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Segmentable Inventory
Managing your inventory is a crucial part of maintaining your momentum. With Sonar, inventory management is made easy with trackable and segmentable items.
By adding inventory such as cable spools into Sonar as Segmentable Inventory, you can improve the categorization of fiber and network cables by splitting them into smaller, individual pieces; assign metadata to each segment; and track the location of where each custom piece was deployed.


Sonar's FCC Broadband Label Generation Tool
In this cast, we’ll walk you through the steps in gathering your FCC Broadband Consumer Labels report, provide you with a Data Entry guide, and give you access to Sonar's FCC Broadband Label Generation Tool and how to use it!


Vetro FiberMap Integration


Filtering Overview
We're excited to announce a major upgrade to Sonar Software's filtering capabilities! This updated feature introduces a unified system that combines simple and advanced filters, a new easy-to-navigate collapsible design, and an enhanced search bar for quickly finding and applying filters.
Designed for simplicity and ease of use, our new filtering system empowers you to find the exact information you need within your Sonar instance, in just a few clicks!


Account Management View


Scheduling Week View: Overview


Edit Job Options


Invoice Templates


Account Management View Series - The Correspondence, Contacts, Custom Fields, and All Logs Tabs


Using Sonar's Customer Portal
This cast will walk you through the various pages and tabs available within the Customer Portal and provide some examples of common actions you can take.


Using Parent Tickets


Using Outbound SMS


User Profile: Your Personal User Settings


Triggered Messages


Tracking and Using Consumable Inventory
This cast will provide a brief overview of the Generic Items tag in Sonar's Inventory feature, and how it can be used to track consumable items for your business.


Tower Coverage Integration


Ticketing Interface
This cast provides a general overview of the ticketing system within Sonar, as well as ways to interact with tickets and ticket features.


Ticketing Categories - Best Practices
Configuring an inbound mailbox allows you to receive incoming emails directly into Sonar, which can be automatically converted into public tickets within the system. This cast outlines how inbound mailboxes work, detailing the process behind creating a new ticket category, and providing some examples of common ticket categories.
This cast also discusses the creation of ticket groups, providing use cases for various groups, and examples of common public and private groups.


The Map Interface Overview


Task Templates
This cast takes you through the process of adding task templates to your instance and provides some examples of where they can be applied.


Tasks


The Sonar Status Page
This cast provides an overview of the Sonar Status page, as well as how you can subscribe to updates for any incidents or events that occur.


How to View and Have a Customer Sign a Contract - Sonar Field Tech App
This cast provides an easy how-to guide on how to view and have a customer sign a contract through the Sonar field tech mobile app.


How to Generate a One-Time Invoice - Sonar Field Tech App
This cast provides an easy how-to guide on generating a one-time invoice through the Sonar field tech mobile app.


How to Take a Customer Payment - Sonar Field Tech App


How to Assign IP Addresses - Sonar Field Tech App


How to Unassign Equipment from an Account - Sonar Field Tech App


How to Assign Equipment to an Account - Sonar Field Tech App


Add a Credit Card as a Customer Payment Method - Sonar Field Tech App


Add a Bank Account as a Customer Payment Method - Sonar Field Tech App


Sonar Field Technician App


SMS Notifications


Setting up Payment Methods & Taking Payments


Setting Up Bank Account & Credit Card Processors


Services Overview


Serviceable Addresses


Scheduling Addresses, Availabilities, Blockers & Time Off


Scheduled Events


Roles and Users


Purchase Orders


Outbound Domains


Notification Preferences


Network Sites Management View


Network Sites List View


Network Dashboard


Multi-Month Billing and Multi-Month Services


Message Categories


Learning with Sonar: Tools and Resources
This cast details the various learning resources available within your Sonar instance.


Jobs and Scheduling Overview


Invoice Messages


Invoice Attachments


Inventory System Setup


Inventory Model Management


Inventory List Overview


How to Create a Report - Sonar's Business Intelligence
**The reporting dashboards within Sonar have been updated since the release of this video. Due to that, some of the screens shown in this video do not currently reflect the active dashboards you see in Sonar today. We are working to update our resources and will make them available once complete.**
This cast guides you through the creation process for a custom report, as well as how to publish the report and share it with other users of your Sonar instance.


How to Best Use Global Search


Future Serviceable Addresses


Feedback Portal & Suggest a Feature
This cast provides an overview of the Feedback Portal and how you can utilize it to submit and upvote feature requests.


Creating a New Account


Creating and Booking a Job


Child Accounts


Canned Replies
This cast walks you through the process of creating Canned Replies - highlighting the use cases and providing links to the detailed examples page.
This cast also details the steps required to create a Canned Reply category from start to finish, while providing examples of common Canned Reply categories used in customer instances.


Calix Integration


Print to Mail


Phone Number Types


Notes


Navigating the Reports Dashboard - Sonar's Business Intelligence
**The reporting dashboards within Sonar have been updated since the release of this video. Due to that, some of the screens shown in this video do not currently reflect the active dashboards you see in Sonar today. We are working to update our resources and will make them available once complete.**
This cast outlines the steps used to navigate the dashboard and how to filter the data in an individual report, including the options available to download and/or send the data elsewhere.


Mass Messages


Job Types - Best Practices


IPAM Overview


Invoices in Sonar


GoCardless Integration


Getting Started with Taxes


Geofences


Enhanced Business Intelligence - Tips & Tricks for Advanced Users
In this cast, we explore some caveats and suggestions for getting the most out of your BI Reporting through some advanced tips and tricks!


Elevation Tool Overview


Disconnecting an Account


Custom Fields
Custom Fields provide a way to track unique data on various entities within Sonar. This cast details the steps involved in setting them up, in addition to a few use cases that outline the usefulness of custom fields.


Contract Templates


Company Setup
This cast will take you through the process of adding a new company to your Sonar instance, with details on the various fields required.


Call Logs


Building a Monitoring Template


Building Alerting Rotations


Building a Data Service


Billing Settings
This cast reviews and breaks down the various Billing Parameters available in Sonar.


Billing Defaults


Batch Payments and Deposit Slips


Avalara


Anchor & Linked Serviceable Addresses - Part 2


Anchor & Linked Serviceable Addresses - Part 1


Advanced Ticketing Features


Account Management View Series - The Tickets and Jobs Tabs


Account Management View Series - The Overview Tab


Account Management View Series - The Network & Inventory Tab

