microtronix Posted Friday at 11:37 AM Share Posted Friday at 11:37 AM Whats stupid is as a developer this is as simple as adding a checkbox to the config to allow us to choose ourselves. I've never in my life understood why software companies lock you in, instead of giving you the option. You keep increasing prices year after year and you want us to stay with you, but if you keep doing this crap most of your base is not gonna find value in your ever increasing prices. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Prateek Posted Friday at 02:40 PM Share Posted Friday at 02:40 PM 14 hours ago, Juanzo said: @WHMCS Rex is it true that the only solution now, $allow_adminarea_invoice_mutation = true; in configuration.php, will be removed in future versions? Yes, it is mentioned on their official website docs. They could have easilly added a checkbox settings to enable/disable this but they chose to enforce it so badly. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LittleCreek Posted Friday at 09:34 PM Share Posted Friday at 09:34 PM 21 hours ago, Juanzo said: @WHMCS Rex is it true that the only solution now, $allow_adminarea_invoice_mutation = true; in configuration.php, will be removed in future versions? No to the first part of your question. You can manually change the invoice back to Draft in the database. Then you can edit it just fine. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Prateek Posted Saturday at 08:07 AM Share Posted Saturday at 08:07 AM 10 hours ago, LittleCreek said: No to the first part of your question. You can manually change the invoice back to Draft in the database. Then you can edit it just fine. It is not wise to edit DB data directly as it might create unknown consequences. There might be dependencies and conditions, for example, if the invoice is in draft state, some other value might have to be x, and it isn't, it might start throwing errors on your WHMCS or cron job. Edit the DB records directly only when it is a last resort; this is not something you create a module to edit the invoice every other day. The best way is to use WHMCS internal APIs to call and update things, but again it won't work as invoice edit is blocked. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WHMCS Technical Analyst WHMCS Ricardo Posted Sunday at 03:57 PM WHMCS Technical Analyst Share Posted Sunday at 03:57 PM On 4/16/2026 at 8:41 PM, Juanzo said: @WHMCS Rex is it true that the only solution now, $allow_adminarea_invoice_mutation = true; in configuration.php, will be removed in future versions? Hey Juanzo. I am afraid this is correct, per the series v9. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bear Posted Sunday at 04:16 PM Share Posted Sunday at 04:16 PM 17 minutes ago, WHMCS Ricardo said: I am afraid this is correct, per the series v9. The one question I have is "why"? Clearly there's a need and demand for it, why is it not even considered being made optional, with warnings about not doing it or what have you. Why is it simply removed, with no options and so on. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LittleCreek Posted Sunday at 05:59 PM Share Posted Sunday at 05:59 PM (edited) On 4/18/2026 at 4:07 AM, Mr. Prateek said: Edit the DB records directly only when it is a last resort; I would say this issue qualifies needing a last resort technique since they are removing it. What else can I do? Edited Sunday at 06:20 PM by LittleCreek 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
microtronix Posted Sunday at 06:22 PM Share Posted Sunday at 06:22 PM 22 minutes ago, LittleCreek said: I would say this issue qualifies needing a last resort technique since they are removing it. What else can I do? Literally! They remove a function I use weekly at least twice then say, only use as a last resort! don't take our feature! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Juanzo Posted Monday at 12:49 AM Share Posted Monday at 12:49 AM Thanks for the confirmation @WHMCS Ricardo. I really hope WHMcs team reconsiders this, hopefully making it optional. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Prateek Posted Monday at 05:26 AM Share Posted Monday at 05:26 AM 11 hours ago, LittleCreek said: I would say this issue qualifies needing a last resort technique since they are removing it. What else can I do? Request WHMCS to make it a confugurable option instead of removing it? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LittleCreek Posted Monday at 10:01 AM Share Posted Monday at 10:01 AM 4 hours ago, Mr. Prateek said: Request WHMCS to make it a confugurable option instead of removing it? I have already done that. I'm not an idiot. -2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Prateek Posted Monday at 10:56 AM Share Posted Monday at 10:56 AM 53 minutes ago, LittleCreek said: I have already done that. I'm not an idiot. certainly not 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LittleCreek Posted 14 hours ago Share Posted 14 hours ago (edited) So now the question I have is how are late fees supposed to be added because none are bring added at this time. Edited 14 hours ago by LittleCreek 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Juanzo Posted 10 hours ago Share Posted 10 hours ago Does anyone know why WebPros is trying to loose WHMcs customers? Anyone know who is the Product Manager of WHMcs that is taking this weird decisions? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bear Posted 9 hours ago Share Posted 9 hours ago If I had to guess, it's not an arbitrary decision, but based on some legal requirement they must follow or get into trouble. I'd have hoped a "change this at your own risk" choice would suffice, but maybe they don't want to chance someone claiming they missed it. Just a guess. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wsa Posted 9 hours ago Share Posted 9 hours ago On 4/19/2026 at 8:49 PM, Juanzo said: Thanks for the confirmation @WHMCS Ricardo. I really hope WHMcs team reconsiders this, hopefully making it optional. Yes, I'm hoping they're making an option 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LittleCreek Posted 6 hours ago Share Posted 6 hours ago It totally broke the adding late fees option. I have invoices that are many days old and none of the late fees have been added like they were supposed to be. This is a real mess. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Juanzo Posted 4 hours ago Share Posted 4 hours ago Maybe stakeholders are not aware of the income reduction they'll keep suffering if this trend continues. Alternatives like Upmind are really tempting and better in several ways, it's not like the old days where competition was not very mature. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bear Posted 2 hours ago Share Posted 2 hours ago 2 hours ago, Juanzo said: Alternatives like Upmind are really tempting and better in several ways Not everyone wants SAAS solutions, or keeping data with a third party due to concerns about client data. I'm one of those businesses. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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