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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- Release Notes
- Release Notes
Release Notes
Updated by Kristen Fiddes
11/12/2024 23:35 CST
Improvements
- Updated the error message displayed when a payment cannot be voided; the message now directs you to process a refund
- Added a new 'Customizations' model in Reports, enabling Sonar staff to create custom reports with greater flexibility
- Enhanced the Calix Cloud integration to allow contacts to opt out of Calix marketing campaigns
Bug Fixes
- Resolved an issue that caused some refunds processed through PayGate to incorrectly display an error message
- Fixed an issue where the sidebar on the Transactions tab of an Accounts Billing page was not displaying the correct details for some transactions
- Fixed an issue that prevented users from setting delinquency statuses when creating new Anchor Billing Defaults
- Resolved an issue where the late fee message was incorrectly displayed on invoices associated with account types excluded from late fees
- Addressed an issue that contributed to recent performance issues
11/05/2024 20:24 CST
Improvements
- Enhanced Data Usage graphs for improved performance and accuracy
- Added the mutation
InventoryItemDeviceStatus
for setting the status of inventory items - Optimized how errors are handled during billing calculations, thereby improving process efficiency
Bug Fixes
- Resolved an issue that contributed to recent performance issues
10/29/2024 22:45 CDT
New Features
- We've transitioned our direct data access solution to beta
This feature provides direct access to your data within our Snowflake data warehouse for custom analysis and reporting with your BI tools
Improvements
- Introduced the ability to add Calix provisioning details when creating Scheduled Events to add a service or package
- Improved security practices around the password reset functionality
- Sales tax will now be included with sonarPay credit card payments where applicable
Bug Fixes
- Corrected an issue that prevented some addresses from validating with our Tower Coverage integration
- Fixed a problem where statements incorrectly listed all prior invoices as unpaid
- Resolved an issue that allowed past dates to be selected as a Proration Date when deleting a package from an account
- Addressed an issue that prevented the ability to save changes made in the Edit Alerting Rotation Day modal
10/22/2024 20:09 CDT
New Features
- We've launched our Netflow On-Premise solution
Improvements
- Introduced the new query
account_ip_assignments
that will allow you to retrieve all IP addresses assigned to an account - Added a new field to the Vetro FiberMap integration to allow synchronization of serviceability status from map features.
- Updated the Calix Cloud integration to use the Calix Account column for improved accuracy
Bug Fixes
- Fixed an issue that could cause Vetro FiberMap incremental synchronization to require a full resynchronization following an error—now, synchronization will resume from the last successful point
10/18/2024 14:00 CDT
Bug Fixes
- Resolved an issue that prevented late fees from being applied when using a percentage-based late fee with a $0 base fee
10/15/2024 19:16 CDT
Improvements
- Introduced the ability to associate Contract Templates with Job Types—this can be done through both the Create Job Type and Edit Job Type modals
- Refined the messaging in the Audit Result Help modal to provide clear instructions on what requires attention
Bugs Fixes
- Fixed an issue that prevented fields from loading within the Create Mosaic Cloud Platform Integration and Edit Mosaic Cloud Platform Integration modals
10/09/2024 21:44 CDT
Improvements
- Standardized the case sensitivity of Boolean values to meet the requirements for Calix SMx R24.3.0
- Added support for service group tiers to our Calix Cloud integration
Bug Fixes
- Fixed an error that caused failed autopayments processed via SonarPay to retry incorrectly—now, retries will only occur when an empty reply is received from the payment processor
10/02/2024 21:35 CDT
Improvements
- Updated the cancel buttons within the Void Payment and Refund Payment modals to display as "Cancel Void" and "Cancel Refund" respectively
- Adjusted the refund logic to ensure the option appears in the dropdown next to a transaction, regardless of the transaction's processor status
- Added support for region/location to the Calix Cloud integration
Bug Fixes
- Fixed an issue that prevented CDRs with short codes from validating
- Removed an outdated jQuery package
- Modified queue configuration to improve webhook processing times
- Fixed a bug that prevented payments made with sonarPay from being voided after the associated payment method has been deleted
- Improved error messaging for invalid webhooks URLs, provided clearer information to assist in troubleshooting