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Ability to add more billing cycles than 3 years

  • james bond shared this idea 11 years ago
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This is a very important feature to allow us to add more than 3 years billing cycle in my point of view. When we sell a product like SSL, these can be sell for more than 3 year with more discount. At least up-to 7 years billing cycle is needed.

What you guys think of this feature, please do vote if you agree with me.
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    Add new price for product/services
    Sometime, Customer want to by hosting in 4 years, 5 years or 10 years. But whmcs has only 1 year, 2 years, 3 years.Developer can custom prodcut/services and add new price to product.

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Yashodhan Kulkarni commented 19th May 19
Why have any crude limit on term, it should be flexible and dynamic to the core.
It is unwise whmcs team continued with same old logic especially they are lacking in terms of how packages are built altogether.
There should be two way to create package,

  • Template based where existing whmcs logic will allow users to easily create package with fixed logic.

  • Advanced mode for expert users, where many things can be made customizable and dynamic

IB Design Studios commented 29th April 19
Please add 5 and 10 year as options for billing periods or the ability to set up which billing plans we want to use. I have many customers who wish to pay in advance for more than 3 years. If this isn't possible, the ability to edit what is currently there would also be beneficial/resolve my issue. I don't have anyone set up for 3 years and only 1 or 2 using biannually - if we had the ability to edit this area, I could change those to 5 and 10 years. We should be able to pick and choose how many/what billing options are available for each product that we offer.

Thank you for your consideration!
Ramiz Syed commented 9th March 19
I agree With you, it's necessary for many other products, they need to add 2 more column in database to add 5 and 10 year billing.
Hope WHMCS team will consider your request, but it's already 6 year old.
Jay Nine commented 27th December 18
please add 5 and 10 years renewal cycle to whmcs v7.7
Omega Prime commented 29th November 18
Google brought me here due to a recent sale of needing a period longer than 3 years. The irony...in many situations, it's suggested to never pay for more than a month of hosting until a level of trust is established, but what of customers and clients that do have that level of trust, and would like to pay ahead 5 to 10 years?
Ramiz Syed commented 9th March 19
Hi,
What after you build the trust with clients. if client ask you to bill me for 10 years?
Would you like to say, our software not support 10 year billing. pay maximum 3 years only
Omega Prime commented 4th May 19
That is exactly what happened. It was a few months ago, and the workaround was to manually create a add credit invoice for the amount of 5 or 10 years of hosting (I don't recall the number at the moment). There's always a solution, but it shouldn't involve a workaround/hack/trick.
Trunkoz commented 20th December 17
This is one feature that is absolutely important. We face lots of issues convincing customer to opt for maximum 3 years when they are ready to order for 5 or 10 years. It is equally difficult to convince the sales team about the whmcs limitation. It is high time, WHMCS considers this request.
Selvaganapathy S commented 3rd April 17
I too waiting for this. Many of my customers asking me for quadrennial billing cycle.
Rene Aoki Wookee commented 5th May 16
any updates on this issue?
neroserv commented 2nd November 15
Obvious question! why after the totally new version was released did it not include this basic functional request which has been here for 2+ years
siamsites commented 11th October 14
Namesonic wrote:When selling SSL products you can use another method of specifying as many years as you want using "one-time only" and "Configurable Options" method but this lacks the renewal reminders and doesn't do re-invoicing as a recurring product. This is an SSL Product issue and should be solved separately. Is there a SSL Product Reminder thread?

I do agree with the author and I think that we should have the ability to set the maximum # of years that our products can be offered at and accordingly supply the pricing input, or at least add up to 5 years in total.
Thank you for this tip. This seems to be the only work around at this time, and one I had not considered.
I hope WHMCS will enhance the billing cycle system, until then your "one-time only" solution is the only option to offer more than 3 years. This means we have to setup a special reminder/calendar system, so the client can be informed when the product expires... hopefully by then this feature request has received enough attention to have been included in WHMCS.
siamsites commented 11th October 14
I also resell SSL cerificates, and there are great discounts available for orders over 4 and 5 years, which I cannot give to my clients at this time. This has already made me lose orders, as existing customers asked for these prices/contract terms after finding them on another SSL (re-)seller's website.
Being limited to max of 3 years sucks... ideal would be the option to setup addition (custom) billing cycles, so one could even make one for 10 years, if desired.
PLEASE make this possible WHMCS team!!
canvashost commented 1st October 14
This would be very useful. Many web hosts support 5- and 10-year payment options. It would be very helpful in sales efforts.
CheapCert Club commented 3rd August 14
This is critical for SSL certificates, we can't offer competitive pricing without it.
cuongds commented 15th May 14
How about road map of request feature? Please update
wsd commented 21st October 13
It should be made so that we could decide how many years we need, under each product group.