Payment in advance recipe

[powerpbx]

Hi,

 

I'm new to WHMCS. I will be billing in advance for my hosting. There are a plethora of settings for billing expiry dates, cancellation dates, suspend dates. It's quite confusing for me.

 

Basically I want to bill for 2 months on the first payment (first + last month). After that it is monthly. I also have semi-annually and annually which are payed normally but also due 30days in advance.

 

Because WHMCS does not have a template for this I have come to the conclusion I need to do this with the cancellation/expiry dates. Is that correct?

 

So the idea is, the way WHMCS works, if they sign up for Monthly they pay a setup fee + 1month which I will use as 2months on first payment. For all accounts, payment is due 30 days in advance on all of the payment options so I believe in WHMCS I have to make billing due 30days in advance with account suspension after 30 days. But that won't work for monthly because WHMCS does not see the "setup fee" as a month of payment so they would get billed again immediately upon payment??

 

Another way is they pay the monthly with no setup fee and would immediately get sent another bill for the next month because my due date is set 30days in advance on WHMCS. But that is not a very good solution either.

 

Anyone have any ideas how I might be able to set this up. I thought my billing scheme was more common and therefore it would be well supported in WHMCS but perhaps not