Zuora Billing Release 253, August 2019
Welcome to the release notes for Zuora Billing Release 253 (R253), August 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.
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REST API
See API Changelog for a summary of REST API updates and documentation updates in the Zuora API Reference.
Invoicing and Invoice Settlement
New billing rule for redistributing tax rounding differences in Zuora Tax
This feature is in Limited Availability. If you want to have access to the feature, submit a request at Zuora Global Support.
A new billing rule called Zuora Tax rounding diff dispersion has been added to Billing Settings > Define Billing Rules.
When using Zuora Tax for tax calculation, you can use this billing rule to control whether to redistribute the tax rounding differences between the group level and item level.
By default, this billing rule is set to No.
See Define billing rules for more information.
Support for terminating bill runs in Processing status
This feature is in Limited Availability. If you want to have access to the feature, submit a request at Zuora Global Support.
Zuora now supports terminating bill runs that are in Processing status. To use this feature, you must grant the new Terminate Bill Runs Billing user permission to your Billing users.
If this Billing user permission is enabled, the more > Terminate this bill run button is available on the details page of bill runs that are in Processing status.
See Terminate bill runs and Billing permissions for more information.
Tax status information available for invoices
The Zuora UI now displays the tax status information about invoices. You can view detailed tax status information about invoices on the following pages:
- Tax Status field next to the corresponding invoice on the All Invoices page
- Tax Status and Tax Message fields on the invoice details page
You can also obtain detailed tax status information about invoices by querying the Invoice object.
SOAP API
Current WSDL version: 100
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.