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Hello!

 

I am getting tired of WHMCS poor support. every 6 month or so when i need a little help and submit a ticket they ignore it totally.

 

Well if they going to treat their customer like **** am not going be a customer anymore.

WHMCS is not is not essential, Whmcs has serious shortcomings..

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Hello!

 

I am getting tired of WHMCS poor support. every 6 month or so when i need a little help and submit a ticket they ignore it totally.

 

Well if they going to treat their customer like **** am not going be a customer anymore.

WHMCS is not is not essential, Whmcs has serious shortcomings..

 

when a new release comes out support is always slower which is mentioned many times in this forum. Also at the moment Matt says their are 500+ tickets in the queue. Also if you open mulitple tickets are keep adding to a ticket for up[dates it gets pushed further down the queue.

 

depending on your issue you could always post on the forum as others may have had the same issue and managed to fix it, so therefore could help you.

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Hi,

I think I've found your ticket, and I can see you received an initial response within 24 hours and a second reply just now after 7 hours. Your initial response was delayed unfortunately by bumping your ticket as easyhost explained above. Do bear in mind we are a software company and not a web host so please adjust your expectations accordingly, and also we are currently busier than normal following the release of v5.1, so thanks for your patience.

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I have to say that having tickets ignored has been a frequent ocurrence for me ever since v5 came out. However, easy tickets are handled reasonably well. It's just the hard (important!) stuff that gets ignored. It's a shame, really.

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I have to say that having tickets ignored has been a frequent ocurrence for me ever since v5 came out. However, easy tickets are handled reasonably well. It's just the hard (important!) stuff that gets ignored. It's a shame, really.

 

tickets are not been ignored. tickets are placed in a queue and are answered as they are comed too, but if members did not create multiple tickets or keeps demanding updates ( which acually pushes their ticket further down the queue) then tickets would be answered quicker.

 

patience is a virtue

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WHMCS is not is not essential, Whmcs has serious shortcomings..

 

I don't know about every one else here but to me WHMCS is essential. It does and handles more gateways, systems than any other automated billing system on the market, it's the esyest to work with and once you understand the nature of the beast it is fairly easy to customize and change about to your needs. What people need to understand that according to when the system was attacted it was released in one news article that WHMCS has around 500,000 clients. Now thats a lot of tickets if only 1% have issues. I am more than sure the guys and gals at WHMCS are working there collective backsides off to answer tickets and fix issues. For those who think they should acknowledge your ticket.... Come on in reality if theres 500 tickets in the que and poor old John has to open each ticket and say " Hello I accept you have a ticket open" then thats his weeks productivity down the drain (Sorry John first name come to mind) Also you all need to take into account the timezone difference you open a ticket they reply your in bed so what do they do wait till your awake had your coffee and ready to answer them

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I don't know about every one else here but to me WHMCS is essential. It does and handles more gateways, systems than any other automated billing system on the market, it's the esyest to work with and once you understand the nature of the beast it is fairly easy to customize and change about to your needs. What people need to understand that according to when the system was attacted it was released in one news article that WHMCS has around 500,000 clients. Now thats a lot of tickets if only 1% have issues. I am more than sure the guys and gals at WHMCS are working there collective backsides off to answer tickets and fix issues. For those who think they should acknowledge your ticket.... Come on in reality if theres 500 tickets in the que and poor old John has to open each ticket and say " Hello I accept you have a ticket open" then thats his weeks productivity down the drain (Sorry John first name come to mind) Also you all need to take into account the timezone difference you open a ticket they reply your in bed so what do they do wait till your awake had your coffee and ready to answer them

 

I think what sampras99 was getting at is that in the whole is that WHMCS is not essential as their are other software choices available, yes not as good, but will get the job done. But I have spend many £ and time on WHMCS mods and addons etc, so i will just wait until 5.1.2 is sorted out before i even consiider upgrading.

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I am also having a pretty poor support service from WHMCS. I totally understand that they may have a backlog of queries but it simply does not help that I havent had a response for weeks on my query. The problem is a show stopper and no matter how much I express the critical nature of the query it goes totally unheard. I even stopped adding new tickets in the hope that my old tickets dont get bumped down the queue. What the heck do I do?

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This isn't resolved, been with the software years and their support is miserable, on high priority 36 hours still no reply.

Yes, the software is good but I am beginning to side with sampras99 and they cannot deal with their customers in this way, yep maybe 500,000 customers - in that case they should engage more knowledgable staff!

I,m on the monthly subscription - no branding and could have purchased the software 5 times over by now, so without support what is the point!

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I think the first come first served line that companies feed us is Bullshit.. I have a ticket thats been open for over a week and its not resolved. They are just cherry picking the easy tickets.

 

WRONG. i have had complex tickets answered and replied within 24 hours and resolved within a week

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Easyhosting - Just because YOU may have had that happen doesnt mean others havnt. You seem to but in everywhere on here in defence of WHMCS.

 

The simple fact is that many of us have open unresolved tickets that are weeks old. If you have tickets open 24 hours or less and are getting resolved then im RIGHT. Tickets are not being answered in a first come, first served fashion. They are being cherry picked.

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My case:

26/08/2012 I sent a support ticket asking a a general module dev question.

28/08/2012 They asked me to renew my owner support license since my support was over AND DISABLED MY DEV LICENSE.

28/08/2012 13:5 Ten minutes after last reply, i asked them to disable VAT to pay the support invoice because my area have no VAT charges and to REENABLE MY DEV LICENSE.

29/08/2012 They still want to charge me VAT since im in Europe.

29/08/2012 15:26 Ten minutes after last reply i sent them a web link were its stated that my area have no VAT TAX. An official link of course.

 

Today i woke up and tried to finish a project for a client but i was unable because MY DEV LICENSE WAS STILL SUSPENDED, and of course no reply in the ticket. Now i have to postpone the project because i can't grant my client access to my production environment.

 

Can anyone give me a good reason to renew support licenses?.

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28/08/2012 13:5 Ten minutes after last reply, i asked them to disable VAT to pay the support invoice because my area have no VAT charges and to REENABLE MY DEV LICENSE.

29/08/2012 They still want to charge me VAT since im in Europe.

 

 

If you are in Europe and a business then WHMCS legally have to change VAT as they are VAT registered, this is the law. The only way and EU business outside of the Uk does not pay the VAT is if you provide a valid VAT registration Number

 

http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/vat/managing/charging/charging.htm

 

http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/vat/managing/international/

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