WHMCS Usage Based Billing

PradeepC

Hello Team,

We are currently using cPanel and DirectAdmin along with Enhance. We focus on elastic hosting, where a customer pays the price depending on his use instead of a fixed pricing. With WHMCS we are able to configure usage based billing for both cPanel and DirectAdmin, but with Enhance, we do not see that option.

Could you please bring usage based billing with your WHMCS module?

Adam

It's possible in the future as all the info you could possibly need is exposed in the API.

All the other billing providers that support Enhance (Upmind, Blesta, Hostbill, Clientexec, etc) maintain their own module so they can add any functionality their customers require. However with WHMCS they are yet to develop a module so we provide a basic functional module instead. The ideal scenario would be for WHMCS to take over the module development as they have a much better understanding of their own software and (presumably) a large team of PHP developers.

PradeepC

Adam You are right, but I do not think WHMCS will develop their own!

jeff Indeed, true!

jeff

I wouldn't hold my breath that Webpros will support Enhance as they are trying to develop a competitive panel.

I think you're more likely to see ModulesGarden develop something.

8Dweb

jeff We have actually used ModulesGarden to write custom integration for some things, such as SmarterMail (back when we used it).

It might be better to reach out to ModulesGarden and request such and integration. They typically take 3-6 months to write a custom framework for things such as this, and in SOME cases, they will turn it down.

The main problem is the cost of the initial development. I am not sure at this point, I would want to front such a cost, particularly for truly open-source code...

I also, do not think that WebPros will be swift to write integration for a new panel such as Enhance. They barely maintain some of their others, such as the Interworx one. And even the Plesk one has some issues, thus why Plesk-Extended ifrom ModulesGarden is a better, but much pricier alternative.