Additional Mailbox Billing Option

[DeWebDude]

Hello,

 

Sometimes you just can't find something on a search, so here is my question.

 

I sell a hosting package, lets say it comes with 10 mailboxes, I want to have an addon option to allow the user to add the 11th mailbox, of course to also bill it residual. Not sure how to go about doing that. I did create an addon item for it, made 3 of the same item because of Monthly, quarterly or annual but not to happy with how I did that, but then I don't know how to associate that with a mailbox so that A it allows the user to add another mailbox and B if maybe it can figure out billing based on the hosting account cycle.

 

Any help or reference is appreciated!

[brian!]

one option might be to use a configurable option for the number of mailboxes, and give it a minimum/maximum range, e.g 1->100, or 10->20 etc

 

http://docs.whmcs.com/Addons_and_Configurable_Options

 

let's say its 10->20, and you price each mailbox at $1, you may need to reduce your base price by $10 to keep it at the same final price (as the cost of those 10 mailboxes will be added to the price)... also, if/when a client decides to upgrade from 10 to 11 mailboxes, they can just upgrade the configurable options via the client area and be invoiced accordingly...

 

http://docs.whmcs.com/Automated_Upgrades_and_Downgrades#Configurable_Options_Upgrades

 

and if you wanted the option of provisioning the change automatically, you could take a look at the WHMCS Configurable Package Addon.

[DeWebDude]

Thanks Brian, will read your information!

[DeWebDude]

So the issue I see with this is that we may have several prices for different packages and if a client see's they are getting billed $10 for email boxes they don't use they will ask for a discount.

Any other options?

I would think this is a common thing.

 

Thanks!

[brian!]

have you tried looking in Marketplace - they're may be a specific solution in there depending on which solution you are using for mailboxes.