Importing Orders

[zulqarnainhabib]

Hi

 

I am new to WHMCS and trying to import my existing clients and orders into WHMCS through APIs described at http://docs.whmcs.com/API:Functions.

 

I have successfully imported my clients but I am a bit confused about orders. I already have many clients who are being recurring billed through a custom billing software. Each customer is billed monthly from the date when he/she signed up. Therefore every customer may have a different billing date.

 

If I import my existing orders into WHMCS I don't see an option to specify next billing date. I can see the Billable Items API provides an option to specify recurring dates. My question is if I just import clients and Billable Items and leave Orders and Invoices? Will this work for doing automatic billing every month or there is some other thing which should be done.

 

Any help will be much appreciated.

 

Zulqarnain