New Features and Enhancements in Billing Central Winter 2026

The following new features have been introduced in the Winter 2026 release of Billing Central.

If you are upgrading from a previous version, see Upgrading to Billing Central Winter 2026. This provides a summary of the items that have been added for each feature and details of any required upgrade steps.

If you are upgrading from a version earlier than Summer 2025, check the documentation for previous releases for upgrade details.

Before you upgrade to Winter 2026, we recommend you also check the new features and enhancements information for each incremental release. This information for the two most recent Billing Central releases can be found here:

Manage Billing Document to Avalara Mappings

We have improved the Billing Document (Invoice) Tax Mappings by adding the Description field to the list of target fields available in Avalara AvaTax. You can use this field to include account names that are greater than 50 characters in length on your Avalara documents, by mapping the Account Name field on the billing document to it.

Tip:

If you map the Account Name to the Description, you must retain the default Billing Account to Customer Code field mapping, because the Customer Code field is mandatory in Avalara AvaTax.

For more information, see Customizing Avalara AvaTax Tax Calculation Mappings.

Managing Billing Contracts

We have improved the process for ending billing contracts manually. If you have Accounting installed and create sales invoices for your contracts, you can now choose to have sales credit notes automatically created for any outstanding sales invoices when you end those contracts early. You can do this by enabling the new Auto Create SCR When Ending Contract field in the Billing Central Settings custom setting. This eliminates all the manual steps that were previously required. For more information, see Billing Central Settings.

We have also added two new picklist values to the Reason for Ending Contract field:

  • Bad debt
  • Early settlement

If you have enabled the Auto Create SCR When Ending Contract custom setting, the Credit Note Reason field on the sales credit note is populated with the selected picklist value. For more information, see Billing Contract Fields and Ending Contracts.

Existing customers must manually add these values to the Reason for Ending Contract and Credit Note Reason fields. For more information, see Upgrading to Billing Central Winter 2026.

Note:

This automation only applies to end a billing contract manually. If you end billing contracts using change requests, that process in unchanged.

Release Content

We want to help you find all of the information and resources that you need to use our products effectively.

In-App Guidance

Certinia in-app guidance uses Salesforce user engagement features to deliver Certinia content, such as tutorials and walkthroughs, directly from our products.

In this release, we've updated our in-app guidance. For more information, see Billing Central In-App Guidance.

Certinia Academy

If you want to learn more about the new features in this release, see the FM Cloud - Winter 2026 Release Highlights Certinia Academy module. This module will guide you through the new features in Financial Management Cloud.

Fixes

Fixes are listed on the Known Issues page of the Certinia Community. You can access this page from the Community Support Hub. For a brief description of the issues that have been fixed in this version of Billing Central, see the relevant section of the Known Issues page.