Customer Account Number Module

[Lee Sydney]

Hello Everyone, 

I have created a Customer Account Number Modfule for WHMCS

WHMCS V9.0.8
PHP V8.3
Cost (FREE)

If anyone would like this module for there WHMCS please message me will be more then happy to provide the module files to upload and enable,

 

Once you enable the Addon Module If you all ready have customers in your System you can click the run automated account number action and it will auto assign account numbers to each customer.

 

 

 

[Remitur]

I guess I'm missing something about this...

What's the sense? Every customer already has an unique numeric ID assigned by WHMCS ...

[Lee Sydney]

Hello,

Well i some people prefer a Customer account number,

 

So we just created it if people wanted that.

 

Regards

Lee

[Remitur]

17 hours ago, Lee Sydney said:

Well i some people prefer a Customer account number,

So we just created it if people wanted that.

I understand, but anywhere in WHMCS you can already recover the numeric ID assigned by WHMCS to a customer...

Something like this in almost any hook:
 

$userId = $vars['user']->id;

and in Smarty:

{$user->id}

This ID is the very same one used to identify a certain customer's services, invoices, transactions...
I believe that adding another numeric ID, different from the one already assigned by WHMCS, is not only unnecessary but could also lead to confusion and errors.

[wtools]

I totally agree with @Remitur
 

In the screenshot you shared #27 at the top is the user id, and seems like you generated an account number which is 8 digit.

Your customers requited some 8 digit numbers as the user id?

[bear]

Though I agree it may cause confusion, I get that there's a kind of need, IF they use it. 
Anyone reaching out that's a current client generally does so via ticket, and that already shows who they are. Asking for a user ID from them seems redundant and something they will likely not know off hand, causing extra steps. Something like a PIN is useful, if you get support calls, but generally a long ID not so much, IMHO.

I personally don't have a use for it.