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
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
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
Communications: 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
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 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
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
sonarPay Chargebacks & Disputes: Overview
sonarPay Disbursements: Overview
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
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
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
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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- September 2024 - Archived Release Notes
September 2024 - Archived Release Notes
Updated
by Kristen Fiddes
09/27/2024 11:32 CDT
New Feature
- Available in all instances, you can now require SSO for logging into your instance, ensuring your users authenticate via SSO only and removing the option to log in with their Sonar credentials
To read more about this feature, click here
09/24/2024 17:20 CDT
New Feature
- Launched our Custom Links feature, allowing you to use custom field data to create unique links for quick access to third-party web applications and resources directly from within your instance
To read more about this feature, click here
Improvements
- Optimized the Service Mapping options in the Calix SMx integration—now, only data services are available as options
- Upgraded our web server software version to support enhanced monitoring efforts
- Updated the list of payment processors to reflect those that are being deprecated
- Introduced the new mutation
updateAccountActivationDate
, enabling you to retroactively set an activation date/time for previously activated accounts
Bug Fixes
- Addressed a problem where autopay bank payments processed via sonarPay were incorrectly marked as failed, even when successful
- Fixed an issue where downloading some Printed Invoice Batches would fail—batches exceeding 512MB will now be split to avoid this problem
- Corrected missing disbursement details in some sonarPay transactions
- Resolved an inconsistency where voiding a bank payment would fail, but the transaction would still be marked as successfully voided
- Fixed a bug where payments applied to delinquent parent invoices didn't immediately clear the delinquent flag
- Resolved an issue where sonarPay payments would briefly display as Failed during processing, despite being successfully completed
09/17/2024 19:43 CDT
New Feature
- We've introduced the ability to require SSO to login to your instance, thereby forcing your users to use SSO only and removing the ability to log in with their Sonar user credentialsNote: This is in beta mode while we conduct final testing.
Improvements
- Introduced the ability to copy and paste blocks within, and between, Invoice Templates
- Enhanced the readability of field captions, IDs in select lists, and some small labels
Bug Fixes
- Resolved an issue that may cause payments processed through Bambora to fail
- Resolved an issue where audits would fail to complete when updating multiple services with Adtran's Mosaic Cloud integration when bounce ports was enabled
09/13/2024 17:41 CDT
Bug Fixes
- Resolved an issue that caused an error message to appear when attempting to modify certain existing account services
09/12/2024 18:43 CDT
Improvements
- Upgraded our underlying framework to enhance performance
09/10/2024 20:14 CDT
Improvements
- Introduced the ability to manually update how often Expiring Services should run a customer account—when editing an Expiring Account Service, a new field titled "Number of times billed" is now present
- Refined IP assignment rules, allowing IPs from subnets and pools to be assigned to Accounts, Inventory Items, Inventory Items Model Field Data, and Uninventoried MAC Addresses
Bug Fixes
- Corrected an issue where the Users Here icons would disappear after navigating away from the Overview on Accounts and Network Sites
- Resolved an issue where device interface data may present an error during SNMP polling
09/04/2024 16:30 CDT
Bug Fixes
- Added an index for
transaction_id
to the payments table to enhance performance and efficiency
09/03/2024 18:05 CDT
Bug Fixes
- Resolved a problem where inventory added via CSV files was not fully synced with Calix SMx
- Fixed an issue where creating a Printed Invoice Batch displayed a success message for invoices that weren't enabled to be printed
- Resolved a problem that triggered an error when attempting to save Anchor/Linked Billing Defaults after removing field values
- Fixed an issue where the account name reflected in the browser tab did not update when changing accounts using the Global Search tool or by updating the URL