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This is my first post and I am new to everything here. I have been a WWD reseller for a long time, but I want to move into my own billing / branding / hosting company. I need a high level understanding of how I could create and automate everything for core products (Domain names, hosting, email).

 

I have purchased the full version WHMCS and own a couple of dedicated servers both Windows and Linux.

 

WHMCS will handle all account creation, recurring billing, invoices, receipts, support ticketing questions. Correct?

 

Once a customer puchases a package through my custom website and then WHMCS, how do I provision the hosting account and email? Is this a manual process that i would do, or do I use something like Plesk for that provisioning? I would like to be able to support both Windows and Linux hosting accounts, so I need something that will work for both. Can Plesk 10 be integrated into WHMCS?

 

It seems that Plesk has a lot of overlap with some of the things that WHMCS does. Is Plesk more of a competing product? Is there something better to use?

 

For the domain name registration, I would like to use Go daddy's API. Can that be integrated into WHMCS for the basic domain name tasks?

 

Thanks in advance,

--Jeff

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WHMCS will handle all account creation, recurring billing, invoices, receipts, support ticketing questions. Correct?

Yes

 

Once a customer puchases a package through my custom website and then WHMCS, how do I provision the hosting account and email? Is this a manual process that i would do, or do I use something like Plesk for that provisioning?

WHMCS together with Plesk can be used to automate account provisioning.

 

Can Plesk 10 be integrated into WHMCS?

Yes: http://whmcs.com/modules.php

 

It seems that Plesk has a lot of overlap with some of the things that WHMCS does. Is Plesk more of a competing product? Is there something better to use?
They're not really competing products. Plesk is the control panel your customers use to manage their website and hosting account; WHMCS takes the order, handles payments, delinquent accounts and payments.

 

For the domain name registration, I would like to use Go daddy's API. Can that be integrated into WHMCS for the basic domain name tasks?

Not out of the box, you'll need to a module yourself: http://wiki.whmcs.com/Developer_Resources

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