How does WHMCS manage WHM reseller accounts? Can it count total disk storage and data transfer?

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Hi All,

 

I might be asking the wrong question, but here goes...

 

We're a website design and development company first and foremost, offering "boutique" (I hate the word!) hosting to our clients.

 

Sometimes a hosting account for a live site might have one, maybe two a hosting accounts associated with it - the test/dev version, and the UAT (user acceptance testing) version.

 

I have two business objectives:

 

1. I want to be able to invoice the client for *all* the hosting accounts associated with their main live site. I don't want to give away the (mainly) additional storage for the dev+UAT sites for free.

2. I want to give different permissions to different developers who may be working on the same site. For example, I want to limit some developers to be only able to work on the dev+UAT sites, but not give them the permission to push the code to the live site.

 

One option is to setup the dev+UAT sites as sub accounts of the main live site. That would satisfy business objective #1 because we then can easily see the aggregated usage of bandwidth and storage for all sites on that account, primary plus sub accounts.

 

But the sub account option then makes it hard (impossible) to deliver on business objective #2.

 

So what if we scrap the sub account option, and setup the dev+UAT sites as separate, independent hosting accounts? This satisfies business objective #2, but now the bandwidth (data transfer) + disk storage aren't aggregated.

 

So my idea/hope is that the solution lies in putting all the sites: live, dev, and UAT, into a WHM reseller account. What I'm then hoping is that WHMCS is smart enough to aggregate the disk storage + bandwidth of all/any sites in the reseller account so that I know how much to charge the client for all 3 combined, i.e. as if they were a single account.

 

 

1. Does the above make sense?

2. Might the combination of using reseller accounts + WHMCS give me the outcome that I'm after?

3. Any better suggestions anyone?

 

Thanks very much in anticipation,

 

Ross