WHMCS V4.3 Beta Testing

[Matt]

WHMCS V4.3 Beta Testing

 

A beta version of the next release of WHMCS has now been released to our beta tester users. We've been hard at work on V4.3 since early April adding some of the most popularly requested new features, various new modules, and tweaking/improving existing features & overall system stability.

 

Just some of the new features in this version include the new alternative Ajax order form (previewed recently on the forums), the ability to generate invoices for different cycles different lengths of time in advance, customisable admin email templates, the ability to specify Suspension Reasons on manual suspends, Client Area Search & Sorting functionality, and much, much more...

 

We already have all the beta testers we need and hopefully with the pre-beta testing we've done in house having gone well, we don't expect the beta period to last any more than a few weeks.

 

Keep checking back here and via twitter for updates: http://www.twitter.com/whmcs

 

Matt

[Matt]

Provisional Changelist

 

Due to popular demand from lots of you eager to hear what the V4.3 update to WHMCS will contain, here is a provisional changelist of what Version 4.3 will include:

 

New Ajax Order Form - fully customisable, open-source, ajax based order process with live order summary

 

Per Billing Cycle Invoice Settings - Now you can specify for different billing cycles to generate at different times, for example your monthly items could generate 14 days in advance while annual items could generate 30 days in advance

 

Product Addons - Weighting ability to customise display order of addons, added the ability to easily transfer an addon from one of the clients products to another, and improved adding process to make pricing retrieval more intuitive

 

Admin Order Review - Optimised display to show clients full name/address to aid manual fraud checking, added the ability to manually re-test an order with MaxMind after editing clients details, and optimised loading time by converting Affiliate Assign to Ajax load on request only

 

Admin Add Order Process - Expanded to support product addons & quantities of a product being ordered

 

Client Area Search & Sorting - the My Products/Services & My Domains lists in the client area have had the ability to sort by any column and users to search for a specific domain they own added

 

Suspension Reasons - now when performing a manual suspend you can specify a reason for that suspension to be displayed in the admin area, client area, and suspension notification email - automated suspensions default to non-payment

 

Expanded Downloads - Added the ability for downloads to be associated to addons so that addons can provide access to additional downloads automatically when purchased like with products

 

Promotions Recurring Limits - Coupons can now be set to recur for a set number of cycles, allowing offers such as "Get your first 3 months at half price" for example

 

Customisable Admin Email Templates - You can now customise the New Order, Support Ticket Response, Automatic Setup Failure, Domain Renewal Failure and Service Unsuspension admin email notifications like existing email templates

 

Client Default Payment Method - the admin profile page now allows an admin user to change the payment method of all a clients products, services & open invoices in one quick action

 

Config Options Monthly Breakdown - updated the order process product configuration step to also apply monthly breakdown pricing to configurable options if enabled

 

Checkout Credit Card Payment - if a credit card based payment gateway is chosen during checkout, in a more streamlined process the client is now asked to enter their card details as part of checkout rather than following checkout being completed

 

Multiple Free Subdomain Choices - ability to specific more than 1 subdomain a client can choose from as an alternative to domain registration at Products Signup

 

Read-only/Locked Client Profile Fields - ability to choose which fields from the main profile name, email, address fields are editable

 

cPanel Reseller Upgrades - Added support for automated reseller disk/bandwidth package upgrades

 

Additional Hook Points - AdminLogin/Logout, ClientClose, AdminHomepage & TicketAddNote, Pre(xxx) event for all module command hooks

 

Upgrade Order Process - added automatic redirect to gateway ability like main cart system

 

Client Summary Generate Invoices - popup prompt added to ask if you want invoices emailing or generating only so you can edit first

 

NameCheap Registrar - Updated to latest API & added support for NameCheap Promo Codes

 

Batch PDF Exporter - added additional filter option of Payment Method and Sorting ability

 

VirtualMin - Added support for reseller account automation and disk & bandwidth usage stats importing

 

Invoice Payment Methods - updated to only show the payment methods enabled for the product group(s) the items on the invoice belong to

 

Wildcard IP Bans - added support for banning entire IP ranges, for example 91.123.*

 

Mass Pay Invoices - excluded from client area due invoices list and due balance totals to avoid affecting displayed balance

 

UK Postcode Auto Formatting - rules now auto applied to ensure UK postcode format which was causing Nominet UK domain registrations to fail

 

cPanel Module - updated to use new V11.25 reseller specific API calls, added option to prevent reseller owning their own account

 

Plesk Reseller Module - added permission settings to be configurable within WHMCS

 

Order Notification - any custom order notes specified by the customer are now included in the notification email

 

New Email Template Merge Fields - invoice_tax2, invoice_tax_rate2, domain_dns_management, domain_email_forwarding, domain_id_protection, domain_do_not_renew, service_suspension_reason

 

Direct Admin Links - added direct links to view a support ticket and new order in admin notification emails

 

Added Additional API Calls - AddContact, DeleteContact, GetInvoices, GetProducts, UpdateClientProduct, UpdateContact & UpdateInvoice

 

Stronger Random Password Generator - the automated passwords generated for products/services auto provisioning has been improved to ensure they always include a mix of both upper/lowercase chars & numbers

 

InterWorx Module - Added support for reseller account creation & management

 

Backdated Invoice Payments - If adding a transaction to an invoice with a date in the past which marks it paid, the invoice date of payment is now set to the date entered also rather than current date

 

Domain Renewal Restrictions - The default per TLD domain renewal restrictions can now be customised for advanced users via the config file

 

SSL Configuration - added support for SSL certificates without the approver email step

 

Enom Module - Various fixes & enhancements

 

Invoice Resend Confirmation - added button to resend payment confirmation email receipt

 

Smarty Error Checking - improved error handling should mean any email template syntax errors will now be recorded in the activity log rather than displaying a blank page

 

Nominet - Added support for IPS Tag Change Requests by Admins & Clients (Optional)

 

Improved Email Piping Charset Handling - improvements to converting of emails being received in different charsets to local charset

 

Updated TinyMCE Rich Text Editor - Added to product config descriptions also