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ENOM Reseller, working with USD in GBP?


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What is the best practice for using ENOM Reseller which is in USD, but selling as GBP?

 

I read somewhere that currency can be updated in ENOM account but this does not appear to be the case... If I am forced to work with USD and convert it to GBP upon inserting into the WHMCS database, what is the best method?

 

I run a script that grabs my prices from ENOM and inserts automatically so some sort of API that gives me the exchange rate each day would have been great.

 

xe.com would have been a great example but it costs at least $799 a year which is just not feasible.

 

Am i looking in the wrong place? What is the best solution?

 

Thanks.

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i'm not an eNom user, so I can't help with the importing - though I assume you're using the eNom Pro addon for importing the TLDs?

 

their is a currency exchange rate update option within WHMCS...

 

http://docs.whmcs.com/Currencies

 

so worst case scenario, you could import them in USD and then let the cron convert the prices to GBP - you'd end up with pricing in both USD and GBP for the TLDs... if you didn't want to sell in USD, you could either tweak the templates to remove the option to change currency or perhaps a hook to set the currency to GBP.

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thinking about it, there would be another way - which, in some ways, is slightly more obvious than the method I previously suggested.

 

you could just run an SQL update query on the tblpricing database table, specifying only domainreg/tran/ren - you basically only need to multiply the existing amounts by the exchange rate... might get slightly awkward if not all your domains were from eNom and you only had to modify some, but it would certainly be doable.

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> What is the best practice for using ENOM Reseller which is in USD, but selling as GBP?

 

What price you display and charge has no direct correlation to the prices you have to pay enom

 

> What is the best solution?

 

What "problem" are you trying to solve exactly ?

 

Good question:D I think I have been misunderstanding how it works.

 

I take it the only important part of ENOM is the 'Your Cost' column under domain pricing on the ENOM site.

 

Whatever price I set in WHMCS is the price the customer will pay, and I'll be charged what is under 'Your Cost' in Enom.

 

Example: I could set .com at £12 GBP, ENOM will charge $9.45 which converts to £6.52, profit = £5.48

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Whatever price I set in WHMCS is the price the customer will pay, and I'll be charged what is under 'Your Cost' in Enom.

 

Example: I could set .com at £12 GBP, ENOM will charge $9.45 which converts to £6.52, profit = £5.48

 

This is correct, I removed GBP currency from my website in the past but it should work in this way. You can charge your customer a price in any currency, Enom will take your cost price in USD from your credit. This should work without problems as long as you keep check on exchange rates and price increases.

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As it imports the domain tlds and the prices, would the prices not go into whmcs somewhere?

 

yes - the tblpricing database table... which I why I suggested one solution would be to just multiply the existing applicable values by the exchange rate.

 

so import TLDs and USD prices, then run the SQL query to convert the imported USD prices to GBP.

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