Whmcs Course

[Stetson Saenz]

WHMCS is a complete, 360-degree solution for anyone looking to start a web hosting company or a domain registrar business. Why bother doing anything manually when you can install a single application that will automate your entire process?

Focus on what's essential in your company and leave the routine tasks to WHMCS. This application makes your life easier in every aspect of a Web Hosting Company, from entirely automated hosting account creation and deployment to invoicing and payment capture.

Since WHMCS is a complete web hosting solution, it naturally includes all the necessary tools to support your customers. Its ticketing system provides a fully featured communication platform that allows clients to submit tickets via a web browser or email. It also gives support agents quick and easy access to customers' profiles, service management, and billing information.

WHMCS is extremely easy to get into due to its intuitive dashboard. You can simply pick it up and learn all essential functionalities within a few days without investing months or even years into figuring out stuff.

WHMCS has been developed with flexibility in mind, making it compatible with all leading Web Hosting Control panels, such as cPanel, Plesk, and DirectAdmin. With thousands of available integrations, you can connect WHMCS to practically any framework or third-party service you want to incorporate into your business.

WHMCS's features are virtually limitless for managing your hosting company. In this tutorial series, we will give you detailed information about the most widely used functionalities and, of course, include some niche ones that will help you optimize your tasks, improve your procedures and gain extra revenue.

I'm using WHMCS for a very long time (since 2012) - during this time I learned a lot about WHMCS.
I'm very good at QA - and I've found and reported lots of bugs over the years.
I never learned QA - but I'm very methodical and analytical person.

I had some experience over the years with paying for custom developments of modules by several vendors, such as modulesgarden and whmcsservices, But although I appreciate the efforts and enjoy using the modules they created for me, in most cases the service level was not to my expectation and the costs was way higher than I can pay.
I know and appreciate the fact that such custom developments cost money and that it's really hard work - so I'm not complaining.

Also since the feature requests are very very slow way to push thing though (if it's a way at all) - I thinks it's time for me to try and start doing stuff on my own - I want to learn how to create modules that will connect WHMCS to other platforms (such as moodle, my autoresponder system etc) , I want to be able to change the look of my WHMCS, I want to change some aspects of WHMCS and to create modules that will help change WHMCS so it will be more suited to my business.

I guess I need to learn lots of things in order to do so - PHP, HTML, CSS, MySql, javascript etc.

Thank you for your advice and suggestions.

I will try to use codecademy to learn HTML then CSS then Javascript and in the end PHP and MYSQL.
I guess that along the way I'll learn about Smarty, Bootstrap and Laravel (Laravel sound very interesting).

The difference though is the owned / lifetime license still works but you just can't get updates. In this case, you would have to show they took something away that was in the owned license or that was expected (by industry standards, reasonable person tests) to be in the license.

There's not being done anything illegal. You're still able to use your owned license. If you aren't going to convert your license, you're going to be stuck with the owned license - just like you would if WHMCS ceased existing.

That is very misleading because you don't get the ioncube to unlock the software. Your owned license is now worth $0. Wait until a new PHP version comes out, and it's not support by your operating system anymore. Wait until a security hole is discovered, and you cannot patch or close it because...YOU HAVE no access to the code.

They sold a lifetime owned software which is now obsolete. It's very misleading to say you can continue to use it when the software code is obfuscated, and they will refuse access. They sold one thing and they decided to change their initial purchase agreement.

Would people here had purchased the software if they knew this in advance? The question is no for tons of people. They paid thinking it was a long term investment. They did not receive that value because let's remember we still paid the yearly updates, but what happen to the initial price which was much higher than paying per month? Its now gone.

As far as I know, they don't state "Lifetime" anywhere, but that's besides the point. You still have every right to use the version of WHMCS that your license covers, you just can't upgrade it. I don't see why it's misleading - but it sucks.

You sell one thing and then change the initial purchase agreement afterwards and is not misleading? They also said before they would HONOR existing owned licenses. They now are also breaking that promise.

So lets go off your screenshot, btw can you date that? If you bought the one time payment unbranded license at $324 and lets say that was 5 years ago and yearly renewals was $60, that is a total of $624 to date. Now lets say the monthly was $19 for majority of those years, you would have paid $1140 or more over those 5 years just for the monthly license. So the one time is actually quite cheaper.

Right but if you see in the above, owned license only includes the first year and after that you need to renew the update subscription. They just did away with that part and not the whole license. Sure you can no longer update, but I have read that security patches would still be available. I have not yet seen anywhere that updates were for life also.

The reason a company sells one time payments for a higher price and people are willing to pay, is because you see it as an investment, not an expense or monthly subscription. This is also why you can book it in accounting, as digital assets vs expenses.

What has the date of the screenshot anything to do with this? If you purchased one-time before, you expect that purchase promise to be honored as long they are in business. Not new sales but previous sales? Every company honors them, unless they expect to never have new customers again which would be concerning for any company. And before you claim this is not sustainable plenty of companies do this as a reward to initial customers that made them who they are, at least with software that does not cost them anything as opposed to leased services. Affinity is one example. I truly have paid one time for both of their software and have received free updates for years now. Paul from Blesta said the same thing in a community recently, that they see it as a way to reward those that initially believe in his product and company. Its not as you will have one time sales forever, new purchases are a different story, you just honor those that actually made you as a brand and company and to finalize, it's not as they are not making any money from them anymore. I always have renewed support and updates and I also purchased all their extra add-ons and modules that are officially developed by WHMCS.

Don't even get me into that link that goes to their terms of service. You see their sales page, read one thing, and then they change it. This is a very gray area. To back pedal on your initial selling promise. I purchased ONE TIME because they promised me I could then later buy support and updates per year. Now they are telling me, sorry, your one time purchase is worthless, and we are not going to allow you to buy updates from us anymore in the future. Assuming it was cheaper for me to pay by month, then it was a deception trick. I paid a higher price expecting to receive something of value and instead I paid more for something that will be worthless soon.

How can you claim this is not deception? I paid for Unlimited Customers and Unlimited Staff and Unlimited products. Now WHMCS is forcing me to a limited customer model. This is not what I purchased initially. And they refuse to sell me further updates which is a way to force you out.

Just wait until WHMCS start to charge you extra for every staff account and wait until they charge extra per active product you have. All my predictions about WHMCS over the years have become true. I said this before, their customer license model is only the start. If you expect to run WHMCS in your existing plan then I have bad news for you.

Self-hosted licenses are completely going away. Even if they say the opposite today, they said the same thing about owned licenses in public. Trust me, self hosted WHMCS is dead. They will eventually start to push you out as they move to their SaaS whmcs hosted only. At that point, your database and customers are theirs, they can will probably move to a % model that charges you based on the amount of sales you make every month. Good luck if you don't believe me but that is what WHMCS is going for. They want to be sort of Apple that charges 30% cut to every developer and they force everyone to only be able to sell using Apple payments. WHMCS is going that way. I would not be surprised if in the future they completely ban modules like Stripe or Specific domain modules and force you to use their Reselling account and their merchant payment system. They want a cut of your business and they are not stopping here.

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