Release Notifications

When you configure the payment options for a Lockbox, you can now select to apply the payment made at the account level as an unapplied payment that is not attached to any billing documents.

See Zuora Collect AI Release Notes for details.

We have improved the mechanism of API token identification for the integration of Collections Window and Workflow.

The planned deployment schedule is as follows:

• EU Cloud Sandbox Release: from 04/22/2021 (Thursday) PT to 04/23/2021 (Friday) PT
• US Cloud Sandbox Release: from 04/22/2021 (Thursday) PT to 04/23/2021 (Friday) PT
• US Data Center Sandbox Release: from 04/22/2021 (Thursday) PT to 04/23/2021 (Friday) PT
• EU Cloud Production Release: from 04/27/2021 (Tuesday) PT to 04/29/2021 (Thursday) PT
• US Cloud Production Release: from 04/27/2021 (Tuesday) PT to 04/29/2021 (Thursday) PT
• US Data Center Production: from 04/27/2021 (Tuesday) PT to 04/28/2021 (Thursday) PT

No service disruption is expected for this release.
Release Notes for release 300 will be published under Zuora Release Notes after Sandbox release. We will update the release status in the comments to this post.

Zuora Collect AI is now generally available to Zuora customers once it is purchased. It is generally available to all existing Collect customers. Collect AI is the newest addition to the subscription management suite of applications, with the enhancements to the previous version of Zuora Collect.

We have implemented the integration of Collect and the support for creating payment runs at scale for Advanced Payment Manager and Configurable Payment Retry.

The planned deployment schedule is as follows:

• EU Cloud Sandbox Release: 04/15/2021 (Thursday) PT
• US Cloud Sandbox Release: 04/15/2021 (Thursday) PT
• US Data Center Sandbox Release: 04/15/2021 (Thursday) PT
• EU Cloud Production Release: from 04/20/2021 (Tuesday) PT to 04/22/2021 (Thursday) PT
• US Cloud Production Release: from 04/20/2021 (Tuesday) PT to 04/22/2021 (Thursday) PT
• US Data Center Production: from 04/20/2021 (Tuesday) PT to 04/22/2021 (Thursday) PT

No service disruption is expected for this release.
Release Notes for release 299 will be published under Zuora Release Notes after Sandbox release. We will update the release status in the comments to this post.

We have released a few enhancements to Configurable Lockbox for payment records.

360+ Release notes here.

Salesforce Package 360 5.10 release notes here.

The planned deployment schedule is as follows:

• EU Cloud Sandbox Release: from 03/18/2021 (Thursday) PT to 03/19/2021 (Friday) 
• US Cloud Sandbox Release: from 03/18/2021 (Thursday) PT to 03/19/2021 (Friday)
• US Data Center Sandbox Release: from 03/18/2021 (Thursday) PT to 03/19/2021 (Friday)
• EU Cloud Production Release: from 03/23/2021 (Tuesday) PT to 03/25/2021 (Thursday) PT
• US Cloud Production Release: from 03/23/2021 (Tuesday) PT to 03/25/2021 (Thursday) PT
• US Data Center Production: from 03/23/2021 (Tuesday) PT to 03/25/2021 (Thursday) PT

No service disruption is expected for this release.
Release Notes for release 297 will be published under Zuora Release Notes after Sandbox release. We will update the release status in the comments to this post.

The Billing Release Notes for release 296 have just been updated.

The planned deployment schedule is as follows:

• EU Cloud Sandbox Release: 03/11/2021 (Thursday) PT
• US Cloud Sandbox Release: 03/11/2021 (Thursday) PT
• US Data Center Sandbox Release: 03/11/2021 (Thursday) PT
• EU Cloud Production Release: from 03/16/2021 (Tuesday) PT to 03/18/2021 (Thursday) PT
• US Cloud Production Release: from 03/16/2021 (Tuesday) PT to 03/18/2021 (Thursday) PT
• US Data Center Production: from 03/16/2021 (Tuesday) PT to 03/18/2021 (Thursday) PT

No service disruption is expected for this release.
Release Notes for release 296 will be published under Zuora Release Notes after Sandbox release. We will update the release status in the comments to this post.

With March 3rd release of 360+ we now provide:

• Fix for synchronization of Subscription Rate Plans and Subscription Rate Plan Charges.
• Update where we now sync Salesforce payment method record ID to the Payment Method Name field in Salesforce. Note: This change is available in all sandbox environments, with a target release to production: April 12th.

We have released an enhancement to Collections Window for displaying debit memos on the account details page.

The planned deployment schedule is as follows:

• EU Cloud Sandbox Release: 03/04/2021 (Thursday) PT
• US Cloud Sandbox Release: 03/04/2021 (Thursday) PT
• US Data Center Sandbox Release: 03/04/2021 (Thursday) PT
• EU Cloud Production Release: from 03/09/2021 (Tuesday) PT to 03/11/2021 (Thursday) PT
• US Cloud Production Release: from 03/09/2021 (Tuesday) PT to 03/11/2021 (Thursday) PT
• US Data Center Production: from 03/09/2021 (Tuesday) PT to 03/11/2021 (Thursday) PT

No service disruption is expected for this release.
Release Notes for release 295 will be published under Zuora Release Notes after Sandbox release. We will update the release status in the comments to this post.

The planned deployment schedule is as follows:

• EU Cloud Sandbox Release: 02/25/2021 (Thursday) PT
• US Cloud Sandbox Release: 02/25/2021 (Thursday) PT
• US Data Center Sandbox Release: 02/25/2021 (Thursday) PT
• EU Cloud Production Release: from 03/03/2021 (Wednesday) PT to 03/05/2021 (Friday) PT
• US Cloud Production Release: from03/03/2021 (Wednesday) PT to 03/05/2021 (Friday) PT
• US Data Center Production: from 03/03/2021 (Wednesday) PT to 03/05/2021 (Friday) PT

No service disruption is expected for this release.
Release Notes for release 294 will be published under Zuora Release Notes after Sandbox release.We will update the release status in the comments to this post.

The planned deployment schedule is as follows:

• EU Cloud Sandbox Release: 02/19/2021 (Friday) PT
• US Cloud Sandbox Release: 02/19/2021 (Friday) PT
• US Data Center Sandbox Release: 02/19/2021 (Friday) PT
• EU Cloud Production Release: from 02/23/2021 (Tuesday) PT to 02/25/2021 (Thursday) PT
• US Cloud Production Release: from 02/23/2021 (Tuesday) PT to 02/25/2021 (Thursday) PT
• US Data Center Production: from 02/23/2021 (Tuesday) PT to 02/25/2021 (Thursday) PT

No service disruption is expected for this release.
Release Notes for release 293 will be published under Zuora Release Notes after Sandbox release.We will update the release status in the comments to this post.

We have enhanced the Configurable Lockbox feature to support payment processing against debit memos for the Account Only process.

Starting from February 16, 2021, Configurable Payment Retry no longer provides native support for switching payment gateways as part of the retry logic.

The planned deployment schedule is as follows:

• EU Cloud Sandbox Release: 02/09/2021 (Tuesday) PT
• US Cloud Sandbox Release: 02/09/2021 (Tuesday) PT
• US Data Center Sandbox Release: 02/09/2021 (Tuesday) PT
• EU Cloud Production Release: from 02/18/2021 (Thursday) PT to 02/19/2021 (Friday) PT
• US Cloud Production Release: from 02/18/2021 (Thursday) PT to 02/19/2021 (Friday) PT
• US Data Center Production: from 02/18/2021 (Thursday) PT to 02/19/2021 (Friday) PT

No service disruption is expected for this release.
Release Notes for release 292 will be published under Zuora Release Notes after Sandbox release.We will update the release status in the comments to this post.

We have released several enhancements to the Statement Generator and Notes.

The planned deployment schedule is as follows:

• EU Cloud Sandbox Release: from 01/20/2021 (Wednesday) PT to 01/21/2021(Thursday) PT
• US Cloud Sandbox Release: from 01/20/2021 (Wednesday) PT to 01/21/2021(Thursday) PT
• US Data Center Sandbox Release: from 01/20/2021 (Wednesday) PT to 01/21/2021(Thursday) PT 
• EU Cloud Production Release: from 01/26/2021 (Tuesday) PT to 01/28/2021 (Thursday) PT
• US Cloud Production Release:from 01/26/2021 (Tuesday) PT to 01/28/2021 (Thursday) PT
• US Data Center Production:from 01/26/2021 (Tuesday) PT to 01/28/2021 (Thursday) PT

No service disruption is expected for this release.
Release Notes for release 291 will be published under Zuora Release Notes after Sandbox release.We will update the release status in the comments to this post.

The planned deployment schedule is as follows:

• EU Cloud Sandbox Release: 01/12/2021 (Tuesday) PT
• US Cloud Sandbox Release: 01/12/2021 (Tuesday) PT 
• US Data Center Sandbox Release: 01/12/2021 (Tuesday) PT 
• EU Cloud Production Release: from 01/19/2021 (Tuesday) PT to 01/21/2021 (Thursday) PT
• US Cloud Production Release: from 01/19/2021 (Tuesday) PT to 01/21/2021 (Thursday) PT
• US Data Center Production: from 01/19/2021 (Tuesday) PT to 01/21/2021 (Thursday) PT

No service disruption is expected for this release.
Release Notes for release 290 will be published under Zuora Release Notes after Sandbox release.We will update the release status in the comments to this post.

As part of our upcoming January 2021 release of Zuora Billing, in order to improve the overall performance and stability, two new limits on the operations of AQuA / Data Source Export will be introduced in Zuora Billing tenants. 

We will be pushing a Zuora for Salesforce maintenance release (Quotes 9.31.1) to all 9.26.1+ Sandbox orgs after 6 pm Pacific on January 6, 2021.

We have optimized the UIs for the Configurable Lockbox feature of Collect. There are no functional changes, but some operation flows and UI labels have been changed.

For details about the release, see Zuora Collect Release Notes.

The planned deployment schedule is as follows:

• EU Cloud Sandbox Release: from 12/09/2020 (Wednesday) PT to 12/10/2020 (Thursday) PT
• US Cloud Sandbox Release: from 12/09/2020 (Wednesday) PT to 12/10/2020 (Thursday) PT
• US Data Center Sandbox Release: from 12/09/2020 (Wednesday) PT to 12/10/2020 (Thursday) PT
• EU Cloud Production Release: from 12/15/2020 (Tuesday) PT to 12/17/2020 (Thursday) PT
• US Cloud Production Release: from 12/15/2020 (Tuesday) PT to 12/17/2020 (Thursday) PT
• US Data Center Production: from 12/15/2020 (Tuesday) PT to 12/17/2020 (Thursday) PT

No service disruption is expected for this release.
Release Notes for release 289 will be published under Zuora Release Notes after Sandbox release.We will update the release status in the comments to this post.

The planned deployment schedule is as follows:

• EU Sandbox Release: from 11/04/2020 (Wednesday) PT to 11/05/2020 (Thursday) PT
• US Sandbox Release: from 11/04/2020 (Wednesday) PT to 11/05/2020 (Thursday) PT
• EU Production Release: from 11/10/2020 (Tuesday) PT to 11/12/2020 (Thursday) PT
• US Production Release: from11/10/2020 (Tuesday) PT to 11/12/2020 (Thursday) PT

• US Data Center Production Release: from 12/03/2020 (Thursday) PT to 12/04/2020 (Friday) PT
• EU Cloud Data Center Production Release: from 12/08/2020 (Tuesday) PT to 12/11/2020 (Friday) PT
• US Cloud Data Center Production Release: from 12/08/2020 (Tuesday) PT to 12/11/2020 (Friday) PT

No service disruption is expected for this release.
Release Notes for release 288 will be published under Zuora Release Notes after Sandbox release.We will update the release status in the comments to this post.

We plan to release an enhancement to the Advanced Payment Manager feature of Collect soon. With the enhancement, Advanced Payment Manager will accept direct debit payments. Currently, direct debit payments are rejected in Advanced Payment Manager.

The planned deployment schedule is as follows:
EU Sandbox Release: from 10/13/2020 (Tuesday) PT to 10/14/2020 (Wednesday) PT
US Sandbox Release: from 10/13/2020 (Tuesday) PT to 10/14/2020 (Wednesday) PT
EU Production Release: from 10/20/2020 (Tuesday) PT to 10/22/2020 (Thursday) PT
US Production Release: from 10/20/2020 (Tuesday) PT to 10/22/2020 (Thursday) PT

No service disruption is expected for this release.
Release Notes for release 287 will be published under Zuora Release Notes after Sandbox release.We will update the release status in the comments to this post.