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
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
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
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 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
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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- Customer Service Representative Resources
Customer Service Representative Resources
The resources linked below are intended to provide an overview of main topics and actions that customer service representatives would need to be familiar with when using Sonar software.
Required Resources
Knowledge Base Article | Description | Relevant Cast(s) |
This article provides an overview of the information and features available from the account list view within Sonar. | Account List View (3:47) | |
The account view screen is home to both current and historical information about the account and allows you to perform a variety of actions against an account. This article details all of the information and actions that are available from within this screen and how you can interact with it. | Account Management View (26:14) | |
This document provides a general overview of the ticketing system within Sonar as well as ways to interact with tickets and ticket features. | Ticketing Interface (14:38) | |
Parent tickets allow you to link multiple tickets together within Sonar's ticketing interface. This document provides an overview of how to set up parent tickets, how you can interact with them, and communications with parent tickets. | Using Parent Tickets (4:49) | |
Notes and tasks allow you to keep all employees on the same page with account-related information and help to prevent any necessary tasks from being overlooked. This document contains details on each feature as well as the how-tos of setting them both up. | Notes (2:56) Tasks (5:02) | |
Scheduled events are actions that you can automate within Sonar to have some sort of change occur automatically at a later date. They are configured individually per account and can be utilized to help make your normal processes more efficient. | Scheduled Events (7:38) | |
Child accounts allow you to connect one or more accounts within Sonar, in a parent-child style relationship. This affects account transactions, invoices, and also comes with additional considerations with the account billing parameters that should be reviewed prior to using this functionality. | Child Accounts (5:44) | |
Call logs allow users to record and collect data while on the phone with a customer. This article provides an overview of how call logs are used, as well as best practices for when using them. | Call Logs (3:33) | |
The Vacation Status in Sonar allows you to suspend full billing for a customer, and this article will take you through the process of creating it. | ||
Deletion of accounts is not supported within Sonar, however you can disconnect an account. This article provides the how-to for disconnecting accounts, as well as the results that this action has. | Disconnecting an Account (3:15) | |
This article will take you through how to use manual transactions in Sonar, and covers applying services, using refunds and reversals, and managing credits. | ||
In this article, we review how you can add all of your services to an account, where these services are added, and what the addition looks like. | ||
This article will walk you through the various pages and tabs available within the Customer Portal and provide some examples of common actions you can take. |
General Recommended Resources
Knowledge Base Article | Description | Relevant Cast(s) |
Global search is a helpful tool that will quickly and efficiently find what you are looking for within Sonar. From searching partial terms to specific entity IDs, global search will return all results relevant to what you are searching and also assist you with navigating to those results within the system. | ||
An overview of Sonar's rich text editor is provided in this article, with explanations and examples of each tool available in the editor. | ||
This article provides details on how to use simple and advanced filters within Sonar. | Simple vs Advanced Filtering (6:53) | |
This article provides details on the My Info page within Sonar, where an individual user can access and modify their user-specific settings and information. | ||
This article provides details on notifications in Sonar, including the different types of notifications available and how you can start using them. | ||
This article provides instructions for contacting support. | ||
This article provides an overview of the Feedback Portal and how you can utilize it to submit and upvote feature requests. | ||
This article provides a brief overview of Sonar's Business Intelligence tool, including how to access reports and the related learning resources available. | ||
This article provides an overview of the Communication Tools feature in Sonar, including an in-depth look at the individual functions —along with how to use them— and what permissions are required. | ||
This article provides an overview of the SMS notification feature, including the initial setup and permissions needed. | ||
This article walks you through using dynamic time zones to provide more flexibility while scheduling jobs, viewing technician availability, and pulling up table details. | ||
This article provides information for the "Default page on login" feature, contained in your Sonar Instance's User Profile. | ||
This article services to outline the process of deploying voice services in Sonar, including but not limited to creating a voice service, assigning DIDs, and modifying generic parameters. | ||
This article details how voice services are billed in your Sonar Instance. |