Aria6 Release 6.30

2/4/2015

Aria now supports First Data PayPoint as a payment gateway, providing the ability to create, retrieve, and charge a customer using various payment methods in U.S. currency. First Data PayPoint supports the following payment methods:

• Visa
• MasterCard
• American Express
• ACH/E-Check​
• Tokenized Credit Cards

This feature provides the ability to assign a contract to a plan that is not yet active, such as an anniversary plan and other queued plans that are pending assignment. The contract will then take effect when the queued plan becomes active. 

Accessing this Feature 
Getting Here: Click Accounts > search for and select an account > Plans & Services > Contracts > Create New Contract

1. Choose the contract scope and click Continue.
2. To apply the contract to a future plan, choose an option from the Service Plans Queued for Assignment drop-down.

This improvement allows you to generate on-demand invoices in advance of the allowed bill lag days for a billing anniversary date. The amount of time that an invoice may be generated in advance depends on the billing intervals of an account's purchased plans.

For example:

• For monthly plans, an invoice may be generated 27 days in advance of the next bill date.
• For quarterly plans, an invoice may be generated 88 days in advance of the next bill date.
• For semi-annual plans, an invoice may be generated 178 days in advance of the next billing date.
• For annual plans, an invoice may be generated 360 days in advance of the next billing date.
• For plans with custom billing intervals, an invoice may be generated 27 days in advance of the next billing date.

You can generate an advance invoice by navigating to Accounts > search for and select an account > Statements & Invoices > Invoices tab > click Generate Invoice.

This improvement allows you to specify whether plan unit changes should take effect on a future anniversary date or on another specified future date.

Accessing this Feature 
Getting Here: Click Accounts > search for and select and account > Plans & Services > Master Service Plan > Future Plan Changes.

This improvement modifies the display of proration on invoices generated from Aria. Improvements include:

• The display of the Proration Factor and Units for each line item on an invoice. Hovering your mouse over this displays a pop-up with the calculated charges of the prorated invoices.
• The inclusion of a Start Date and End Date for the Advance Period of prorated invoices.

This feature provides the ability to have two concurrent, active authorization keys for each account. Instead of a one-to-one relationship between authorization keys and client numbers, there are now two cycling authorization keys associated with a single client number. This cycling functionality allows you to generate a new authorization key that lives side-by-side with the existing key, thus mitigating the need to deploy code completely in-sync with an authorization key change in Aria. This provides an added security measure and prevents manual intervention from your support teams. 

Accessing this Functionality
Getting Here: Click Configuration > Integrations > Web Service API

This feature adds the 17-character PayPal Transaction ID to the following reports:

• Electronic Collection Status w/Pmt IDs
• Electronic Payment Detail
• All Payment Detail

The following two fields are now available in reports when a third-party tax engine is called and respond with <TaxDetail> elements:

• Juris Type - Displays the type of the tax jurisdiction.
• Juris Name - Displays the name of the tax jurisdiction.

Future maintenance to the Aria platform will be communicated using a notification on the Aria6 login screen. This notification will provide a brief overview of the intended site maintenance, as well as the anticipated date and time to allow you to plan accordingly.

• Performing Copy Configuration of Data from Source Client to Destination Client Failed to Load Event Notifications in Destination Client (TICKET-4898)
• Performing Copy Configuration of Data from Source Client to Destination Client Failed to Copy <EMAIL_TEMPLATE_STUBS> Table in Destination Client (TICKET-4908)
• Creating an Account with a Partial Billing Address Caused Error in the Avalara Tax Engine (TICKET-5037)
• Text and HTML Email Templates Failed to Display Properly Upon Being Edited in Aria6 (TICKET-5039)
• Issues Voiding Invoices on Child Accounts (TICKET-5070)
• UAL Configuration Failed to Save as Expected (TICKET-5110)
• Changing $0 Master Plans Generated Prorated Invoices with a Null Advance Period (TICKET-5113)
• Accounts With Updated Billing Contacts Received Error During Invoice Generation (TICKET-5115)
• Selecting a Plan in Aria Stage Future Generated an Error (TICKET-5169)
• "Invalid Form of Payment" Message Displayed when Changing Notification Method (TICKET-5239)
• Issues Displaying Multiple Tax Rates for Individual Tax Line Items on Statements (TICKET-5351)
• Error Prevented Users from Successfully Resetting Aria6 Password (TICKET-5595)
• Drop-down Menu Implemented for State Fields on Account Overview Screens (TICKET-5772)