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Zuora Billing Release 258, October 2019

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Zuora Billing Release 258, October 2019

Welcome to the release notes for Zuora Billing Release 258 (R258), October 2019. This release includes new Zuora Billing features, enhancements, and resolved issues.

For more information about the release notes of other Zuora products, see Zuora Release Notes.

Release schedule

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REST API

See API Changelog for a summary of REST API updates and documentation updates in the Zuora API Reference.

Payments

Adyen Integration v2.0 supports the ACH payment method

Adyen Integration v2.0 now supports the ACH payment method. You can now use this gateway integration to process the following transactions:

  • ACH payments
  • ACH refunds
  • ACH non-referenced refunds 

See Adyen Integration v2.0 for more information.

Platform

Updates to Data Query supported output formats

Data Query now supports TSV (tab-separated values) and DSV (delimiter separated values) as the output formats in addition to CSV and JSON.

The query result is now JSON Lines format when the outputFormat field is set to JSON.

To indicate the output format of your query, set the format in the outputFormat field in the request body of Submit data query operation.

Data Model is now available

Data Model provides a uniform custom data service for you to manage custom objects and fields in Zuora. These custom data are stored on Zuora's platform and can be used to extend the data model to accommodate your specific use cases. See Data Model for more information.

See Custom Object Definitions and Custom Object Records for the API reference.

Settings API is now available

Settings API is In Development.

Settings API allows you to automate your tenant settings management process. See Settings API for the overview and tutorials.

See Settings for the API reference.

Enhanced Production Copy Environment is now available

The Enhanced Production Copy Environment feature is in Limited Availability and is limited to one Enhanced Production Copy environment per production tenant. Contact Zuora Global Support for details.

Zuora customers can purchase any number of Production Copy Environments and one Enhanced Production Copy environment. Compared with the Production Copy Environment, the Enhanced Production Copy Environment includes additional features and products, such as Reporting, RevPro Integration, Workflow, and other Marketplace applications. See Production Copy Environment for more information.

Reporting and Analytics

Reporting now supports the Is Processed field for rate plan charges

The Is Processed field of the Rate Plan Charge data source is now available for use in reports. Is Processed indicates whether a charge segment has been completely billed for all its relevant billing periods. This is determined by whether the End Date of the charge is earlier than or equal to the Target Date when generating invoices.

SOAP API

Current WSDL version: 101

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.