WHMCS alternatives following price increase?

I purchased HostBill in the 20% off sale, but actually still prefer WHMCS at the minute. I have been working on a manual migration thou to get to know things a bit better.
 
I did change from WHMCS to Blesta, it's not perfect but so did WHMCS. I really don't need all the features of WHMCS so blesta was the way to go for me.

Price-wise it's cheaper realiable system (I had an old owned unbranded blesta license so $39/y).
Migration was easy out of the box.
Also they are now working with the domain manager now.

I did miss the official language translation but for me hostbill was the same in this matter. Any alternatives outside "english" never have more than they own languages available (sometime a few but not the most popular)

You need to think what you need. Hostbill ROI will be huge compared to blesta if you have a few clients. If you are "big" enough hostbill can be better altenative than blesta if you don't want to pay WHMCS.
 
@bdacus01

How do you find hostbill? I have been adding my clients, products and payment methods in.

Reading some reviews it seems their pricing went a bit crazy..... can they be trusted now?
 
Jayjayuk said:
How do you find hostbill?
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Everyone has there issues with software vendors. I have used and own Blesta, Whmcs, Clientexec, and Hostbill.

Hostbill has all the features and more than I will ever need. I needed Domains, Shared (cpanel,directadmin and others), VPS setup, and PowerDNS) I have been using it for years. Once you get it all localized it just works. The price has been the same for as long as I have had it. You can buy the starter and upgrade up to the full package if you need to.

If you look at all the Plugins you need on whmcs to do what Hostbill does it would be reoccurring cost over life of whmc in five years I was going to pay more for plugins than software. HB you pay once and pay $99 a year for support if you want..

They are a small Polish company. Kris the owner and programmer is capable and eccentric. I have submit multiple bugs and feature request. About 95% of them got fixed.

If you are looking for custom development well its only him they dont have 3rdparty devs. So if you need custom might be pricy.

Alot of the reviews are older. There was a big upheaval with licensing about 10 or 12 years ago. The older clients didn't like what happened. I wasn't around then best I can tell its sour grapes. I talked to the guys at SNEL and they love hostbill.

I mean can you really trust anyone but Mum?

Blesta would be my favorite if they knew how to complete a product and code faster. They still had not completed the Domain module and or fixed Stripe 5 years ago. I check on them every few years. Their issue is they aren't coding fast enough to beat the competition.

Same with Clientexec not enough features and not coding fast enough to get up to speed. Blesta has better interface as well.

WHMCS well once they got bought by Oakley well I bailed.

I thought you had a HB license?

Again all of these companies are fine (not WHMCS) if they have what you need and you like the look of them..
 
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bdacus01 said:
Everyone has there issues with software vendors. I have used and own Blesta, Whmcs, Clientexec, and Hostbill.

Hostbill has all the features and more than I will ever need. I needed Domains, Shared (cpanel,directadmin and others), VPS setup, and PowerDNS) I have been using it for years. Once you get it all localized it just works. The price has been the same for as long as I have had it. You can buy the starter and upgrade up to the full package if you need to.

If you look at all the Plugins you need on whmcs to do what Hostbill does it would be reoccurring cost over life of whmc in five years I was going to pay more for plugins than software. HB you pay once and pay $99 a year for support if you want..

They are a small Polish company. Kris the owner and programmer is capable and eccentric. I have submit multiple bugs and feature request. About 95% of them got fixed.

If you are looking for custom development well its only him they dont have 3rdparty devs. So if you need custom might be pricy.

Alot of the reviews are older. There was a big upheaval with licensing about 10 or 12 years ago. The older clients didn't like what happened. I wasn't around then best I can tell its sour grapes. I talked to the guys at SNEL and they love hostbill.

I mean can you really trust anyone but Mum?

Blesta would be my favorite if they knew how to complete a product and code faster. They still had not completed the Domain module and or fixed Stripe 5 years ago. I check on them every few years. Their issue is they aren't coding fast enough to beat the competition.

Same with Clientexec not enough features and not coding fast enough to get up to speed. Blesta has better interface as well.

WHMCS well once they got bought by Oakley well I bailed.

I thought you had a HB license?

Again all of these companies are fine (not WHMCS) if they have what you need and you like the look of them..
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Yep, I have the HostBill license and most of the modules I need.

To be honest hosting is a very small part of what I Do. It’s mainly IT support / office365 and phones.

I created a lot of custom products in WHMCS, but they didn’t link anywhere, it’s mainly for re occurring billing, but now HostBill integration works with PAX8, where we get a lot of our products from, it could be very helpful.

I also tried Blesta a year or 2 ago and the Gocardless module wouldn’t allow for varied monthly payments. So that wouldn’t work and they haven’t updated it too.

I just wish HostBill had a few more themes.
 
Jayjayuk said:
I just wish HostBill had a few more themes.
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Yep all of us do.
Jayjayuk said:
hosting is a very small part of what I Do
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Well That could be a issue for most all of the Hosting related Billing panels. They are geared toward Hosting. Just like Woocommerce is not for hosting. You have to pick the closest one to what you really do.

I have seen alot of people ask can I use Blesta to run a store for items. Sure you can but it wont end well.
 
HostBill actually seems to be a better fit than WHMCS…

I best get on with my migration.

I can’t see how to migrate stripe clients payment details or re link them in strip.
 
Jayjayuk said:
I can’t see how to migrate stripe clients payment details or re link them in strip.
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I didn't do a migration at all or for stripe. I have the older prehostbill history in Stripe.com.

The clients will need to resign back up I assume. I would ask them if you need help. Just remeber they are in Poland and they work 8 to 5.
 
well, it seems hostbill have pulled the pax8 plugin. I can't find it anywhere???
 
sahostking said:
Yip we currently moving everything to Hostbill but we have not fully changed as yet. I think the 2 things you have to worry about Hostbill is:

1. Support Response Time
2. Initial Cost

But the cost savings outweigh everything else. Just remember after a year you have to pay $99 each year to keep having hostbill get updated.
The modules and plugins of Hostbill just work - We have tested so many of them and its awesome. They have almost everything we use with modulesgarden.com and a standard cost. Where costs each year for updates on those modules are at fraction of cost of initial purchase.
Its also nice getting everything from the same company rather than different companies to provide these modules.

So far our testing has proven all work currently and it has all our requirements To manage your online backup billing you can use something like LaunchPad MSP Comet Backup billing. So for us its a good choice. We will be moving all customers from cpanel to directadmin also after this aswell. WebPros has just messed us around with these insane increases.

I'd recommend you see if it will fit your company as no one can really say if its suits yours or not.
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Hello. We met the WebPros Team in Thailand this year and thought they would increase the charges this year as well. I just received an email notification that WHMCS license pricing has increased by 30% from Jan 2024. We are planning to hire in-house development team to customise the billing solution. 2023 will be the last year with Web Pros Products if companies like Hostinger can grow without using even a single product of this group, then we can do the some.
 
We also acquired a Hostibll Licence, cost a little upfront but come with all modules and plugins built in.
Anual maintainance fee is reasonable, ticket are charged but it is a model that I like because we never really open a lot of tickets.

There is a whmcs migration plugin.

DirectAdmin module works very good and customer can have most options directly available in his billing panel without loging into directadmin.
Our expecience with hostibll support is very good, including custom development which is proposed at a reasonable rate.
 
I like Hostbill and we have a licence however I really don't like the themes they offer.

Have you guys found any nice theme like Lagom for WHMCS for Hostbill yet?
 
kingstondouglas said:
We are planning to hire in-house development team to customise the billing solution.
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I don't know how large your company is but it seems like you are going to spend thousands to save a few hundred dollars per month.
 
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