventing edits to an existing geofence from being saved
Update 12/11/2020 20:32
Improvements
- Added a scroll bar to confirmation and pop-up dialogs in Sonar to accommodate the display of long texts
Bug Fixes
- Fixed an issue where having more than 25 Inventory Items assigned to a Network site would prevent any items from being displayed when assigning an IP address
- Fixed an issue where a printed invoice would display Document ID rather than Invoice number
- Fixed an issue where some fields couldn't be returned to a blank value once values were added to them
- Fixed an issue that was preventing certain geofences from being saved or edited
- Fixed an issue with Advanced Filtering on the Accounts List where values would display incorrectly
- Fixed an issue where an account's Transaction History wasn't dynamically updating for all logged-in users
- Fixed an issue where updating Bank Account payment details would fail on accounts migrated from V1 into V2
- Fixed an issue which resulted in Account Services prorating incorrectly, and no longer accounting for split Invoice/Billing days
Update 12/09/2020 19:55
Bug Fixes
- Fixed an issue that was causing attachments within a ticket to not be accessible for viewing or download
Update 12/08/2020 20:21
Improvements
- Added real-time device metrics to the top of the Network Dashboard
- Added a new toggle to the Billing Settings page - "Always round taxes up"
- Added a YES/NO indicator when a Scheduled Availability is restricted to a specific Geofence
Update 12/07/2020 22:25
Improvements
- Corrected a typo which appeared when replacing the Data Service on an account with a different one
- Corrected a typo when creating an Adjustment service
- Corrected a typo when adding Authorize as a Bank Account Processor where "Transaction" was misspelled
Bug Fixes
- Fixed an issue where the "Contact has Email Category Enabled" filter in Mass Email creation was filtering incorrectly
- Fixed an issue where Data Usage wasn't correctly rounding decimals
Update 12/03/2020 11:57
Bug Fixes
- Fixed an issue with mass emails where using the "Account is Delinquent" filter would not correctly filter down to only delinquent accounts
- Fixed an issue with the mass email filter "Contact has Email Category Enabled" that was resulting in the wrong contacts being added to the email
- Fixed an issue that was preventing the billing settings field "Invoice Day" from being set to null
- Fixed an issue with data exports that would cause the export to fail for some instances, due to a timeout issue
- Fixed an issue that was preventing price overrides from being set on account services