DesignShrine Reseller Hosting now offers WHMCS billing manager to its clients -
June 5, 2008 - Web hosting provider Design Shrine Host (designshrinehost.com) announced on May 25th that it has added new billing software for all its reseller and dedicated hosting plans. The software is available to all new and existing customers for only $13.95/mo.
After negotiations, DesignShrineHost has partnered with WHMCS (www.WHMCS.com) and is offering the licensed billing solution WHMCompleteSolution to provide it at discount for all of its clients. WHMCS provides automated, flexible and easy-to-use client management and billing for Web hosts and online businesses with the following features:
WHMCS is a powerful integrated client management, billing & support system. It provides everything our clients need to manage their clients. Packed with features while remaining easy to use.
Products and Services
- Supports products of any type - not just hosting!
- Free, One Time & Recurring Billing Cycles
- Prorata Billing Support (One Day Billing)
- Configurable Options for products which increase/decrease the price
- Custom Field support allowing you to collect specific data from a customer
- Addons which allow you to cross-sell additional products & services to clients
- Downloadable Product Support - eg. Software Downloads
- Support for custom Welcome Emails for each product you create
- Stock Management/Auto suspension of orders once unavailable
Powerful & Flexible Billing
- Automatic invoice generation x days before items are due, reminders and overdue notices all automated
- Ability to create one-off invoices - ideal for web design/consultancy firms
- Automated Recurring Credit Card Billing
- 3D Secure (Verified by Visa & Mastercard SecureCode) for gateways that support it (ProtX & Quantum Gateway)
- PDF Invoicing Support
- Automated credits on overpayments and application to invoices
- Account Prefunding Option for Clients
- Clients can order upgrades/downgrades to their products & services from the client area
- Promotions support both one time & recurring, fixed value or percentage incentives
- Offer Free Domains when bought in conjunction with certain packages/billing cycles
- Tax Support with ability for Multiple Tax Zones & Tax Exemptions
Domain Integration/Management
- Integration with over 10 of the leading domain registrars
- Automated Domain Registrations & Transfers
- Automated Expiry Notices
- Clients can renew anytime from the client area
- Ability to make Nameserver Changes
- Make changes to the WHOIS Contact Information
- Enable/Disable Domain Locking
- Auto Renewal Settings per domain
- Request EPP Code (Selected modules only)
- ID Protection Addons (Selected modules only)
- DNS Management & Email Forwarding Addons (Enom only)
- Allows multiple registrars to be used concurrently
Support Tools
- Announcements for keeping clients up to date with news & events
- Downloads so that you can offer your clients useful applications with their purchases
- A Knowledgebase so that clients can find the help they need themselves reducing ticket workload
- A fully featured Support Ticket System to hanlde all client and non-client communication
- Multiple Departments support which can be open to clients only or public
- Email Piping to allow ticket opening and replies via email
- Mass Mail feature to enable you to give clients latest news, promos and notices
Server Automation
- Over 14 leading control panels supported
- Account Creation & Termination
- Automated Suspension for Overdue and Unsuspension on Payment
- Auto suspension overide option on a per account basis
- Change Account Password from WHMCS (Selected modules only)
- Auto Upgrade/Downgrade Package (Selected modules only)
- Server rotation based on account numbers
Client Profiles & Frontend
- Admin Client Summary page giving an overview of an entire clients account
- Entire product/domain history with statuses including active, cancelled, fraud, terminated, pending-transfer so you and your clients are always kept up to date
- Full Invoice & Payment records
- Complete email history viewable by both admin and client
- Timestamped Notes for detailed record keeping
- Unique Client Portal system giving a central location for all your clients needs
- Multi-language support in both client side display and email templates
- Domain Availability Checker with support for mass lookups
- Server Status summary page showing service status and uptime/load
Statistical Reports & Summaries
- Over 10 statistical reports to keep you up to date on how your business is doing
- Graphs to provide a quick and clear overview of the data
- Easily extendable with a simple modular addon reports system
Customisable & Developer Friendly
- Fully templated client side which can be edited in a regular HTML editor (no complex PHP code)
- Action hooks allowing you to add your own code to run when events occur in WHMCS - eg. after new orders, payments, etc...
- Modular system for server, gateway and domain registrars making it easily extendable to support other panels/providers
- Development Kits available for all supported module types
- Remote API System allowing calls and integration from your own existing applications
Security
- Support for moving writeable directories outside of the publicly accessible folder tree
- Allows admin folder custom renaming to hide it from visitors
- Notifications of failed admin login attempts
- Auto IP banning after 3 failed login attempts
- All passwords encrypted in the database
- Credit card data is encrypted using the AES Encryption protocol
WHMCS includes complete support features including a support ticket system, knowledgebase, downloads area and server status outline. It automatically creates, suspends and terminates accounts while providing complete automated billing processes with accounting features and reports. DesignShrineHost is well known for their unmetered reseller hosting plan at only $49.95/mo and all existing and new clients have the options to include WHMCS in their order.
As our reseller hosting department grew, the necessity to add a comprehensive billing system for our clients became apparent. After testing and finding this service incomparable to others we tested, we have negotiated a low price and are able to offer this amazing service to our clients. The bottom line is that this gives them peace-of-mind, while cutting their management time by more than half.
DesignShrineHost.com recently announced that all reseller plans now come with a free one year turnkey website membership (www.designshrinephpfactory.com) to help their resellers rack up hosting customers quickly by selling the websites on their domains. They, on average, sell for $250 plus a monthly paying hosting customer.
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