Disable Payment Reminder Notifications on a Per Account Basis

Agree, worst yet, you get folks pay it manually, then it is ALSO paid automatically on subscription date, then have to deal with communication and reimbursement and the headaches that come with it. I pay a ISP via Moon Clerk, and they provide an "Upcoming Payment" notification stating I will be charged in 3 days as part of a recurring plan you set up with "ISP". The recurring amount is "$xx.xx" . It should be that easy.

Great suggestion, but only works if you only offer subscription services. I use WHMCS for way more then subscriptions, general web design invoices, maintenance work, web care plans and hosting, my clients have option to pay with whatever they choose (credit card, snailmail etc...) and for some, subscriptions work for them.

...update on this. So you can get it to work on only "specific" clients that you signed up with autopay. I did a work around leveraging client groups.

I created a client group named "Automatic Withdrawal" and assigned it to those specific Autopay clients. Then used similar conditional language in the invoice/reminder templates starting with {if $client_group_name eq "Automatic Withdrawal"}. Hope this helps others while we wait for couple more years to get this solution implemented. - All the best.

Of course, due to the limitation of only being able to assign (1) client group to client, this won't work if you already use a client group for your clients. (Here's the feature request for allowing a client to belong to multiple client groups = https://requests.whmcs.com/topic/add-client-to-multiple-client-groups ), make sure to head over there and give it a thumbs up too.

These two features alone would provide huge functionality and improve automation ability.

That's a great idea, @nwd. I don't currently use client groups so this may work for me, although I definitely agree that we should be able to assign clients to multiple groups. Not being able to makes them slightly useless, I would think. Thanks for the input!

Hm. Just realized that this won't work after all. If I have clients that are on a PayPal subscription for their hosting and I put them in that group, then the emails will tell them that the payment will go through automatically for everything, including other things that do not have an associated PayPal subscription, such as domains or other random invoices.

Back to the drawing board.

Very True @Greg. It's for those cases where I, for example, have bundled domain, hosting, web care services all in one package, one recurring invoice,, so they won't get any other billing besides the subscription one. If I do need to send a very rare one-off, I will just remove them from the client group temporarily for that one to fire off correctly.

Still be much better if this could be built in option of course, preferably a tick box for each service (so hosting = subscription, all else (domains etc...) get normal billing).

Hooo boy. I figured it out but this is unacceptably complicated for such an essential aspect of customer service...

1. Add a client group (in my case, Automatic Hosting Payments) and check the box saying to separate invoices.

2. Add the following to your configuration.php file:

1. // Smarty custom email based template policy:

   $smarty_security_policy = array(

   'mail' => array(

   'php_functions' => array(

   'strpos',

   'isset',

   'empty',

   'count',

   'sizeof',

   'in_array',

   'is_array',

   'time',

   'nl2br',

   'var_dump',

   ),

   ),

   );

3. The invoice items that you want this to apply to need some kind of common string. In my case, all my hosting plans have "Level" in the title.

4. Add the following to the top of your email template and adjust the first two variables - the first is the string that's used in the names of the invoice items, the second is the name of the client group:

1. {assign var = "search_term" value = "Level"}

   {assign var = "group_name" value = "Automatic Hosting Payments"}

   {assign var = "auto_pay_true" value = []}

   {foreach key = k item = v from = $invoice_items}

   {var_dump( strpos($v.description, $search_term) )}

   {if strpos($v.description, $search_term) === false}

   {$auto_pay_true[] = "false"}

   {else}

   {$auto_pay_true[] = "true"}

   {/if}

   {/foreach}

   {if ( $client_group_name eq $group_name ) and ( in_array( 'true', $auto_pay_true ) )}

   {assign var = "auto_pay" value = "true"}

   {else}

   {assign var = "auto_pay" value = "false"}

   {/if}

5. After that you can use

1. {if $auto_pay eq 'true'}Do stuff.{/if}

in your email template to display something that should only be displayed if the client is BOTH in the group AND the invoice contains an item with your common string.

Holy hell. Hope this helps someone. But I hope more that WHMCS adds some kind of core solution for this.

Sorry, won't let me edit now -- realized you don't need to add

1. var_dump

to the configuration file, only

1. strpos

and the others, which are the default allowed PHP functions.

Yes this is bery much needed. Like why would you send out Customer Invoice, Invoice Payment Reminder if it will automaticly charge them later on?