Release Notes for Zuora Release 229, July 2018

Set Activation Dates Unavailable for Active Subscriptions

If you have the Order Metrics feature enabled, the set activation dates button is not available on the subscription page for an active subscription. This prevents the potential inconsistent start date issue between an order quantity metric and invoice item.

Orders Respecting Subscription Permissions

The Orders feature has now been enhanced to respect the following Subscription permissions:

• Manage Subscriptions/Amendments: If a user role is not granted with the permission, the user cannot create any order or order action.
• Delete Subscriptions/Amendments: If a user role is not granted with the permission, the user cannot delete any order.

Support for Permanently Deleting Billing Document PDF Files

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) enforced in May 2018 stipulates that the personally identifiable information (PII) of EU citizens must be erased if they require vendors to do so under certain circumstances. In compliance with GDPR, Zuora provides you with a new user permission called “Hard Delete Billing Document Files" and a new REST API operation called “Create job to hard delete billing document files” to erase the PII contained in billing documents. 
If you have this user permission, you can call the new REST API operation to permanently delete all billing document PDF files stored in Zuora for specific accounts.

Support for Embedding Images in Billing Document Files

Zuora now supports embedding images in addition to barcodes into files that are generated for billing documents, including invoices, credit memos, and debit memos. To achieve this, you can add a custom merge field to any billing document template. 
{ MERGEFIELD Image:{Merge field} \* MERGEFORMAT }
For example:
{ MERGEFIELD Image:Account.ImageURL__c \* MERGEFORMAT }

Enhancement for Controlling the Regeneration of Billing Document PDF Files

The Billing user permission "Regenerate invoice PDF" is now called “Regenerate PDF”, and is now relocated in the Billing Document Files area. This permission has been enhanced to control whether to regenerate PDF files for all billing documents, including invoices, credit memos, and debit memos. By default, you can regenerate PDF files for billing documents.

See Billing Permissions for more information.