Not wanting to bug support, but I got a message back from them that my renewal has been OK'd (thru JRRShop), but won't show until Sonar authorizes again.  What does that mean...or do I have to do anything?

I believe it means they have taken care of the membership date extension. On that day, you will probably need to run the Command Center to pickup the new membership date. The new date will not until then.

ok... I was thinking that somehow Sonar periodically checks to see if you're running a current version or not...so it can allow for notification updates, monthly payments,....stuff like that.  I guess we'll see what happens...when it happens!

Sounds like the way most magazine subscriptions work. If you renew before the current term has expired, they charge you at once, but do not send you two issues during the overlap period. Instead they start a new subscription term with the first issue that comes out after the old subscription expires and move the end date of the new subscription forward another year. If so that is expected behavior.