Anyone offering more than 1 free domain name with hosting?

[trader]

Hi,

 

Like most Web hosting comapnies I would like to offer a free domain name with my hosting packages.

 

My most expensive package offers 3 free domain names. WHMCS handles the billing for a hosting package with 1 free domain name. But I'm wondering what is the best way to handle a sale with 3 free domain names. How do I handle the other 2 free domain names?

 

Any thoughts guys will be appreciated.

 

Matt.

[othellotech]

>How do I handle the other 2 free domain names?

 

email them 2 vouchers for 100% off a domain purchase after accepting the order - also has the benefit of making them come back to your site ...

[trader]

>How do I handle the other 2 free domain names?

 

email them 2 vouchers for 100% off a domain purchase after accepting the order - also has the benefit of making them come back to your site ...

 

 

Thanks for that othellotech, sounds like a good idea. How do you handle the purchase of the new domain names? Do you set them up as a new product in WHMCS and then allow the customer to apply the discount voucher? I have domain name reseller account with NetEarthOne

 

Just wondering about the best way to do this.

 

Matt.

Edited September 29, 2010 by trader

[othellotech]

Go into your promotions/vouchers and create a new one

in the "term" scroll down and pick domain 1 year

in the "products" scroll down and pick the tlds you want the offer on

pick "100%" and decide if recurring

tick "once per client", "existing client only" and "once globally"

set an expiry date

save it as something *not guesable* like "TV-PKG-ExtraDom-20100930-12345678"

 

do a quick query on tblpromotions, look at all fields for that voucher ...

 

You can then automate the creation using the hooks to create 2 more vouchers in the table when package "X" is purchased - or if you want manual control create a simple admin module to input the clientid/packaged/orderid (can be done with any of those) which creates the 2 new vouchers and emails them to the client

 

Add a cronjob (or another hook) to set the expiry date to today-1 when used to prevent abuse

 

You could even "name" the new vouchers "FreeDomain-1-xxxxx" and "FreeDomain-2-xxxxx" where xxxx is the hosting product id and then add a "my vouchers" page in the client area which lists their vouchers

 

Must be in good mood, giving all our secrets away ;D

[trader]

Go into your promotions/vouchers and create a new one

in the "term" scroll down and pick domain 1 year

in the "products" scroll down and pick the tlds you want the offer on

pick "100%" and decide if recurring

tick "once per client", "existing client only" and "once globally"

set an expiry date

save it as something *not guesable* like "TV-PKG-ExtraDom-20100930-12345678"

 

do a quick query on tblpromotions, look at all fields for that voucher ...

 

You can then automate the creation using the hooks to create 2 more vouchers in the table when package "X" is purchased - or if you want manual control create a simple admin module to input the clientid/packaged/orderid (can be done with any of those) which creates the 2 new vouchers and emails them to the client

 

Add a cronjob (or another hook) to set the expiry date to today-1 when used to prevent abuse

 

You could even "name" the new vouchers "FreeDomain-1-xxxxx" and "FreeDomain-2-xxxxx" where xxxx is the hosting product id and then add a "my vouchers" page in the client area which lists their vouchers

 

Must be in good mood, giving all our secrets away ;D

 

Thanks for going the extra mile on this othellotech, very much appreciated.