Nextjs + Enhance + Stripe

Vortex

Haiaa!
I’ve been working on a more reliable and scalable solution after the WooCommerce integration, specifically designed for Enhance. I’d love to hear your ideas or any features you’d like to see implemented!

Technologies used:
NextJS with TSX & Tailwind
Prisma
NextAuth
Resend for emails

Implemented:

Branding customization from your Control Panel (colors, logo, name, emails, border radius, etc.) – all cached.
Subscriptions with suspension, upgrades etc. and functional provision
SSO login for panel
Ticketing system
Websites
Plan categories
Proper provision of apps according to plans
Sync of existing customers websites & account
Intergation with stripe dashboard & invoices
Proper webhook for stripe, so even if its cancelled through stripe subscription will be suspended at the end of period

To be implemented:
SSO for wordpress
SSO for emails
Domain provisions with a global profit margin or per website(was thinking namecheap)

Well enhance api is great! But i dont think a billing platform would need more things to be managed through there..
Was thinking if cPFence had a API we could intergate that too for customers and admins.
Up to you fellas!
Some images of the project till now! No idea of the release date...

Aliysa_Enhance

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cPFence

Vortex

Looks great! Good luck with your new project.

JohnB

Vortex Glad to see a not Woocommerce version as that shouldn't be used for this (security nightmware). Looks great. Hopefully more people make use of the Enhance API.

One warning about Stripe is they now want access 24/7 to your bank account or 6-9 months of bank statements to "make sure you always keep enough funds to cover chargebacks" even if you have years of no chargebacks. Such an abuse of privacy. Currently its "optional" but they can hold funds for 90 days according to their terms...

Their help page is written like they are the poor victim and must do this because chargebacks cost them money bluh bluh bluh. Poor Stripe suffering so much.

Kosta

Good work

gmakhs

That looks oddly familiar 🙂 Flowbite?

It looks Great, but unfortunately companies or individuals that handle multiple apis might have difficulties using it instead of using Blesta or whmcs or other options, i suggest maybe integrate your Frontend also with those Applications APIs so its more Universal, this way you will focus on Great design and not on invoicing, and provisioning

Vortex

gmakhs
Chadcn mostly, now that you mentioned flowbite might use some of their components though in the future.

Well i had more in mind persons who would like just to sell through enhance.. i am not building a multimillion billing platform for hosting companies.. at least for now 😅

Idea is: you set up your enhance server, add stripe + enhance keys to my project and you ready to sell.
🤔

gmakhs

Vortex most people don't sell only enhance, they sell many other things like domains , custom integration's and different panels, isos they have to follow , billing regulations etc so this will be the biggest con of your billing app, and will need a lot of development, if it's not open source I see needing a team just to catch up with the basics .

But if you offer the stand alone version, but also offer the front end as a theme for whmcs , blesta, client exec etc using the Apis those apps provide to handle the data, you will be able to reach a broader audience .

It is just a suggestion and food for thought, as an idea looks great

Vortex

Aliysa_Enhance Thank you.

gmakhs Yeah, you’re totally right. it would need a lot of work to include everything you mentioned and make it perfect. Honestly, this is just a side project, and I’ve been thinking about open-sourcing it anyway. That way, if others find it useful, they can help improve it too. But really, my main goal was pretty simple: I just wanted to help people who need a clean Stripe integration for their admin panel. I’ve seen so many lads in the community asking for that, and not everyone wants (or can afford) those big, expensive billing platforms. Plus, it’s been a fun way to level up my own skills while building something (useful or useless not for me to decide haha).Right now, I’m mostly focused on making sure what’s already there is rock-solid and secure. If people end up using it and want more features, we can always build from there!

NetPeople

i love the idea of the panel for enhance, but there is a lot more i think. for example:

import from the enhance CP. We have a bunch of servers allready and these are manually added SO i do not want to manually add them to a panel, the panel of choise should ahve a import function.
there are a massive amount of domainproviders, we use three, like openprovider, realtime register and Versio these need to be integrated, Same goes for Payment providers and payment options.

Then we didn't hit the things about PEppol, actually obligatory from 1/1/2026 in europe for B2B transactions.

Vortex

NetPeople
Hi,
Do you mean something like auto-provisioning servers lets say from OVHcloud and then installing the Enhance Panel if resources are limited?
Or you mean servers already in Enhance Panel ? If its about the existing ones, current state doesnt manage admin feautures of Enhance Panel , since there is no need, you can do it from Enhance panel, why add an extra step? But existing customers according to their emails are validated and imported to my panel and synced.

About domain provider, as i mentioned might implement one for now, before release. I am already thinking of Openprovider because of their API.

Payment options are out of discussion for now, stripe will remain since it can handle most of use-cases + invoicing. Bank transfers, Card payments, Apple & Google pay etc..

This is not going to be a SAAS .. so if you have developers in your team any implemention can be added easily.
Will be setting up a demo in the following days.

Andrei

It looks great. It's an excellent solution for someone who wants to simplify the sale of managed WordPress hosting services without getting into domains or anything else.

I would make it exclusively a billing dashboard, adding more integrations beyond Stripe, like Paddle or Lemon Squeezy. I wouldn't build a ticketing system. But that's just my take on it.

Vortex

Andrei exactly , can be used by agencies for example.. and since it has and a landing page they can work on that too.
I have already added a mini page builder drag & drop, and analytics from vercel or google.
We will see though 😅
Any functionality that you would like to see?

Andrei

Vortex In my imaginary scenario, it would be just a minimalist backend that ties Enhance to Stripe (or, better yet, Paddle).

I think, if I had to make up a scenario, that I would be using WordPress as a website to present the plans, features, pricing, documentation, blog, etc..

The pricing table buttons would be linked to the buy links from Paddle, the backend (your dash) creating the organization, and package in Enhance after payment, sending an email with the password to the client or just SSO to Enhance. Client should be able to upgrade/downgrade, pay invoices, cancel service, the basic stuff. That would be pretty much it for the backend, for me it doesn't need to do more.

I would use Fernand for support, which already integrates with Stripe/Paddle/Lemon Squeezy.

That's what I can think of right now, on the top of my head.

Vortex

Andrei never heard of Fernand, if its this https://getfernand.com/pricing/ then it looks good..
Might add and paddle, its a really good platform
Lemon Squeezy does not accept hosting companies, i contacted them few months ago. I dont know if that has changed.

Andrei

Vortex Yes, that's Fernand.

I like Paddle because it takes off the burden of billing and taxes, especially if you grow and sell in many countries. And it's not much more expensive than Stripe. Stripe is only cheaper if you just accept payments, but if you enable invoicing, taxes, subscriptions, etc., it becomes almost as expensive as Paddle.

I've had a Lemon Squeezy account for years but never used it. They have a problem with web hosting because they see it as a high-risk, low-price kind of thing.

I think I explained to them that our prices are higher (starting at $15) and we don't do marketing tricks that attract newbies who are playing around and have a higher chance of asking for refunds or chargebacks. I've had the same conversation with Paddle; I've shown them that in all our years in business (since 2007), we've only had one chargeback in Stripe, so they said OK, you're accepted.

So there's a bit of room to negotiate with them, but probably not if you're selling cheap hosting. Actually, these solutions (Lemon Squeezy and Paddle) don't even make sense when you're selling cheap plans, the commision gets way too high.

thisisviniciusnascimento

@Vortex A great project, I would love to know if you will commercialize it. I see a great business with this in Brazil, I'm a business man, if there's an opportunity, I'll be there.

Vortex

JohnB

Yes a Wordpress plugin would be "easier" but not "safer" !
We should setup a gofundme 🫰

gmakhs

JohnB never heard a legitimate business having issues with charge backs neither stripe .

Now in case you are a legitimate business having issues , there are anti fraud services and also stripe offers charge back protection services, just activate it and use their hosted check out .

Though not accepting any client without screening , not offering free or super cheap services usually prevents most charge backs, I have like 8 chargebacks, 6 of them I won in 14 years