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title: "CostGuard Version 19.8 Details"
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# CostGuard Version 19.8 Details

#### [CostGuard Version 19.8 Core Release Bulletin](https://cdn.us.document360.io/3f7f8ade-bcb1-4ec8-af25-0c0ad8601afb/Images/Documentation/19.8-Core-Release-Bulletin(1).pdf?sv=2026-02-06&spr=https&st=2026-11-14T11%3A15%3A47Z&se=2026-11-14T12%3A15%3A47Z&sr=c&sp=r&sig=CPqrFBWvdgkZDEpMtko%2FGVSFquwgRWAxkBvMZM4W%2F4Y%3D)

#### Change Orders:

| **Functional Area** | **AR/FR** | **Description** |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Orders | AR 8433 | **Auto-populate sales channel** – New setting in Orders web application to auto-populate sales associate field with the one assigned to the user entering the order. This applies when entering orders in the Orders web application and the Client. |
| Address Validation | FR 3035 | **Enhanced Address Validation** – IDI has released a new Address Validation Management Web Service as part of version 19.8. This new web service provides the same validation as US postal address functionality that has existed in the system previously. This includes validation using the US Postal Service database and/or through an interface to CoreLogic. The enhancements are: - **Platform Component**: The new web service is a Platform component. Enhancements and fixes for address validation will no longer require an environment to receive a Server upgrade. - **REST API:** Developers using the new Address Validation Web API will have access to a RESTful API rather than the existing SOAP-based web API. Based on customer feedback, IDI believes this will be welcomed as a much easier to use and familiar programming paradigm for most web developers. To give customers plenty of time to adapt, the new Web API, legacy SOAP API calls will continue to work until the point at which the older web service is permanently deprecated. The new RESTful API documentation is available on E-Support. - **Address Validation Logging**: Address validation logs will be available in a new Address Validation section of the Audit Log web application. This will replace using any legacy Report Explorer reports in the client to view the results of ongoing address validation requests. The new Address Validation GUI is described in Address Validation Log Search. |
| CostGuard Client Device Management | AR 8300 | **Releasing devices from their assigned services** – A new option in Device Management facilitates the process for releasing (disassociating) devices from their assigned services to make them available for use with another service. |
| Payment Processing | FR 3072 | **Removed legacy code around 4-digit credit card number** – When editing an E-Pay account, card numbers are masked. Prior to this enhancement, for card numbers of four or fewer digits, the first digit was replaced with an asterisk (*). This code was removed as the system only stores the last four digits and the web services do not store any asterisks in the card number. |
| AR 8437 | **Auto-Updater with Authorize.Net (Update of Credit Card Information)** – New REST end point returns EpayAccountID when an associated token is supplied. See API documentation for Balance Web Service for details. |
| AR 8481 | ***IsRecurring* Indicator** – Added IsRecurring property to: - the PaymentAccountTransaction Odata in the Customer Web Service - the PaymentAccountTransaction Created and Modified Trigger message This includes an update to when a payment is created via the nightly payment processing scheduled job. The update places *Recurring* at the beginning of the description so that it will display on the Balance tab. |
| Core Reports | AR 8460 | **Adjustments by Date report** – Added Market Name as a field and optional parameter. |
| PCI Compliance | FR 3069 | **Added support for connections using the TLS 1.2 protocol** – Impacts the Client. Web applications and platform applications. |

#### Resolved Known Issues

| Functional Area | PR | Description |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Customer Care | 83087 | On Corporate accounts the Disconnect date could not be modified when a disconnected child account was cloned. Now the system clears out the disconnect date when an account is cloned, allowing for it to be modified. |
| Rating & Billing | 83063 | When Alternate Invoice Number option was turned on, Batch Payment process wasn’t matching the payment using the Alternate Invoice number – An error was returned when an alt invoice number was used for the *applied to* invoice number and that number didn’t match the invoice number. Now the system catches exceptions and then attempts to get the invoice number from the alt invoice number. |
| 83081 | Corrected Auto-Generate Batch Number Logic in CostGuard Client. |
| 83097 | Updated billing tax logic so that *Includes County* flag is now evaluated per service for per-line taxes. |
| 83109 | Updated SQL for Tax Audit Log Services report that was preventing any Service that is taxing by Service Address from being returned in the report. |
| 83120 | Fixed the taxable charges on InvoiceTaxDetail for Usage charges which were discounted by volume discounting. |
| OnlineBill | 83073 | The following enhancements were made to add missing options in Contact State field: On the Admin > Configurations Page, added **Manage Contacts default Country Drop-down** – Defaults to **USA** but can be overridden by Environment or Market. Under Account Mgmt > Manage Contacts added a **Country** drop down for new/edit contacts screens. It defaults based on the **Manage Contacts default Country Drop-down** setting and is a required field. **Country** and **State** drop-downs are now populated by the TaxState API. The Country drop down selection is used to identify which states values are displayed in the state drop-down. The State drop-down displays the full state name (not the two-character abbreviation). Once the contact is saved, the address display will only show the two-character abbreviation. |
| 83133 | Fixed an issue that was preventing the export button from functioning. |
| Workflow | 83107 | Optimized the WorkItemInstances Odata to improve performance on Workflow Task search. |
| 83117 | Updated Export of Workflow definitions from FireFox to work correctly. |
| 83118 | Fixed issue filling in new extended data on sub-workflow step so that double entry is not required. |
| CostGuard Client | 83124 | Corrected rounding issue in the display of tax amounts when viewing Invoice Details in CostGuard Client |

#### Platform System Deployment Updates:

| Module | Target Deployment Updates |
| --- | --- |
| Security | 08/01/2019 |
| Workflow | 08/08/2019 |
| Bulk Data | 08/08/2019 |
| Audit Log | 08/08/2019 |
| Document Storage | 08/08/2019 |
| Communications | 08/14/2019 |
| Payment Gateway Application | 08/16/2019 |