On August 22, 2011 Avangard Services, Inc. announced the release of AVA Hosted 1.5.12 with the following functionalities:

New Features

• Destinations – new functionality which consolidates all destinations in the system by prefix to allow coherent representation of data and workflow
• Destination Groups– new functionality which allows improved tariff management experience: create destination groups to easily filter existing or generate surrogate destinations; link tariffs; and apply markup on carrier rates to generate billing rates etc.
• Proration of custom charges – enhanced the custom charges functionality to allow proration; granular recurrence management; improvements to itemization of custom charges per account
• Customizable Invoice Layout – allows granular customizations of what sections of the invoice to be printed in the PDF invoices
• Reverse of un-invoiced transactions – allows correction of un-invoiced transactions in the current billing period
• Account Locking – functionality to lock accounts based on prorated balance; locked accounts continue to be billed but cannot use the service; accounts can be manually locked and unlocked
• Account Beginning Balance – ability to specify opening balance for new accounts
• Block routes -  functionality to allow blocking of specific destinations within route sets
• Invoice on account deactivation - functionality to generate closing invoice on account deactivation
• Residual Balance Report – revenue assurance report to show all inactive accounts outstanding balances
• System Jobs Report – the report allows administrators to monitor and control execution of automated jobs and manual CLI utilities; jobs can be started and stop from the UI
• CDRs, Reports and downloaded files to be based on disconnect time
• CDR Lookup jobs – functionality to generate large CDR lookup requests in the background
• Limit Buy Credit by day – CRM portal module to limit the total top up amount per day per account
• Automatic Recharge of balance after invoice generation in CRM portal
• Username Retrieval – CRM portal module for end users to retrieve their username by email

Enhancements

• System Log Report – optimized performance, added more useful information about process execution
• Activity Log Report – enhanced report performance and added new information such as user IP etc.
• Account invoices performance optimizations and display improvements
• CDR Lookup Report – improvements to View Details, added Account ID and Carrier ID, Session Duration
• Account Call History Report – enhancements and display optimization
• Routing - improved the functionality to better handle large data sets
• View rates - improved the functionality to better handle large data sets
• Custom charges – functionality to allow setting manual effective dates
• Invoices – added fields for VAT Number and PayPal payment details
• Multiple UI enhancements – e.g. progress indicator in data grids; double click functionality, etc.
• Yate Cluster - functionality to use multiple Yate MySQL CDR servers and monitor in real time reports; functionality to use OpenSIPs as dispatcher and load balancer of YATE cluster for large production environments