one main company, multiple websites with whmcs??

[amnesia]

Can anyone suggest the best way to run multiple websites with one install of whmcs?

Example:
Have a site called secureclientarea.com and make that where whmcs is installed.. then direct all sites to that support/order area?

What about merchant accounts? What should the business name on my PP account be? I would think something that is not related to all sites but will not cause confusion to clients.

Does anyone else currently run multiple hosting sites? Can anyone offer any advise?

[aushosts]

You can tag ?systemtemplate=default onto the PHP URLs to show different templates.

However I think with the cost of licenses only $324.95 each this is a small price to pay for your business. What happens if you ever want to sell one of the websites clients off? Stop trying to be cheap and get 2 x licenses.

[amnesia]

I was trying to avoid having 10, 20 different whmcs admin panels and support centers to login to...

ok, but what about the paypal account?

I believe you can only have one business name on your paypal account. How do I go about having everyone pay the same paypal account when the business name is different than the name of the hosting company?

If I remember right, you are only allowed to open one paypal account in your name.

Any ideas on that?

[aushosts]

I was trying to avoid having 10, 20 different whmcs admin panels and support centers to login to...

Umm - somethings up there. Why 10 or 20 hosting companies? Why not just 1 or 2?

ok, but what about the paypal account?

Make it a general name like "Some Holding Company Inc." or something like that and have it on your invoices or somewhere so if a customer googles a transaction on their bank statement it will come up with your website

We get a few google hits for "Aushosts P/L" which is what appears on our customers credit card statements if they buy domains at www.aussiedomainnames.com.au, and this works well for our second retail website.

[amnesia]

Umm - somethings up there. Why 10 or 20 hosting companies? Why not just 1 or 2?

Sorry, exaggeration. would be more like 3 - still it makes the process a pain. but I guess it would work.

Make it a general name like "Some Holding Company Inc." or something like that and have it on your invoices or somewhere so if a customer googles a transaction on their bank statement it will come up with your website

This is an idea I could go with. thanks for your advise. Im open to any other suggestions as well

[aushosts]

Sorry, exaggeration. would be more like 3 - still it makes the process a pain. but I guess it would work.

Our group of companies has 4 WHMCS installs and we don't find it that much of a problem.

[Keksi]

I'm actually after the same. We have two "sub-companies" selling two completely different things.
The only thing they have in common is cPanel, the WHMCS portal and invoices.

What i need is the ability to install three WHMCS installations. I have no problem paying for them, so thats not the case. But they need to share the user, server, invoice and support database, but also work seamless with all three sites. Portal.com, Company1.com and Company2.com.

Any ideas?

[Payton Designs]

This process is simple the only downside is that the Paypal account and invoice logo / name etc will be the same for all of the companies.

Simply upload two more additional template folders to the /templates directory. Name each one after the company it will correspond to. Integrate each template with its corresponding design.

Use the URL below at the end of all your WHMCS links and replace default with the template you need to render. If the URL already has a '?' in it, replace the systemplate with '&'
'?systemtemplate=default '

Hope this helps!

[disgruntled]

Simple is the solution!!

Write some base backend coding for your off installation websites to use the API of your WHMCS installation.

Configure WHMCS to only accept API access for your off installation servers.
Configure your FIREWALL to permit access to and from said IP addresses on correct ports
Configure WHMCS to manage each of these external servers just as you would for any other server

simple simon says WHMCS will do the grunt work from a single installation in this manner.


The not so simple part is you will have to impliment seperate designs at each OFF installation location that do not hook into WHMCS to allow full branding, you will also have to create external gateway scripting seperately and use whmcs only for provisioning.

That said if you are running several companies you should be minted to pay a development team to do what you need

[datawebcorp]

I realize I am late to this conversation, but...

I have one corporation and 3 or 4 d/b/a's. Each d/b/a has it's own site, logo, product offering, etc.

I disagree w/the suggestion of having multiple installs. We tried that method and we found ourselves having to update/patch multiple installs, create knowledge-base articles for multiple installs, monitoring multiple support tickets queues, multiple card processors, etc. Too much duplicate work. We have begun merging the systems into one.

We started-off by creating a branded template for each d/b/a. Then, from each d/b/a's website we simply created links to the support portal and set the URL so it called that d/b/a's template.

Then we announced to our clients what were doing. The only change they see is the name on their credit card statement (again, we warned them of this so there were no surprises.) and also that system-generated emails now come from the "parent" company domain.

For new clients we do not try to keep it a secret that "Company B is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Company A". We even revied our logos to mention the parent company.

On the server side (we use cpanel on Linux) we created a cpanel theme for each DBA. Then we created a reseller account on cPanel for each d/b/a. Then on WHMCS we created one server entry for each d/b/a using that d/b/a's cpanel login credentials. You can associate a server w/a product in WHMCS, so now when someone buys a particular service, it is branded on both the WHMCS and the CPANEL side.

You can also have a unique product email template for each product. Instead of using the standard WHMCS global logo feature, we embed the d/b/a's logo directly into the email template.

All is working well so far. Now we have only one install of WHMCS to maintain, one set of reports to look at, etc.

-Brian

[dewlance.com]

Its not good for you to use One WHMCS on your all sites,

For Example: If your clients check your domain license in WHMCS license verify then WHMCS show "Unauthorized license" )) and then you lose your client "TRUST"

[datawebcorp]

No one is suggesting using multiple, unauthorized installations. My suggestion is to use one, licensed, install for multiple companies.

[Bora]

I would assume that you can actually change the logo that is sent too in templates (for invoices etc.) just use the IF blocks and check for the product name or ID and print a different logo for each? wouldn't that work?

[eebit]

datawebcorp, thanks for the explanation. Its comforting to know people are doing this with success.

The only thing stopping me at the moment is the need for different domain pricing on each sub-company/division.

Does anyone know how I could get around this? (without having to use promo codes)

[datawebcorp]

I would assume that you can actually change the logo that is sent too in templates (for invoices etc.) just use the IF blocks and check for the product name or ID and print a different logo for each? wouldn't that work?

I just set this up and it works great.

I created a Custom Account Field called "industry", and then created a pull-down list containing 3 or 4 specific industries I serve. So now when an email is created, it runs this script:

{if $client_custom_fields.0 eq "Veterinary"}
<img style="float: left;" src="http://dataweb.pro/images/vws_logo.gif" alt="" />
{/if}
{if $client_custom_fields.0 eq "Hospitality"}
<img style="float: left;" src="http://dataweb.pro/images/rb_logo.gif" alt="" />
{/if}
{if $client_custom_fields.0 eq "Fire-EMS"}
<img style="float: left;" src="http://dataweb.pro/images/fems_logo.gif" alt="" />
{/if}
{if $client_custom_fields.0 eq "Other"}
<img style="float: left;" src="http://dataweb.pro/images/other_logo.gif" alt="" />
{/if}

I wasn't sure how I could implement more then two option using the {else} condition, so I skipped using it. The above script works flawlessly for me.