TheWhopper Posted January 22, 2008 Share Posted January 22, 2008 Can WHMCS be customized to remove any references (customer facing...don't care if I see it on the admin side) relating to a Hosting service? So far WHMCS has everything I'm looking for, except I plan on selling merchandise rather than Hosting services. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WHMCS CEO Matt Posted January 22, 2008 WHMCS CEO Share Posted January 22, 2008 The entire client frontend is templated so you can certainly remove any of the hosting references you don't want. Matt 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheWhopper Posted January 22, 2008 Author Share Posted January 22, 2008 Does anyone know of any e-commerce sites (not related to Hosting) using WHMCS? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
statewide Posted January 23, 2008 Share Posted January 23, 2008 The only thing that I can't make work with using WHMCS and ecommerce (tangible products) is the fact I can't specify Shipping charges. Also the shopping cart doesn't let the customer easily select the Quantity of each product they want. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JasonO Posted January 24, 2008 Share Posted January 24, 2008 Maybe modify the text "Setup Fee" to "Shipping Fee" instead? It can be done in the language files. For the quantity, i'm not sure.. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PPH Posted January 24, 2008 Share Posted January 24, 2008 I have seen WHMCS used for a shopping cart type system by others, but feel a regular shopping cart would be better for this purpose. WHMCS is nice and works great, but there are better suited products for selling products requiring shipping etc. Now hiring Matt to custom design WHMCS for your purposes is always another option I am sure 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uberhost Posted January 24, 2008 Share Posted January 24, 2008 So far WHMCS has everything I'm looking for, except I plan on selling merchandise rather than Hosting services. How extensive a list of merchandise? The great thing about using WHMCS is that it is actually fun to use, and not a struggle as with so many shopping cart systems. Also, Matt's support is unbeatable. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheWhopper Posted January 25, 2008 Author Share Posted January 25, 2008 How extensive a list of merchandise? The great thing about using WHMCS is that it is actually fun to use, and not a struggle as with so many shopping cart systems. Also, Matt's support is unbeatable. Hard to say at this point to be honest Probably no more than a dozen different categories, each category would have 2 - 5 different products to choose from. 20-40 different products all together, maybe. Showed my partner WHMCS...and he likes the fact support ticket/billing information is tightly integrated and easily visible on the customer-facing screens. I really don't see anything I would need to modify...but I do see things I would like to hide/remove simply because I'm not providing any Hosting services. JT 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
9DollarDomains Posted January 25, 2008 Share Posted January 25, 2008 Hi. I'm new to WHMCS, but I'd have to think that OSCommerce would be better suited to a general merchandise store. It'll calculate shipping, both weight and dimensional, it'll do qty price breaks, it'll do case lots, it'll do... pretty much everything. Don't get me wrong - WHMCS is fantastic - but I would think that OSCommerce would have to be better suited for the job. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cubitfx Posted February 6, 2008 Share Posted February 6, 2008 Hi. I'm new to WHMCS, but I'd have to think that OSCommerce would be better suited to a general merchandise store. It'll calculate shipping, both weight and dimensional, it'll do qty price breaks, it'll do case lots, it'll do... pretty much everything. Don't get me wrong - WHMCS is fantastic - but I would think that OSCommerce would have to be better suited for the job. If you like OSCommerce, checkout ZenCart. It has many more features and has a much better system in place for customization. Every again will you lose your mods when you update to the newest version! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charliez Posted February 23, 2008 Share Posted February 23, 2008 And if you think ZenCart is good... just check Magento... tons of features, modern, fast and very easy to customize... it is the future in open source ecommerce. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PPH Posted February 24, 2008 Share Posted February 24, 2008 And if you think ZenCart is good... just check Magento... tons of features, modern, fast and very easy to customize... it is the future in open source ecommerce. We found it not ready for a live site and as far as I know is still beta software. After setting our server up to run it for a customer, they went back to OSC. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ninthcom Posted May 2, 2008 Share Posted May 2, 2008 Can WHMCS be customized to remove any references (customer facing...don't care if I see it on the admin side) relating to a Hosting service? So far WHMCS has everything I'm looking for, except I plan on selling merchandise rather than Hosting services. Hello TheWhopper, We installed WHMCS onto Bam Fitness Reno (.com) -- no spaces of course. It is really working well. We would really like to see if we can get a more flexible shipping and quantity item input box into the cart system though. It looks like we will most likely be hiring Matt to build this feature. The billing and invoicing system is so good that we would like to use the core system for many other clients, but will need a full shipping function in the cart that is more modern. Let me know if you would like to share the cost on this? We would me more than happy to get started on this! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jsi Posted May 2, 2008 Share Posted May 2, 2008 WHMCS is great for billing (not to mention Matt's best support than any other competitor). It is tempting to use it for ecommerce but if anything, I would say using an already build cart like zen cart or OSC is best. Then maybe you can create a loginshare or some type of integration with WHMCS so Matts affiliate module also works on your ecommerce site. Something so you can have the same affiliate system on your hosting accounts as well as your products. Just shooting ideas. Im sure Matt would not mind to accomodate that for a small fee (unless he's planning on adding that option as an addon for all of us on the next upgrade? wink wink). 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nabil Posted May 16, 2008 Share Posted May 16, 2008 If you add a group you have the option of whether to display or hide the group from the shopping cart. Is it possible to do this for Register Domain and Transfer Domain? The entire client frontend is templated so you can certainly remove any of the hosting references you don't want. Matt 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nabil Posted June 11, 2008 Share Posted June 11, 2008 Hosting is not a mainstay of our business at all, probably less than half a percent and only sold to existing customers and not visible on our site. We use WHMCS because of the subscription aspect. While it would be nice to add new categories we simply bundle everything into 'other products/services'. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dreamcon Posted June 12, 2008 Share Posted June 12, 2008 I have seen some of the sites not related with hosting for invoicing purpose(everyone know WHMCS is a billing software),But shopping cart seems too much of customization 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zorro67 Posted June 12, 2008 Share Posted June 12, 2008 do you mean modifying a cart to use as a domain creation system, or customising WHMCS to look more like other carts? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NetworkOfHosting.com Posted July 4, 2008 Share Posted July 4, 2008 The only thing that I can't make work with using WHMCS and ecommerce (tangible products) is the fact I can't specify Shipping charges. Also the shopping cart doesn't let the customer easily select the Quantity of each product they want. I'd like to be able to offer the customers the ability to specify quantity for a product/service too. http://forum.whmcs.com/showthread.php?p=66420#post66420 networkofhosting 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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