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
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
02/14/2025 14:50 CST
Bug Fixes
- Fixed an issue where sonarPay refunds were intermittently incorrectly showing they failed when they had successfully gone through, causing the refund to not be captured within Sonar
02/13/2025 21:01 CST
Improvements
- Improved automatic data synchronization with optimized detection and repair for any inconsistencies
- Enhanced the Adtran Mosaic Cloud sync process to run in parallel for device syncs and added a single-item sync option for targeted updates and testing
Bug Fixes
- Resolved an issue where invoices for accounts without ‘Printed Invoice’ enabled were incorrectly included in Print to Mail batches
- Fixed an issue where clicking the ‘Linked Accounts’ pill in the Billing tab incorrectly routed to ‘Transactions’
- Resolved a problem where sorting tickets by ‘Last Modified’ did not factor in internal comments
02/04/2025 21:30 CST
Improvements
- Refined processing and rate limiting for GraphQL API queries, including implementing a max field limit of 100 and adjustments for the transactions query to better manage resource demands
- Enhanced Adtran Mosaic Cloud integration settings to allow for specifying ethernet profiles and ensuring required ports are accessible
Bug Fixes
- Resolved an issue where certain filters could trigger an error when no options were selected
- Fixed an issue where the time column in Week View was cut off in Chrome and Opera web browsers
- Resolved an issue where expiring services were not included in the initial invoice generated during account activation
- Fixed an issue that caused delays in updating radius sessions
- Fixed an issue where DataConnect failed to detect updates to model changes, preventing access to newly added fields
01/28/2025 21:41 CST
Improvements
- Added support for SMx v25.1 to our Calix SMx integration
- Enhanced security by implementing a mechanism to manage API session tokens more effectively
- Added 2-way address synchronization to our Vetro FiberMap integration
- Replaced Flatfile with a built-in CSV import tool, providing a fully integrated solution for data imports
Bug Fixes
- Fixed an issue in an effort to improve billing processing performance
- Resolved an issue with accounting for reversed discounts migrated from v1, ensuring running balances are now calculated correctly
01/21/2025 19:57 CST
Improvements
- Added a new billing setting, Run Autopay on Disconnect Invoice, allowing you to enable autopay for invoices created during account disconnection and set the offset days
Bug Fixes
- Fixed an issue where icons were missing under the Counts column on the Accounts List View
- Resolved a problem where the "Remove a price override from a service on the account" scheduled event displayed all services on the account rather than only those with price overrides
- Resolved an issue where accounts with no contacts displayed all sent emails in the Correspondence section, including emails sent to other account entities across the instance
01/14/2025 19:12 CST
Improvements
- Improved the efficiency of billing processes to reduce latency and enhance performance
Bug Fixes
- Fixed an issue where reversing a debit on an invoice deleted applied credits
- Resolved a problem where Default Sales Tax was not applied to some sonarPay credit card payments
- Addressed an issue where manual sonarPay payments could time out in Sonar but still process successfully in the sonarPay portal
- Resolved a problem where some sonarPay payment timeout messages were not properly handled, ensuring they are now retried as expected
- Addressed an issue where some sonarPay transaction statuses were not syncing properly with the sonarPay portal
- Fixed an issue that prevented user tasks from being sorted by Due Date
- Fixed an issue that caused the child icon to be missing from the Link Account button
- Resolved a problem where addresses missing a unit identifier in address line 2 failed to validate
- Fixed an issue that prevented large data export files from being downloaded successfully
01/07/2025 19:05 CST
Improvements
- Improved the account disconnection process to ensure that any available credits are applied to open invoices
- Added the Account Name and Account ID to the billing page of the customer portal
- Refactored front-end styles
Bug Fixes
- Fixed an issue where completing a job associated with a ticket would incorrectly change the priority of that ticket to "Low"
- Resolved an issue that caused the service period to be missing from the default Invoice Template
- Fixed an issue that may have caused poor loading speeds of in-app notifications for some users