No Expiry Date for Transfered Domains in WHMCS

[Jase]

Currently no expiry date is given to transfered domains.

 

The expiry date must be added manually in WHMCS.

 

I beleive the most simple way to automate this is as follows:

 

Using a cron job, have WHMCS do a whois, extract the expiry date and add it.

 

It may not be the cleanest way, however it is better then having a human perform the same process.

 

Until a cleaner way can be found, I beleive this would do for now.

[nielsenj]

Domain syncing is on the roadmap for 3.6.1 (http://dev.whmcs.com/ 271)

 

I believe it's for DirectI as well so that should take care of this issue plus a bunch of others to do with domain management, yays!

[dsaunier]

If you have a reseller account, extracting the expiry date by API could be more reliable as Whois tend to have many layouts and not be clearly formatted, but you're both right it is a feature I've been waiting for, as many others it seems.

[Lucas]

Domain syncing is on the roadmap for 3.6.1 (http://dev.whmcs.com/ 271)

 

I believe it's for DirectI as well so that should take care of this issue plus a bunch of others to do with domain management, yays!

 

Hopefully because it only mentions Enom. We are looking for this aswell.

[Jase]

One issue is: WHMCS may not know when the domain has completed the transfer process.

 

This could be resolved as follows:

 

1. When the transfer is initiated, WHMCS checks whois details and adds an entry into a text file.

 

2. A cron job checks the text file, then does a whois once each day, and when the details change, updates the expiry date and removes the entry from the text file.

[dsaunier]

As a precaution it could be useful to have a "dates sync" cronjob run say once a week, that would compare the expiry date of domains in WHMCS against a whois server, and alert us in case of discrepancies, so that we can manually upate the correct dates from the admin. Something else I'd be interested in, would be a cronjob checking domains in the system against a Whois, to get rid of domains that were transfered out by changing their status. Not sure what others think but I may add this as a suggested feature ?

[chickendippers]

There is the risk that if you make too many whois queries you'll get yourself blocked by the whois server.

[Ben-iNetFx]

As a precaution it could be useful to have a "dates sync" cronjob run say once a week, that would compare the expiry date of domains in WHMCS against a whois server, and alert us in case of discrepancies, so that we can manually upate the correct dates from the admin. Something else I'd be interested in, would be a cronjob checking domains in the system against a Whois, to get rid of domains that were transfered out by changing their status. Not sure what others think but I may add this as a suggested feature ?

Modernbill used to do this if you used Enom - you'd run a cron every X days which just checked your account and syncronised the dates.

 

This could be what Matt already added to 3.6.1 though?