Automatically email client after X amount of days

[Daniel]

I had this created a while ago and have not been using it recently, however it should work fine with the latest version.

 

This is a simple php script that runs on a daily cron to email clients 45 days after signup. This can be used to ask for feedback or to upsell a product.

 

Download Link

[handsonwebhosting]

Nice Idea. We do this currently, but a premade module would be helpful.

Thanks for contributing!

[LemonBarley]

nice idea. installing it

[LemonBarley]

hmm. Daniel maybe you want to provide a template for people to use as well?

[Daniel]

The email template can be absolutely anything you like, we've not used this since around WHMCS 3.4 and no longer have the template that we used.

 

I'm sure it said something along the lines of "We're happy to tell you you've been with XYZHosting for 45 days now and thought we'd send a quick email to check you're happy with the service blah blah blah.."

 

I'm sure you can come up with something

[jasonhk]

I think using the API would be a lot easier, this API function probably wasn't around when the script above was written but using the API is probably the better way

 

function send_notice($message_name,$client_id) {

$url = "http://www.yourdomain.com/whmcs/includes/api.php"; # URL to WHMCS API file
$username = "Admin"; # Admin username goes here
$password = "demo"; # Admin password goes here

$postfields["username"] = $username;
$postfields["password"] = md5($password);
$postfields["action"] = "sendemail";
$postfields["messagename"] = $message_name;
$postfields["id"] = $client_id;

	$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 100);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $postfields);
$data = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);

$data = explode(";",$data);
foreach ($data AS $temp) {
		 $temp = explode("=",$temp);
 		$results[$temp[0]] = $temp[1];
	}

if ($results["result"]=="success") {
	 # Result was OK!
	} else {
# An error occured
 echo "The following error occured: ".$results["message"];
}

}

[flip]

Jason: Wow!

[flip]

EDIT: Any updated instructions possible?

What to do with your API?

 

(:

thanks!

[jasonhk]

Flip, the downloaded script doesn't use the API, I gave the API code example above as it's a better way to send mail then by using curl to login and send the mail.

[Operator]

flip if you want more info on what the whmcs api can do see the documentation there are 3 pages on it.

[flip]

Thanks you guys!

 

So what file would post #6 go into?

 

Thanks again!

[Operator]

hey flip i sent you a private message on the forum check it.

[growe]

I'm gonna look at setting this up. I just read another thread that redirected me to this one. It seems a fair amount of people would be interested in this. Could this be added as a standard feature?

[atDev]

Is there a way of including custom variables in the email?

[DraGoNeTi]

reupload and update it for v7, please

[brian!]

23 minutes ago, DraGoNeTi said:

reupload and update it for v7, please

the addon would be irrelevant now - you can do the same thing using the built in Email Marketer...

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The email marketer tool allows you to schedule automated emails to be sent out to your clients when certain events and/or criteria are met.

https://blog.whmcs.com/?t=67270

[DraGoNeTi]

hmm... i didn't think of that... ! thanks, i will give it a try