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title: "What’s new in the 8x8 Cost Center?"
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# What’s new in the 8x8 Cost Center?

## What’s new in 8×8 Cost Center 2.1 release?

We are introducing the following enhancements and changes in our new **8x8 Cost Center** release:

- [Ability to assign cost centers at the user level.](/documentation/docs/assign-users-to-8x8-cost-center)
- [Ability to search users in the application and assign cost centers to them.](/documentation/docs/assign-users-to-8x8-cost-center#search-and-edit-user-assignments)
- [Ability to search assets in the application and assign cost centers to them.](/documentation/docs/assign-services-and-assets-to-8x8-cost-center#search-and-edit-asset-assignments)
- Enhanced user interface.

## 2.0 Release

- [Ability to manage cost centers in a hierarchical manner in line with your organizational structures.](/documentation/docs/independent-8x8-cost-centers#add-independent8x8-cost-centers-via-template)
- [Ability to define bills at a granular level allowing customers to completely customize their cost center organization and billing groupings](/documentation/docs/8x8-cost-center-view-billing-statements).
- [Improved bulk update capabilities for cost center management using a CSV template.](/documentation/docs/site-based-8x8-cost-centers)
- [Ability to name a contact and payment method for each cost center to better manage billing notifications and statements.](/documentation/docs/select-the-8x8-cost-center-billing-contact)
- [Improved asset management for billing using CSV templates.](/documentation/docs/assign-services-and-assets-to-8x8-cost-center)
- [Improved UI capabilities](/documentation/docs/access-your-8x8-billing-portal).