What is WHMCS –
WHMCS stands for “Web Hosting Manager Complete Solution”. It’s a web based portal which can handle client management, billing and support solution for online business. WHMCS primarily seems to be oriented towards web hosting business with ability of handling everything from signup, web hosting account creation, domain registrations, invoice creation, suspension and termination of web hosting accounts. WHMCS is a powerful business automation tool that puts you firmly in control. Having said that, it will be wrong the say that is ONLY meant for web hosting business. WHMCS has the tools and plugins to manage any online business.
Who Need WHMCS – For anyone running an online business, whmcs can be useful. It works well for small and medium business particularly web hosting business.
What all Can Be Done using WHMCS – WHMCS is used for following, though not limited to these:-
- Maintaining customer records /information, orders, support tickets and financial transaction.
- Generating invoices and related remiders.
- Payment through different gateways.
- Domain registration using interfaces of different registrars and web hosting at remote servers having different hosting panels.
- Handling support issues of the customers (support tickets).
- Internal company interaction.