eNom Pricing?

[teradrop]

Hi everyone

 

I'm not sure if this is the best place to ask this question so forgive me if it is.

 

I just recently signed up to the free eNom offer that WHMCS gives and had a look at the domain pricing section in eNom.

 

Can someone tell me what price I should be looking at - I can see a price that can't be edited called "My Cost" and 3 other's (Register, Transfer, Renew) that I can edit.

 

I'm going by a guess here that the "My Cost" price is the one that eNom sells that domain for, so that amount is the value eNom takes from us if we sell that specific domain name. Am I right?

 

Thanks

Sandeep

[WHMCS John]

Hi,

Yes the "Your Cost" value is what you will be charged.

[pvanliew]

eNom's pricing is actually pretty bad. Resell.biz has the best pricing, however, they do put some stuff in WHOIS, so it's a tradeoff. GoGetSSL has far better SSL pricing as well. eNom's topup policies are just the worst also.

[And then there was one les]

I dont feel that enom topup policy is bad to be honest, if you are selling enough of their products then your going to be wanting a decent amount of credit in there but if you can start of by guestimating a weekly budget to topup then you can adjust as needed.

 

As your business grows you can look to increasing the amounts and decreasing the frequency to say monthly.

 

As to the point of the question at hand, Your costs are what whmcs charge you for the product/service. you dont have to use the pricing at enom if you are selling through their api, as in, from your own website and not through an enom shop front.

 

If you want to have sub-resellers then you will need to sort out that pricing and enom have a formula that you can use to calculate what you want to charge your resellers, it takes some getting used to but you will soon enough figure it out.

[basic]

Lots of pros and cons with eNom. For example, pricing for *some* European ccTLDs is really good, but then you have to set those on "auto-renew," otherwise loose them later (WHMCS will not be able to manage those renewals depending on incomig payments from your customers). There are better alternatives.

 

John

[And then there was one les]

How do you mean not being able to manage them? i have all domains with the auto renew, as soon as clients pay the renewal is sent and its done, ive had no problems?

 

If a client doesn't pay for a renewal then it should be taken as they don't want to renew.

[basic]

CDJ Hosting, I was referring to *specific* European ccTLDs -- for example .de (Germany) or .es (Spain) and some others are examples. At eNom you cannot do what you just described (and what works with .com, .net, etc.). If you do NOT set those to "auto-renew" then eNom will NOT renew them if your customer pays in time, they would still expire. The other way around, if you do set them to auto-renew, and your customer does cancel or simply not pay you, then you still pay eNom and they still get renewed.

 

Hope this does clarify it.

 

John

[And then there was one les]

Oh ok i don't offer all of the domains through enom, to try and keep my prices competitive i pick the cheapest registrar on a per domain basis so i wasn't aware of that side of things with certain domains.