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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- March 2021 - Archived Release Notes
March 2021 - Archived Release Notes
Update 03/24/2021 22:48
New Features
- Implemented the first phase of Voice Billing, which provides a way of billing customers for voice services; additional work will be continuing on the backend to fully build-out this feature
Bug Fixes
- Fixed an issue where not all transaction activity was being captured in the activity logs
Update 03/19/2021 17:57
Bug Fixes
- Fixed an issue where testing the API connection for the TowerCoverage integration would result in a "The remote server returned an error: (403) Forbidden" error message
Update 03/19/2021 6:13
Bug Fixes
- Fixed an issue where the Next Service Period Start date would appear to be a day before the Next Bill Date due to an error in time zone calculation
- Fixed an issue where deposit slips were generating for the incorrect date and time due to time zone conversion/calculation
- Fixed an issue that was allowing recurring services to appear in the list of selectable services for the FCC Form 477 report, instead of only voice or data services
- Fixed an issue where performing a reversal and refund would appear to succeed even if the refund portion failed
- Fixed an issue that was preventing some images from loading as a result of mismatched file size in the database
Update 03/17/2021 20:37
Improvements
- Added the ability to make a public ticket private by removing the ticket's associated inbound mailbox, as long as there have been no public replies to the ticket
Bug Fixes
- Fixed an issue with data services where upload/download speeds under 1 Mbps were being displayed as 0 Mbps
- Fixed an issue that was preventing name overrides from appearing on an invoice for recurring services if the name override was applied at the same time the service was added to the account
- Fixed an issue where disconnecting/activating an account would not close/open the account's data usage history periods accordingly
- Fixed an issue that was causing FCC Form 477-related role permissions to not save consistently
- Fixed an issue with geo taxes where the form fields were not unsettable and therefore edits to remove values were not being saved
- Fixed an issue where only the first 25 account-related custom fields would be displayed on the Edit page when editing an account
Update 03/15/2021 22:19
Improvement
- Improved the Call Log creation window to allow the "Cancel" and "Create" buttons to be visible, even on low resolutions and small screens
- Improved Job Completion Notes functionality to allow editing of the notes after the job has been completed
- Corrected the value format of Column C of the FCC Form 477 Report to show an integer value
Bug Fixes
- Fixed an issue where transaction totals and an account's running balance were out of sync
- Fixed an issue where replying to a ticket would strip the Ticket Category from the ticket
- Fixed an issue where the accounting period wouldn't automatically close when set to daily
- Fixed a billing issue where no statements were being generated, only invoices
Update 03/11/2021 22:25
Improvements
- Added the ability to use GoCardless as a Payment Processor within Sonar V2
- Added a tooltip to entity custom fields that indicates a task will be completed when a task with a Custom Field Completion requirement exists on the entity
Bug Fixes
- Fixed an issue where the Customer Portal Username field could not be unset from a customer's contact details
- Fixed an issue where previews for images uploaded to an account weren't being shown in some browsers or operating systems
- Fixed an issue where certain date fields on the Account Management View weren't following instance date/time formatting settings
- Fixed an issue where tickets were not being fully deleted, only marked as internal, and then no longer allowing editing
Update 03/10/2021 20:23
New Features
- Added the ability to have all customer invoices generated in both English and French, through the new "Bilingual Invoices" field found under System Settings; this can also be set on an account/contact basis, through the use of the primary contact's "Language" field
Improvements
- Added the ability to lookup IP assignments through global search
- Added the ability to prefill ticket recipients when creating a new public ticket, based on the contact(s) associated with the account or network site
Bug Fixes
- Fixed an issue where the "Change Status After X Days" field was still showing on an account's billing configuration, even when the "Switch Status After Delinquency" setting was disabled
- Fixed an issue with the V1 to V2 API wrapper that was causing account balance discrepancies between the customer portal and the instance
- Fixed an issue that was causing invoices to sometimes indicate the account had unapplied credits when it did not
- Fixed an issue where the "Last Modified" sorting option in the ticketing interface was not accounting for all ticket changes
- Fixed an issue that was preventing a job type's "Ticket Group Upon Completion" and "Ticket Group Upon Failure" fields from being unset through GraphQL
- Fixed an issue with the FCC Form 477 report generator that was restricting the selection of data and voice services to only the first 50 displayed in the list
- Fixed an issue that was preventing the ticketing interface from being displayed if there was an unsupported email address associated with a contact, account, or ticket in the instance
Update 03/03/2021 21:16
Improvements
- Added the ability to select either the Serviceable Address or Mailing Address for an account and pre-fill the payment information
- Added the Primary contact's Phone Number and Email Address to the Job Details view, accessible from the sidebar after clicking the contact name
- Added the ability to view an account's activation time as well as date using the GraphQL API
Bug Fixes
- Fixed an issue where performing a Data Export using Google Chrome would result in a file without a CSV extension
- Fixed an issue where attempting to assign devices based on MAC Address was difficult due to search irregularities
- Fixed an issue where completion notes on Jobs weren't being displayed on the Job View page
- Fixed an issue where RADIUS CoA had the wrong Acct-Session-Id in the packet