2026.Q4 release
Learn about new features, changes, fixes, and deprecations delivered in a product release and release updates for Zuora Billing, CPQ, Payments, Platform, Revenue, and Zephr.
Zuora publishes release notes in advance of delivery to sandbox environments to allow additional time to review and test new and changed features before they are released to production environments. These release notes are subject to changes and additions after publishing. Any changes or additions that occur after the initial publish for a particular release version are noted with a date in the Updated column in each release note table.
Customer-impacting changes delivered after the initial major release, as part of minor or patch releases during the quarter, are also added to the release notes. The minor and patch release notes are listed in order starting from the most recent release version at the top of each table. The specific minor or patch release version is noted in the Updated column. An empty Updated column indicates that the release note applies to the major release and was not added or changed after the initial publish date.
AI in Zuora
Lists release notes for features that apply AI in Zuora in 2026.Q4 product release.
New and changed features
Zuora AI ships new capabilities weekly through in-product release notes in Command Center. The table below summarizes major AI features and improvements delivered since Augut 20, 2026. For the full weekly changelog, see What's New in Command Center.
To learn where and how AI is currently used in Zuora products, see Use of AI in Zuora.
| Feature | Description | Updated |
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| Revenue AI audit trail | Zuora AI and Zuora MCP now record Revenue agent read and write actions in a queryable audit trail in Zuora Revenue. The audit trail includes the user who initiated each operation and the Revenue objects affected. | Released on: August 27, 2026 |
| Report discovery and creation | You can now describe the report you need, and Zuora AI selects a dataset, assembles and validates a report definition, previews the result, and provides an Open in Report Builder link. Before drafting a report, Zuora AI searches standard, owned, and shared reports for a match. When more than one report layout is possible, Zuora AI asks you to confirm which layout to use. | Released on: September 17, 2026 |
| Narrative summaries in Zuora Reporting | A Narrative Summary in Zuora Reporting now explains what an existing report measures and how the report is configured, including groupings, measures, and filters. | Released on: August 27, 2026 |
| Custom Logic draft simulation | Zuora AI now simulates Custom Logic drafts automatically before saving them. The simulation explains failures more clearly and prevents a working function from being overwritten by a broken draft. | Released on: August 27, 2026 |
| Subscription ramp insights | The subscription ramp timeline now reflects each ramp interval with its total contracted billing and contracted value, including ramps that do not align with calendar months. An AI Insights button next to Ramp Intervals now opens a Zuora AI conversation about the subscription's ramp. | Released on: September 17, 2026 |
| Revenue Data Query in Zuora MCP | Revenue workflows invoked through Zuora MCP can now use Data Query to answer aggregate, filtered, and trend-based revenue questions. | Released on: August 27, 2026 |
| Revenue query routing improvements | Zuora AI and Zuora MCP now distinguish more accurately when to use Object Query or Data Query for Revenue questions. You get more accurate lookup and analytical results. | Released on: September 10, 2026 |
| Revenue query validation messages | Invalid column or relationship references in Revenue queries now return clear guidance instead of raw schema errors. | Released on: August 27, 2026 |
| Revenue report execution and tracking | Zuora AI now returns the full set of active report layouts and registers submitted Revenue reports so that you can trace runs in report status views. Reports that use default filter configurations now run correctly when you do not specify every filter explicitly. | Released on: September 10, 2026 |
| Period-end accounts receivable snapshot basis | Period-end accounts receivable snapshots now include only posted and processed documents. Figures for the same period can differ from the previous release. | Released on: August 27, 2026 |
| Record lookup from identifiers | You can now enter an invoice number, account name, email address, subscription number, or another identifier, and Zuora AI finds the matching records and links you to them. Record lookup is available from Ask Zuora AI on the homepage and from chat. | Released on: September 3, 2026 |
| Report run summaries | You can now ask Zuora AI for an executive financial summary of a completed report run instead of opening an export to interpret the results. | Released on: September 3, 2026 |
| Revenue contract linking and delinking | You can now ask Zuora AI to link or delink revenue transactions at the revenue contract, performance obligation, charge, or subscription level. Zuora AI shows a preview before you approve the change. | Released on: September 3, 2026 |
| Revenue manual journal entries in Zuora MCP | Revenue manual journal entries are now available end to end through Zuora MCP, including create, read, amend, validate, and workflow actions. | Released on: September 3, 2026 |
| File attachments in Zuora AI | You can now attach one or more files and send them without typing a message for Zuora AI to review. You can also attach an exported workflow definition and ask Zuora AI to import or adapt the definition in the Workflow assistant. | Released on: September 10, 2026 |
| Workflow conversation context | Follow-up questions that you ask while building a workflow now continue from the workflow you were already working on. | Released on: September 10, 2026 |
| Revenue contract search improvements | Revenue contract search is now faster and more accurate, with clearer routing between lookup and analytical queries. Search now handles date windows and variable consideration amounts more accurately. | Released on: September 10, 2026 |
| Read-only permissions for the Workflow and Mediation assistants | Read-only Zuora AI settings are now enforced on every Workflow assistant and Mediation assistant request. | Released on: September 10, 2026 |
| Revenue report and job summary security | Additional safeguards now protect Revenue report summarization and scheduled job summary workflows in Zuora AI. | Released on: September 10, 2026 |
| Data Loader in Zuora AI | In Supervised mode, Zuora AI now supports Data Loader for high-volume creates and updates. Attach a file, review the proposed object mapping, and validate each row against your tenant's fields, picklists, and required-field rules before you confirm and submit. | Released on: September 17, 2026 |
| Revenue AI Insights panels | AI Insights panels on the Manual Journal Entry and Transfer Accounting pages in Zuora Revenue now summarize what a journal entry represents, which accounts are affected, and the net financial impact. The panels also summarize the period's inter-segment and inter-entity transfer activity. | Released on: September 24, 2026 |
| Variable Consideration write action preview | Variable Consideration write actions now show a pre-execution impact preview before you approve a change, including what changes and what to watch for. | Released on: September 17, 2026 |
| User memory and forget confirmation | Zuora AI can now remember your preferences and apply them in later conversations. When you ask Zuora AI to forget a preference, Zuora AI identifies the preference it found and asks you to confirm before removing it. | Released on: October 1, 2026 |
| Stop button | You can now stop a Zuora AI response while the response is being generated. The composer shows Stopping… until the interruption is confirmed, and the conversation records that the response was interrupted. | Released on: September 24, 2026 |
| Full screen mode for standalone Revenue tenants | Revenue tenants that are not connected to a Billing tenant can now open Zuora AI in full screen mode. Previously, these tenants could use only the side panel. | Released on: September 24, 2026 |
| Revenue flux analysis | You can now ask period-over-period questions directly in the Zuora Revenue AI chat panel. Zuora AI explains movement in revenue, deferred revenue, contract liability, unbilled receivables, and related balances, and identifies the customers, contracts, products, and GL accounts behind the change. For balance-related questions, Zuora AI starts flux analysis on the first turn. | Released on: October 1, 2026 |
| Report and schedule deletion | You can now ask Zuora AI to delete a saved report or stop one of its schedules. Before removing anything, Zuora AI confirms whether you mean the report or only the schedule and shows what is deleted. | Released on: October 1, 2026 |
| Revenue parent and child job visibility | When you ask about Revenue jobs, Zuora AI now distinguishes parent jobs from child jobs so that you can see how a parent job breaks down into its child jobs. | Released on: October 1, 2026 |
| Business-readable Revenue Data Query results | Revenue Data Query results no longer include internal reference IDs. Results now show business-readable fields only. | Released on: October 1, 2026 |
Billing
Presents release notes and resolved issues for Zuora Billing in 2026.Q4 product release.
New and changed features
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Invoicing and Tax |
Zuora Billing now supports the Kintsugi tax-compliance integration through Configurable Tax Apps. The integration sends eligible transaction data to Kintsugi for tax calculation and writes the returned tax amount, tax rate, jurisdiction, tax code, and related tax details to Zuora billing documents. |
2026.Q4.0.0 Added: October 08, 2026 |
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Invoicing and Tax |
Zuora now supports deleting Summary Statement Runs that were created in error, such as runs that contain empty statements. You can delete a run when its status is Completed, Error, or Terminated. Deleting a run also deletes all Summary Statements associated with it, and the deleted records are no longer displayed in the Zuora UI or retrievable through the API. To use this capability, users must have the Delete Summary Statement Run permission. This permission is disabled by default. |
2026.Q4.0.0 Added: October 08, 2026 |
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Commitments |
With this release, Zuora Commitments no longer requires a separate billing rule to create overlapping commitments. When Commitments is enabled for a tenant, you can create overlapping commitments. Zuora processes overlapping commitments in waterfall mode by default. When you define an explicit parent-child relationship, Zuora uses nested commitment behavior. | |
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Invoicing and Tax |
Zuora has enhanced Overview of Tax apps to support the isAssociatedCredit field in the context object for rendering tax app templates. The isAssociationCredit field indicates whether a billing document item is a credit applied to a previously billed charge. You can customize your tax template to include the appropriate fields in the request payload, based on this field. For example, E911/E988 flat-fee charges calculate tax based on line-item quantity. A mid-period quantity change may result in a zero-amount credit item. This field can help distinguish whether the line item represents a charge or a credit. | |
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Invoicing and Tax |
Zuora has enhanced Configurable Tax Apps to support the default sold to address of invoice owner account in the context object for rendering tax app templates. In addition to the item-level sold-to address of the end customer, the default sold-to address of the invoice owner account is now available for customizing tax app templates. This provides additional flexibility when a single invoice includes both telecommunication and service products that require tax calculations based on the address of the end customer and the address of the seller, respectively. | |
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Invoicing and Tax |
Zuora has enhanced e-reporting support for Spain. You can now use Spain-specific reporting templates with billing documents to support Spain e-reporting workflows. Zuora also adds the authority_status field to Business Lifecycle and E-Reporting objects. This field captures the status returned by the tax authority separately from the internal business status, providing clearer visibility into e-reporting processing. | |
Order to Revenue | Deplete enhancement Partial Deplete support is now available for Prepaid with Drawdown (PPDD). You can specify the deplete date/quantity/amount and use a configurable setting to distinguish Deplete event type in Revenue Recognition events. | 2026.Q4.0.0 Added: October 12, 2026 |
Billing 2026.Q4 fixes
There are currently no fixes reported for Zuora Billing in 2026.Q4.
CPQ
Presents release notes and resolved issues for Zuora CPQ in 2026.Q4 product release.
The Q4 release notes will be published when the package becomes available in late October 2026.
New and changed features
There are currently no new or changed features reported for CPQ in the 2026.Q4 release.
CPQ 2026.Q4 fixes
There are currently no fixes reported for CPQ in the 2026.Q4 release.
Payments
Lists release notes and resolved issues for Zuora Payments in 2026.Q4 product release.
New and changed features
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Payments |
The negative line item enhancement is now available automatically for tenants with Invoice Settlement and Invoice Item Settlement enabled. No manual feature enablement or Product approval is required. Tenants without both capabilities continue to use the existing behavior. | |
Payments | Payment Profiles now support processing negative line items for tenants with both IS and IIS enabled. Tenants without both capabilities continue to use the existing behavior. |
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AR Aging Snapshot |
Zuora now supports foreign exchange (FX) conversion into the reporting currency for AR Aging Snapshot data sources and the standard AR Aging Detail - Time Based report template. The backend billing processor automatically calculates and captures reporting currency FX amounts and rates during snapshot generation. This enables the finance teams in multi-currency environments to view, aggregate, and reconcile point-in-time receivables in their standardized corporate reporting currency alongside transaction and home currencies. |
Payments 2026.Q4 fixes
There are currently no fixes reported for Zuora Payments in 2026.Q4.
Platform
Lists release notes and resolved issues for Zuora Platform in 2026.Q4 product release.
New and changed features
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Mediation |
Expanded notifications for Mediation. Mediation now provides more visibility into usage processing and audit trail exports:
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Zuora Unified Experience |
With this release, administrators can create and publish custom widgets to the Global Homepage. Standard users can also create custom widgets, but they can only save them for personal use. Create Custom HTML widgets to add tailored content, or create Embedded Content widgets to display approved external dashboards. Preview widgets before publishing, choose an available widget size, and save widgets for personal use. Published widgets are shared with users in the current tenant according to their permissions. | |
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Integration Hub |
Integration Hub now supports partition filters in the Platform Assets UI, allowing you to include only the portions of a collection payload that match your defined criteria. This extends filtering capabilities beyond job-level filters. | |
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Deployment Manager |
Deployment Manager now supports migrating Zuora Revenue configurations across environments. Supported Revenue configurations include:
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Deployment Manager |
Deployment Manager now supports pre-validation of Revenue configurations on the Select screen. Pre-validation helps identify and resolve configuration issues before processing or deployment. | |
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Deployment Manager |
Deployment Manager now supports deployments that include discount rate plan charges and commerce product catalog components. | |
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Custom Logic |
You can now use Zuora AI to build Custom Logic rules by describing your business logic in natural language. The Custom Logic workflow in Zuora AI includes the following capabilities:
This empowers users without coding or Zuora object model expertise to build Custom Logic rules on their own. | |
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OneID |
OneID AI Chat is now available in Zuora OneID. You can provision users, assign tenant access and roles, manage groups, and perform lifecycle actions by describing the change in natural language, instead of completing a form for every change. OneID AI Chat previews each change for your confirmation, operates within your existing permissions, and records each change in the audit trail. | |
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OneID |
Observability Connector is now available. You can push Zuora OneID and Zuora Billing audit events, including logins, settings changes, and object changes, to Splunk or Datadog on a schedule that you set from every 5 minutes to daily, and you can select which streams and users to include. Zuora delivers the events on that schedule, so you no longer need manual exports or custom integrations. Observability Connector encrypts credentials and excludes them from logs. |
Platform 2026.Q4 fixes
There are currently no fixes reported for Zuora Platform in 2026.Q4.
Revenue
Presents release notes and resolved issues for Zuora Revenue in 2026.Q4 product release.
New and changed features
| Feature | Description | Updated |
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Unsatisfied POB Report traceability fields | Enhanced the Unsatisfied POB Report by adding the RC POB ID and RC POB Lead Line ID fields. You can now use these identifiers to trace each unsatisfied POB balance to its related revenue contract POB and the lead line in case of multiple POB lines, making it easier to investigate records, validate report results, and support reconciliation. | |
Allocated unreleased amount in the RC Hold/Release Report | The RC Hold/Release Report now includes an Allocated Unreleased Amount column, providing visibility into revenue allocated to a revenue contract that has not yet been released. | |
Configurable revenue rounding for Japanese compliance |
Zuora Revenue now supports configurable revenue rounding methods to satisfy Japanese currency requirements. You can configure revenue amounts to use Round Up, Round Down, or Half Up rounding, applying the selected method independently (currently supported via the backend). Revenue reports display these rounded values, and all rounding configurations and updates are tracked for audit purposes. This enhancement enables Japanese organizations to reduce manual calculations and ERP adjustment entries, align with local accounting practices, and improve reconciliation efficiency | |
Credit-based usage recognition for prepaid drawdown products | Zuora Revenue now supports credit-based usage recognition for prepaid drawdown products. Credit values from Billing are mapped to Revenue, and revenue is recognized based on consumed credits rather than quantities. Credits can include tokens, bonus points, or other units. This capability validates credit quantities against sales order quantities to ensure accurate revenue release. | |
Updated column names for Data Query objects | Zuora Revenue now uses clearer column names for some Data Query objects and corrects previous typos. This recent change affects the column names used in Data Query and Data Query Utility. For example, the Id column in the If you use the affected objects and column names in Data Query or Data Query Utility, update your saved data queries to use the new column names. Otherwise, your queries might fail. Note: This change does not affect synchronization with Secure Share for Zuora Revenue . | |
Manual journal entry enhancements | Zuora Revenue now includes enhancements that make it easier to create, review, and process manual journal entries. With these enhancements, you can:
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Revenue 2026.Q4 fixes
For the list of resolved issues, see in the Support Center. Additional logon information may be required to access the Zendesk portal.
Zephr
Presents release notes and resolved issues for Zephr in 2026.Q4 product release.
New and changed features
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Zephr 2026.Q4 fixes
There are currently no fixes reported for Zephr in 2026.Q4.
API
Lists updates on REST API, Quickstart API, and SOAP API in 2026.Q3 product release.
REST API
For the detailed API documentation, see API Reference.
For a summary of REST API updates and documentation updates in the Zuora API Reference, see API Changelog.
Quickstart API
Zuora offers two sets of APIs for Billing, Payments, and Platform: the v1 API (the REST API) and the Quickstart API.
Zuora's v1 API provides complete coverage to our Zuora Billing, Payments, and Platform features. Zuora's Quickstart API represents a simplified programmatic experience and a subset of coverage for common e-commerce use cases. While often erroneously referred to as the v2 API, the Quickstart API is NOT a replacement for the v1 API and is no longer recommended for new integrations. See Quickstart API Reference.
Developers who need to access the full breadth of Zuora Billing, Payments, and Platform functionalities should use the v1 API, or our v3 SDKs (v1 for C# SDK) that are built on the v1 API.
SOAP API
Current WSDL version: 157
For more information, see SOAP API.
SOAP API change history
For a summary of updates made to the SOAP API in recent Zuora releases, see Zuora SOAP API Version History.