Support for resource-based billing?

[VladM]

Can WHMC be used to implement a service model that charges for resources on a pay as you go basis?

 

We have a shared hosting system that meters the actual amounts of bandwidth, CPU, memory and storage used by each account. We would like to offer a service in which the customers subscribe to a basic, very inexpensive, recurring monthly plan, and are then billed for the actual usage of resources at the end of each month (e.g., $50 per month + $0.15 for every GB of transfer + $0.15 for every GB of storage per month)

 

Two questions:

 

- Does WHMC support this today?

- If not, what would it take to implement such support?

 

We are a serious customer, and are both willing and able to pay for significant customization work if it saves us time to market.

 

Please PM or email me if more discussion is needed.

 

Thanks

[trine]

>> Does WHMC support this today?

>> If not, what would it take to implement such support?

 

Well, no.

 

But there is some good news. Apparently the new API will allow you to pass a few things to it to create new invoices and a few other things, so it could be scripted outside WHMCS, set up as a cron, and then use the API to pass the billing info to WHMCS.

 

yeeeehaw!

[Matt]

WHMCS does support the importing of disk space and bandwidth usage from a server module. It won't however charge based on these values at the moment. If you want to discuss this as a custom job, please open a ticket.

 

Matt