Zuora Billing Release 284, August 2020
Welcome to the release notes for Zuora Billing Release 284 (R284), August 2020.
For more information about the release notes of other Zuora products, see Zuora Release Notes.
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REST API
See API Changelog for a summary of REST API updates and documentation updates in the Zuora API Reference.
Orders and Subscriptions
The Orders feature is now generally available with the following new features and enhancements.
Native Ramps in Orders
This feature is currently available in the Sandbox environment only. It will become available in the Production environment on September 10.
With the Ramps feature, you can now create and manage ramp deals in a single Order through the Orders UI, Orders API, and Zuora CPQ with a native Ramp configured in your Order. You can report out-of-the-box Ramp Metrics to easily overview the bookings for ramp deals and understand the history and relationship of changes across the years. The Ramps feature works end to end from Zuora CPQ to Zuora Revenue without the need to customize ramp deals.
See the following resources for more details.
Orders Harmonization
This feature is currently available in the Sandbox environment only. It will become available in the Production environment on September 10.
If you are an existing Subscribe and Amend customer, and want to leverage Orders, Orders Harmonization helps you to transition to Orders easily. Previously, to adopt Orders, you had to migrate all your existing integrations on Subscribe and Amend APIs to use the new Orders REST APIs. With the Orders Harmonization feature, you can continue to use Subscribe and Amend APIs and also use Orders APIs and Orders UI to create and manage your subscriptions. You do not need to go through full migration in order to use Orders related functionality.
See more details in Orders Harmonization.
Enhanced Orders UI capabilities
This feature is currently available in the Sandbox environment only. It will become available in the Production environment on September 10.
- The workflow for order management is streamlined to provide improved usability.
- When you suspend a subscription, you have the option to specify the resume details in the same order action.
- When you add the product to a subscription, you can select more than one rate plan in multiple products. You can also clear some of your selections before you proceed to the next step.
- Charge segment view on rate plan charges in Orders is improved. You can now see different charge segment dates for Quantity, Price, and Discount.
- Preview billing based on billing periods is supported. The default number of billing periods for preview are 3.
- When searching for an order, you can choose to use the account number, subscription number, or order number to search.
- A product tour is embedded in the product UI to provide you with a quick reference for some common use cases. Click Explore Orders at the top right of the UI to access the quick tours and some other reference information.
- A product tour is embedded in the product UI to provide you with a quick reference for some common use cases. Click Explore Orders at the top right of the UI to access the quick tours and some other reference information.
- The look and feel of the Orders UI is enhanced to provide better usability.
To support these UI enhancements, the Orders Tutorials section is updated to reflect the new workflows.
Support for the Update rate plan charge trigger condition feature in Orders
A new feature called "Update rate plan charge trigger condition" has been added on Orders to support updating the trigger condition of a rate plan charge directly. With this feature, you can now update the rate plan charge trigger condition from the subscription details page before a charge is invoiced. You can also use the CRUD: Update rate plan charge operation or the Update action to make the update through the Zuora API. See Updating the Trigger Condition for a Subscription Rate Plan Charge for a tutorial.
To use this feature, you must set the “Update rate plan charge trigger condition?” setting to Yes in Billing Settings > Default Subscription and Order Settings. This feature is disabled to Orders customers by default.
For Subscribe and Amend customers, Zuora introduced this setting and it is set to Yes by default. You can turn it off if you want.
New fields now available in data sources
The Order data source has been enhanced. The following fields are now available:
- Created By Migration
- Status
The Order Action data source has been enhanced. The following fields are now available:
- Auto Renew
- Cancellation Effective Date
- Cancellation Policy
- Current Term
- Current Term Period Type
- Renewal Setting
- Renewal Term
- Renewal Term Period Type
- Resume Date
- Suspend Date
- Term Start Date
- Term Type
Orders UI change to the account details page
In the Orders UI, the Subscriptions-Owned tab is now displayed as the default tab in the Orders & Subscriptions area of the account details page.
SOAP API
Current WSDL version: 105
See Zuora WSDL for information on how to check your version and download the latest version.
SOAP API change history
See Zuora SOAP API Version History for a summary of updates made to the SOAP API in recent Zuora releases.