How do I setup 30 days trial account?

[e[X]treme[Z]]

Say I want to offer 30 days trial account then subsequently after 30 days whmcs automatically invoice the client?

 

And I'm not sure this is the same step

 

Say I offer $1 for 30 days and after 30 day the normal billing cycles takes over $5/month

[WHMCS John]

Check out the free trial mod in the community addons section within the client area.

[Kenya Webhosting]

Hi,

 

I am just getting to grips with whmcs and am setting up a free trial using the remindtrial.php and removetrial.php files provided at http://www.webhostingbusinessbook.com

 

I have a few questions I was wondering if anyone could help with...

 

1. It says to edit this info

 

$sql_gettrial = "select id from tblhosting where DATEDIFF(now(),regdate)=$trial_period_days and (packageid=16 or packageid=17)";

 

to show the package ID from whmcs. I have set up the free trial package but am not sure whether I use the SAME ID to replace BOTH '16' and '17' above

 

2. In remindtrial.php there is a line

 

$clientArea = "https://yourdomain.com/whmcs/clientarea.php";

 

Am I right in assuming I replace 'yourdomain' with my domain (sounds dumb I know but it isn't mentioned in the book)?

 

3. Further down there are the lines

 

$Name = "WebHost.Com"; //senders name

$email = "admin@webhost.com"; //senders e-mail adress

 

Again, do I replace 'WebHost.Com' with my own domain, and same for the email address?

 

Many thanks

[tsiedsma]

How do we prevent abuse of the free trials? At least with a money back guarantee, the customer pays and has to request a refund when canceling. Doing the free trials allows anyone to setup an account for 30 days. This seems like an open invitation for people to create fake accounts only to abuse the system and go somewhere else. There also doesn't seem to be a way to prevent someone from creating another free trial after the first one is canceled. Matt, is there any plans to build in support for free accounts?