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Kia ora everyone!

It's been quite some time since we did a community wrapup, however, we're bringing them back!  So without further ado, welcome to the January 2022 WHMCS.Community Wrapup! Our look back at the popular content on WHMCS.Community during January 2022

January 2022 Community Statistics:

We welcomed 616 new members, our community crafted 224 new topics and received 676 new replies across the course of the month.

The January 2022 leaderboard:

The leaderboard is an important part of our community, it helps highlight users that make notable contributions to the community along with notable content.  

Kian sits in first place at 14 points.  Following in second place is Evolved Hosting with 12 points and PapaKai rounds out third place on 4 points.

On our Blog: How-To: Using Validation.com to automate fraud order management


Fraudulent orders can be a big cost for online businesses - both in time as well as money. The Validation.com integration in WHMCS aims to help reduce that burden.

With Validation.com, you can perform automated customer identity verification when customers fail a fraud check, helping you and your team to make more informed decisions about whether to accept high risk orders.

Read more on our blog here.

 

ICYMI: WHMCS 8.4 is Now Available


We are pleased to announce the release of WHMCS 8.4 to General Availability.

This marks the end of pre-production testing, and WHMCS 8.4 is now the recommended version for all new installations and updates.

WHMCS 8.4 features a new faster checkout experience for WordPress Hosting, access to SSL Certificate Site Seal Code within the WHMCS Client Area, the ability to create and manage Email Aliases with OpenXchange, improvements to the automatic updater and more.

For more information about all of the new features in WHMCS 8.4, visit the What's New in WHMCS 8.4 Microsite.

Popular content in January 2022:

That's all folks!

That's our January 2022 wrapup! Thanks for reading, as always we're here to help, please do let us know if you have any questions, comments or feedback either on the by replying to this thread or submitting a thread in the WHMCS.Community Assistance Board. We'll be back for the February Wrapup

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