snake Posted June 20, 2020 Share Posted June 20, 2020 I want to offer the Weebly website builder, but just discovered that I have to provide the hosting for this myself, which I did not realise, I thought it provisioned it on the weebly servers. So now I have users unable to publish as it wants FTP details. I assume there is no way to use the weebly servers? Having read the docs, it says that auto configuration of the publishing details only works with addons added to hosting plans and not stand alone products. So it seems the only way to get that to work is to use BUNDLES and create a hosting plan with the addon already added. But this leaves other issues. 1. How can I disable the stand alone weebly plans so that customers cannot use them. The market place settings do not give me the option to have only addons and not plans. 2. In the bundle, how can I stop customer from de-selecting the weebly addon and choosing none. I don't want them to be able to buy the hosting plan without the weebly addon as it is part of the bundle price. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brian! Posted June 20, 2020 Share Posted June 20, 2020 (edited) 3 hours ago, snake said: I want to offer the Weebly website builder, but just discovered that I have to provide the hosting for this myself, which I did not realise, I thought it provisioned it on the weebly servers. I seem to recall the original Weebly addon module did, but when Weebly got absorbed as a MC product, development on that addon was abandoned I believe... 3 hours ago, snake said: So now I have users unable to publish as it wants FTP details. depending on your hosting panel, doesn't it create its own FTP account for uploading ? 3 hours ago, snake said: I assume there is no way to use the weebly servers? possibly you could resell directly for Weebly, but the WHMCS docs do state that MC Weebly products have to be self-hosted. https://marketplace.whmcs.com/help/connect/kb/weebly_website_builder/troubleshooting/contacting_support Quote All of our Weebly sites are self-hosted and are published using FTP connections. 3 hours ago, snake said: So it seems the only way to get that to work is to use BUNDLES and create a hosting plan with the addon already added. I don't know if linking to products works for MC options in the same way as configurable options - if you could direct link and specify specific MC addons in that link, then that would be an alternative... if you can't, then that's an oversight on their part. 3 hours ago, snake said: 1. How can I disable the stand alone weebly plans so that customers cannot use them. The market place settings do not give me the option to have only addons and not plans. you could hide the weebly products in products/services as per any normal product and that would remove them from the Weebly sales pages - the addons would still be available via the cart process.... though i'd really suggest contacting Support or MarketConnect support (next week) for this as I don't get that involved supporting MC products and they should know this far better than I. 3 hours ago, snake said: 2. In the bundle, how can I stop customer from de-selecting the weebly addon and choosing none. I don't want them to be able to buy the hosting plan without the weebly addon as it is part of the bundle price. if you wanted to, you can remove the "None" option with a hook or Smarty in the template... and on a per product basis, you could remove all other options and force the user to buy a specific weebly option... both of the above was done using Smarty in the template, but you really should use a hook for this as it's string manipulation and that's going to be more flexible in PHP than Smarty... removing of "None" could be achieved in the template using Smarty if you really had to, but for the second idea where you are specifying which MC options are available on a per product basis, and because there are language strings and potentially differing prices involved in the content, using PHP in a cart hook would be cleaner... unless your removed content could be easily identified and trimmed. Edited June 20, 2020 by brian! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snake Posted June 21, 2020 Author Share Posted June 21, 2020 > depending on your hosting panel, doesn't it create its own FTP account for uploading ? No, since the Weebly products do not include hosting, it is just access to the webbly website builder and nothing else. So the client has to manually enter FTP details to uploa dthe files to their host. The only way to have the hosting included and FTP details pre-propagated, is to add weebly as an addon to a hosting plan, thus my questions above. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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