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WHMCS expensive ??
Hostbill is great.
It depends on what you want to do. WHMCS has a lot of features, and you want find another billing system with the same set. But you probably won't use all of them, so depending on which you use there may exist an alternative.
It might not be expensive for a running business. But I'm playing with it at home, so it's expensive for me right now.
Speak to Mike @ licensecart.com he will tell you what to get.
blesta. free with a VPS, if you're interested
If you are just playing at home why do you need a billing panel?
It's just because it's talked a lot, and I'm interested in playing with it. Possibly someday building a hosting website.
Well, if you want to play with WHMCS, then there's no alternative that will work...
So is there any alternatives to play with at home for the moment of time, with a heart of building a hosting website. I'm actually wondering whether WHMCS is a must for the hosting business.
If you want something easy to set up and configure a wide range of features (ticket departments, tax, invoices), then WHMCS is a good option. Most other billing panels have much less customizability or features or whatever. But if you have specific needs then you will probably be able to find another solution that may be cheaper.
if you are referring to alternatives with comparable addons / modules, do not believe there's any.
@Bruce I am. Can you PM me more details?
Boxbilling since it's free
Blesta is the only other billing system that I know of that comes close to matching WHMCS in terms of features and functionality, but every billing system has its pros and cons... You just need to take a look at as many as you can and the features / functions they perform.
hmmm looking for free stuff?
FREE Blesta too with KVM 1GB RAM, upgrade to 2GB, storage 40GB @ $14.95
What would be the actually TOC plus all necessary add-ons, seems the addons for WHMCS are not cheap.
I bought WHMCS a few years ago. I'd consider blesta if I didn't have WHMCS. multi-company is a nice feature. also most source is open )not encoded), so you can tweak it for your own needs.
You can get a cheap reseller hosting package, which includes WHMCS (Internal) license. The cheapest that I have found is with SkyNetHosting (around $10/month). In case this is just for playing around - it would work just fine.
LicenseCart.com
Blesta, not sure if it supports Proxmox but I know it supports SolusVM.
yes it does
Blesta has built in module for Proxmox & for WHMCS you gotta buy the module from ModulesGarden (I use the module).
The module costs $99 one time and works great with lots of features.
I know it's frowned upon for businesses to do so, but if it's just for playing with at home (and on a virtual PC or something) can you not use a... free version of WHMCS (free as in linux ISO free)?
That assumes he doesn't get a rat packed version.
Blesta.
WHMCS all the way. Blesta is coming along though.
You can try WHsuite. It's still in beta so it's free to try
You can email WHMCS and ask them for a development license that can be used on localhost.
Have these sort of requests been granted in the past?
We do have a Dev license for our developer who works on a local instance of our CRM, of which WHMCS is a part.