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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- January 2021 Release Notes
January 2021 Release Notes
Updated by Mitchell Paul-Soumis
Update 01/28/2021 10:55
New Features
- Added the ability to integrate Sonar instances with TowerCoverage
Bug Fixes
- Fixed an issue where the Scan & Search feature of the Inventory module wouldn't find existing items if the inventory field being searched was longer than 12 characters
Update 01/27/2021 19:41
Improvements
- Updated the pop-up message when creating a new user in the Sonar instance to accurately reflect that the setup email is sent immediately
Bug Fixes
- Fixed an issue where old and incorrect data would sometimes get cached in the sidebar across the Sonar instance
- Fixed an issue where the Inventory Items and Payments Data reports would sometimes be blank when queried
- Fixed an issue where Schedule Availabilities weren't being checked correctly when a new day was selected when scheduling a job
Update 01/21/2021 22:52
New Features
- Added the ability to purchase data top-offs from within an account, if that account has a usage based billing policy applied to it
Improvements
- Improved scheduling so that if a technician already has a job scheduled, that time slot will not show as available when scheduling additional jobs for that technician
- Updated the wording for the amount an account currently owes, from “Due Now” to “Balance Due”
- Added the ability to change the time intervals that jobs are scheduled for, from within the job scheduling form
- Added the ability to see additional details on Bank account payment methods when making a payment
Bug Fixes
- Fixed an issue that was causing IP assignments to be duplicated on accounts within the IP Assignments view whenever an account was saved
- Fixed a display issue in the Expiring Services form where the ‘Billing frequency in months’ field would revert back to 1 after being saved
- Fixed an issue with the IPAM interface where the IP pool menu was only displaying the first 25 IP pools
- Fixed an issue when merging tickets, where the timestamps of the merged ticket were incorrectly replaced with the time the merge occurred
- Fixed an issue that was giving the option to prorate when switching an account’s status between two inactive statuses
- Fixed an issue where a user could not cancel out of their action when deleting model field data for an inventory item
- Fixed an Issue where SNMP monitoring couldn't be disabled once added to a Network Monitoring Template
- Fixed an issue where instances migrated from legacy Sonar would fail to produce batches for past Print Invoices
- Fixed an issue where making changes to a Service with more than 50 Account Groups applied would then limit the Service to only the first 50 groups
- Fixed an issue where a Task Template applied to a job wouldn't be displayed when editing the job
- Fixed an issue where Usage-Based Billing Policies couldn't be applied to Data Services unless an overage service was assigned to the Usage-Based Billing Policy
- Fixed an issue where Exporting the results of a table or search would be limited to 10,000 records, regardless of how many results are displayed
- Fixed an issue where the "Telrad Global Service Profile" section of the Account Management View was displaying raw data
- Fixed an issue where the Company field value couldn't be unset from a package
- Updated the Account Status creation modal to reflect that selecting an icon is required
- Fixed an issue where contracts couldn't be signed
Update 01/13/2021 20:25
Improvements
- Added the ability to set multiple categories for an internal ticket on creation
- Improved scheduling so that a technician can only be checked into one job at a time; checking in to a second job will effectively check them out of any other
Bug Fixes
- Fixed an issue that was causing RADIUS account logs to populate unnecessarily
Update 01/08/2021 17:07
New Features
- Added the ability to enforce restrictions on reopening closed public tickets - now, through Settings > Ticketing > General, the user can define how many days after a ticket has been closed, should a new inbound email create a fresh ticket instead of reopening the old ticket
Improvements
- Added the ability to see the applied usage based billing policy when editing a data service
Bug Fixes
- Fixed an issue that was causing jobs to be scheduled in the wrong time zone
- Fixed an issue where the elevation profile would sometimes display the network site height incorrectly
- Fixed an issue that was preventing a usage based billing policy from being applied to a service
- Fixed an issue where delinquency-based address lists wouldn't always automatically write to MikroTiks
Update 01/07/2021 14:41
Improvements
- Made improvements to the "Move IP Assignment" modal, and added an error message when there are no IP assignments to move
- Added the IP Address of an inventory item to the sidebar when viewing devices
- Updated the behavior of Stripe functionality within the Customer Portal. When adding Stripe as an approved Payment Method, customers will be taken to a Stripe-secured page when entering their payment information, rather than being handled by Sonar
- Corrected an error where invoices had a comma between the State and the ZIP Code
- Updated the Language of Notifications from "Notifications Settings" to "Notification Preferences" to eliminate the double plural
Bug Fixes
- Fixed an issue where Jobs weren't displaying any historical logs
- Fixed an issue where adding Generic Items would fail after the Inventory Model was created
- Fixed an issue where the Data Service summary on the Account Management View Overview tab was being cached between different accounts
- Fixed an issue where SNMP couldn't be removed from Network Monitoring Templates
Update 01/05/2021 13:37
Bug Fixes
- Fixed an issue that was preventing users from making multiple one-time credit card payments with the same credit card from the customer portal
- Fixed an issue that was preventing the "Download Receipt" option from functioning
Update 01/04/2021 13:57
Improvements
- Renamed the "Subnet" field, found within the Create IP Assignment window, to "Subnet or IP" to more clearly indicate that a single IP address can be assigned and not just a subnet
- Updated scheduled events so that when a credit card or bank account payment is scheduled to be made, the payment will automatically be applied to any open invoices for the account
- Updated refunds of same day credit card payments - now if the request for refund fails, Sonar will attempt to void the payment
Bug Fixes
- Fixed an issue that was causing CoA not to send from Sonar to FreeRADIUS when an account underwent a service or status change