Billing in WHMCS

[urbee]

Hello,

 

Maybe this feature is possible somehow, but after thinking alot i have no idea how to do it.

 

Currently, i'm making bills manually (in Openoffice) for one reason:

i do not want to send & create bills for each registred customer, since i get alot of orders which are not completed, because people do not pay (i sell alot to minors who arent serious about it) I also get quite a few "fraud" orders.

 

So, i'm wondering if theres a feature, when someone orders something from the site, he recieves an "estimate" (a pre-bill) with its own # number, and then if that estimate is payed, he recieves an invoice on his email and i'm able to print that invoice.

 

The reason again for this is i do not want 1000 bills printed (since i need them all in an order - each bill with its own number) and only 200 orders completed. I would like to send bills only to people who pay, since i'm sending most of the bills by regular mail (signed and stamped), 800 unpayed bills would be nonsense.

 

If this is possible please explain how to do it, if its not, maybe i would contribute some money for the plugin to be made, since i'd like all my stuff to be created through WHMCS.

 

So again what i'm imagining:

 

1. client orders something and recieves an "estimate"

2. client pays by that estimate (i get bank transfers mostly)

3. i add his payment and whmcs creates an actual invoice with an invoice number which i can print and send by regular mail

 

Thanks for your responses!

[urbee]

For the record: i activate service and print the invoice AFTER the payment is done, since i dont want my accountant to have that much work and i dont want to send bills to people i know that will not pay them. Sometimes people order stuff and then change their mind the next day...

[WHMCS John]

Have you looked into the Sequential Paid Invoice Numbering option in Setup > General Settings > Invoices tab. Or perhaps the Quotes system?

[othellotech]

the inbuilt sequential invoice system will do exactly what you want