WHMCS CEO Matt Posted August 18, 2010 WHMCS CEO Share Posted August 18, 2010 WHMCS V4.3.1 We are pleased to announce the release of WHMCS V4.3.1 - the latest stable release of WHMCS. In this release, there are lots of new features but also many enhancements & improvements to the existing system to improve overall stability, compatability and functionality. First, there's a new order option - the Ajax order form - fully open source and therefore completely customisable - this is a streamlined order process utilising the latest Ajax technology to create a single page, one-step order process. There's also a new twitter integration, allowing you to easily display your latest tweets and a link to your company twitter page from the WHMCS client area automatically. The new features don't stop there though, there's new options in promotions to setup time limited recurring promos, an expanded product downloads feature to allow addons to also grant download access, customisable admin email templates, ability to invoice in advance different periods for different billing cycles, weighting product addons, and much more.. There's a number of usability enhancements too, including but not limited to, a more flexible admin order process supporting multiple quantites of an item and manual price overides, an enhanced pending order display showing clients full name/address & ability to re-run the MaxMind fraud checks, the ability to change all of a clients products/services payment method in one single action and the ability to record suspension reasons when manually suspending a product. And the usability enhancements aren't just for admin users, there's also been enhancements to the client side too with search and sorting functionality added to aid clients managing lots of products & domains. So hopefully as you can see from the above, there has been a lot of work put into this release and we're very pleased with it here at WHMCS - and hope you will be too! For a more detailed look at some of the new features & functionality in V4.3, please check out http://www.whmcs.com/whatsnewinv43.php For existing users, you can download your copy today from the client area @ http://www.whmcs.com/members/clientarea.php Or alternatively, our professional upgrade service is available as usual for $19.95 so to have us handle the upgrade for you. You can order that @ http://www.whmcs.com/upgradeservice.php The online demo will be upgraded to V4.3 as soon as we get a chance to allow you to preview and try out some of the new features, and I'll post a full changelog overview below shortly. Matt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WHMCS CEO Matt Posted August 18, 2010 Author WHMCS CEO Share Posted August 18, 2010 New Features & Enhancements 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 Twitter Integration - a client side integration with twitter to display the latest tweets from your company twitter account along with a follow icon pointing to your twitter page 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 Live Ticket Status Updates - WHMCS will now monitor in the background and notify you if any other admins have started replying to a ticket if you start replying, and also on submission if the status has changed since you opened it to indicate another admin has already dealt with it Expanded Downloads Features - 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 Affiliate Withdrawal Enhancements - can now automatically create a transaction out or credit entry for the client direct from the admin affiliate withdrawal screen cPanel Reseller Upgrades - Added support for automated reseller disk/bandwidth package upgrades Release Domain Support - added support for registrar modules to contain a release function to automate transfer out of domains so Nominet module supports IPSTAG changes from within WHMCS - can be admin only or clients can also be given access to perform it Additional Hook Points - AdminLogin/Logout, ClientClose, AdminHomepage, AdminServiceEdit, TicketOpenAdmin & 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 Improved Multi-Line & Multi-Page PDF Handling - updates to templates to better handle multiple line item descriptions and splitting accross multiple pages Updated TinyMCE Rich Text Editor - latest version installed Mobile Edition - Added search facility for clients, products, invocies & tickets. Also added invoice browsing, viewing and editing as well as invoice creation New Gateway Modules Authorize.net CIM (Remote Card Storage) BluePay (Remote Card Storage) IP.Pay Mollie iDeal MWarrior Payment Express New Provisioning Modules VPS.Net GlobalSign SSL FluidVM XPanel New Registrar Modules OpenSRS Domain Sync Script ResellOne Domain Sync Script Bizcn IPMirror InternetBS NetRegistry Bug Fixes Client Area Product Details Page showing module specific auto-login links for suspended products Client group discount was being applied to mass pay invoices 3D Secure Process wasn't always breaking out of frames for some gateway modules Some advanced search field options were leading to a blank page TLDs where only 10 years pricing was set were not showing after triennial addition Billable Items uninvoiced work count in client profile list was displaying double Affiliates greater/less than filter options were not filtering correctly Report graphs were failing to generate on some PHP5 setups Triennial product cycle pricing was not being automatically updated in exchange rate sync Promo code required addons check was not considering addons to a new product in the order Homepage announcements summary was not using localised language version if available Email template merge field client_cc_expiry was not being populated Upgrade of products was not creating new configurable option placeholders for those belonging to new product General Settings page was hanging while checking support modules on PHP 5.3 Fixed Windows IIS PHP_SELF loop redirect issues Email Address not accepting + seperator Quote convert to invoice button was resulting in a blank page Knowledgebase looping endlessly if no categories are found to own an article Improved handling of situations where the billing contact assigned to a client is deleted - revert back to primary profile Escalation rules were not including custom ticket statuses in selectable options Modified admin client dropdowns to sort by company name if company name first is selected display type When deleting a department, tickets were becoming orphaned left belonging to no department Admin Side Open Ticket inserting predefined replies was clearing existing input Configurable options were creating a recurring label in order confirmation email even with one time cycle selected Invoice line item descriptions including hidden configurable options Billable Items invoiced with next invoice option were not having link established Attempting to merge a ticket to itself loses ticket entirely Client area module change password function needed entity encoding for values passed to APIs Quotes were not working correctly with compound level 2 taxation New order initial invoice was not always showing discount correctly if product included a setup fee Admin password reset process was not working with SMTP without auth configurations File attachments with more than one dot in the filename were often failing allowed extension check Ticket auto linking of urls was stopping at # symbols EPP Codes containing an equals sign were not being handled correctly Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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