Zuora Billing Release 290, January 2021

Support for the account level discounts feature in Orders

The account level discounts feature has been supported on Orders. With this feature, you can now apply account-level discounts to your subscriptions through Orders UI and API. See Application Scopes for Discount Charges for more information about account level discounts.

To use this feature, you must set the “Enable account level discount?” 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.

Revision field now available on the Subscription object

A new field called Revision is now available on the Subscription object. Revision is an auto-generated decimal value uniquely tagged with a subscription. The value always contains one decimal place, for example, the revision of a new subscription is 1.0. If a further version of the subscription is created, the Revision value will be increased by one. Also, the Revision value is always incremental regardless of the deletion of subscription versions.

You can access the Revision field in the following locations:

• Subscription data source 
• Subscription data export
• Query action to query the subscription
• CRUD: Retrieve Subscription operation
• All the get subscription operations

Performance improvement for the amendment preview in the Amend action

Zuora has optimized the internal processing algorithm to improve the performance of the amendment preview in the Amend action.

Error type and error message changes for the Update action and CRUD: Update Subscription operation

For better clarity, Zuora has changed the error type of "UNKNOWN_ERROR" to "INVALID_VALUE" and improved the corresponding error messages in the following APIs:

• Update action
• CRUD: Update subscription operation

Resolved: Quote generation error during quotes preview in Zuora CPQ

Zuora has resolved an internal processing issue with the Preview order operation to avoid the "Quote generation error" during quotes preview in Zuora CPQ.

Account object support in price lookup for the Multi-Attribute Pricing charge model

When creating a product rate plan charge with the Multi-Attribute Pricing charge model, you can now specify a price formula by using the Account object in the fieldLookup("<object>", "<field>") function. 

Supported Account fields include:

• Standard Account object fields:
  • accountNumber
  • currency
• All custom fields on the Account object

See Price formula reference for more information.

Support for configuring tax dates for sold-to countries or regions

You can now configure tax dates for each country or region. By default, the tax date for a country or region is set to Document Date. 

• If you do not have the Invoice Settlement feature enabled, Document Date defaults the invoice date.
• If you have the Invoice Settlement feature enabled, Document Date defaults the memo date. 

With this feature, you can also see any tax date setting changes by using the Audit Trail function.

See Configure tax dates for more information.

Access Worldpay now available

A new Worldpay gateway integration called Access Worldpay is now available in Zuora. It integrates with the Access Worldpay API to provide the following payment operations for Credit Cards and Credit Card Reference payment methods:

• Authorization and verification
• Full and partial payment capture
• Referenced and non-referenced refunds or partial refunds
• Payment cancel (void)

It also supports 3D Secure 2.0 and stored credential transactions.

Two CyberSource PMU fields now required

The following CyberSource Payment Method Updater (PMU) configuration fields are required starting from this release:

• Shared Secret Key Id
• Shared Secret Key

See Configure CyberSource payment method updater for more information.

Stripe v2 now supports ACH Tokenization

The Stripe v2 gateway integration now supports ACH Tokenization. This feature enhances security with end users’ bank account details by tokenizing the information into a single-use token.

See Stripe payment gateway for more information.

Stripe v2 now supports SEPA

The Stripe v2 gateway integration now supports the SEPA payment method. You can use SEPA payment methods to perform the following payment operations:

• Validate
• Payment
• Refund
• Cancel payment

See Stripe payment gateway for more information.

Deprecation of payment exports on the All Payments page

On the All Payments page, Zuora has deprecated the whole Action area in the right panel, including the Export Payments link and Export Credit Balance Transactions link. 

Instead, you can navigate to Reporting > Data Sources or Reporting > Exports to export payments.