Ordering quantities.

[keithop]

Seems to be two main ways to order a quantity of a product...

 

1. Allow multiple quantities in the product setup

2. configurable addons

 

Now I kinda prefer 1 because it feels nicer to say "57*mailboxes" than 1 mailbox + 56 extras.

 

Thing is, when I place a sample order for 57 mailboxes, inside the client screen, I see 57 entries of 1 product which makes that screen pretty huge given we have clients with several hundred mailboxes. Everything else looks logical, the invoice says 57*mailbox. In the client area it all looks like one order for 57... all great until I look at services and there again, it's 57 line items of 1 box each.

 

Now, *perhaps* that would be sensible if there was a way to configure each mailbox with its provisioning detail (name, email address, password) but that doesn't seem possible.

 

Am I missing a setup option or something?

[WHMCS Ryan]

Option 1 functions exactly as you describe, you are ordering multiple quantities of a single product. So it would give you 57 separate services. There are several feature requests for this option to work as you would ideally want and hopefully it will be added to a release in the future.

 

Option 2 is as you describe as well but as you stated buying 1 mailbox + 56 extras may not be exactly what you are looking for.

 

One option is to have multiple products. So one product for the ability to buy 1 mailbox, another product is 5 mailboxes, 10 mailboxes, etc..

 

--Thanks

[Alex - Arvixe]

One option is to have multiple products. So one product for the ability to buy 1 mailbox, another product is 5 mailboxes, 10 mailboxes, etc..

 

There is that but then with that, some clients will either have to pay more for what they need. You can achieve this using the configurable options but with some template modifications so you don't have the 1 mailbox + 56 extras.

 

First create a base package, set the name, description etc under the Pricing tab make sure to select "Recurring" and insert $0.00 in all of the billing cycles. With this, we have a base package priced $0.00 recurring.

 

Now, create a configurable option for the quantity of the mailboxes like normal and assign it to the package you have just created.

 

Finally, with template modifications take out any areas in the order form and/or change any phrases to make the order process less confusing. For example, you would want to take out the $0.00 base package pricing by completely removing it or changing that to say "$x.xx per account, configured below" and so on.