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Same client, multiple companies - how to treat this in WHMCS?


meeven

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I have a client who has several hosting accounts and domains with me. Today, he ordered another domain and account, but the domain contact details are for a different company (I had to log into reseller club and change the domain contact details on his request) of his and the invoice needs to be sent to this other company.

 

Is it possible to handle this through his existing client profile or is the only way to open a separate client account which has the new company's details?

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If he is ordering for seperate companies in all respects he should have seperate accounts.

It seems so.

 

I was just thinking that it would be great to have the ability to specify/associate different client details for different products from within the same client account, somewhat on the lines of the multiple contacts system available. It's hard enough to get them to login to one account as it is. ;-)

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I finally addressed this (or so I thought) by creating a new client account and generating the invoice from that for the other company.

 

Guess what? The client wrote back saying the invoice was in the name of the account holder, not the company and it needed to be in the name of the company.

 

Is there any way at all that the invoice could be made out as Company Name, Address instead of Account Holder Name, Company Name, Address?

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Is there any way at all that the invoice could be made out as Company Name, Address instead of Account Holder Name, Company Name, Address?

 

Yes, put the company name in the first/lastname fields and leave the company name blank ... or change you invoice pdf generator (its unencrypted for that reason) ...

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As always, you have great answers :-)

 

I did think of the first solution, but dismissed it as inelegant, being the perfectionist I am. Guess I need a good dose of practicality. The invoice pdf generator appeals to me more.

 

Thanks once again.

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What if a client has two accounts with different company name and address but would like to use the same email for both of them?? WHMCS won't let me edit the client's profile if the email exists in another account, so I have to change it manually in the database.

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What if a client has two accounts with different company name and address but would like to use the same email for both of them

 

They cant - email address has to be unique - it's hardly rocket science to setup an email address - perhaps you could sell them some consultancy in setting one up for each company ....

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I do think this is an area where WHMCS needs improvement. I don't think it's unusual at all for a client to have different companies (as in different legal entities) and deal with them all through just one client account in WHMCS instead of half a dozen.

 

Off to submit a feature request.

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