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What billing panel are you using in 2024?
techdragon
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Curious to see which billing panel / CMS is the most widely used by LET providers.
Poll attached.
Billing panels
- Which billing panel do you use?109 votes
- WHCMS47.71%
- Blesta22.02%
- HostBill13.76%
- Clientexec16.51%
Comments
We use whmcs and we are very happy.
Hostbill is a good option
We use whmcs and my only issue is to make it not look like whmcs means a whmcs custom module which keeps me up at night unless we just build the theme for our own use without the module piece. Lots of great options for look and feel out there though
I think I might build my own. For now, a Make.com invoicing scenario with their scheduling and a free invoicing API
Or I might use Blesta or WHMCS. Idk
Clientexec (only billing module)
you sell hosting/vps?
Yeah, but very focused towards a certain segment where I have earned clients trust through programming/other work. Not really LowEnd pricing etc. I have had a thought in the back of my head that I want to go more public, and I have planned a lot for eventually doing that. I’ve offered this through a limited liability company, etc.
But even then, It’ll probably, at least as a first, be advertised in Sweden mainly or only, as the biggest cloud providers here have prices that’s about maybe 5-10x the pricing that’s offered here.
My end goal is probably serving public companies etc through bidding in procurements, but I have a long way to go, and I’m unsure if that’ll ever end up being the case, and how I’ll get to there.
I used Paymenter (https://paymenter.org/). If you don't want to pay for licenses, this will be your best choice.
If starting fresh, is there anything you lose by starting with HostBill instead of with WHMCS?
Is HostBill the best alternative to WHMCS?
Hostbill by far the best billing system (at least for us)
If you are starting, have budget then go for it instead of whmcs
I'm using Paymenter
Hostbill: appearance, numerous functions and well-documented API
If starting fresh and you are in EU - hostbill is the only one system compatible with EU billing regulations. Whmcs must be heavy moded for that and even than it is crap.
Few drawbacks on hostbill:
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What do do like about HostBill that makes it better than WHMCS? (Other than cost.)
And how does HostBill compare cost-wide to WHMCS, after taking all cost factors into account?
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How so?! Can you provide and example? because I've heavily used its API and it's been clear and straightforward.
Are you really asking to compare whmcs docs to hostbill? Just look at whmcs.com
I don't hope you have strict privacy laws where you run your business because that billing panel is developed and maintained by a 17-year-old one-man one-boy band.
So you're saying that all the other alternatives are fully privacy friendly?
Sorry if I don't want to pay a fuckton amount of money for something a free one can do perfectly fine. Paymenter was used for almost a year and I had no issues.
I've seen and worked with whmcs docs too; but I'm wondering why you called Hostbill docs "Crappy"
In compare to whmcs. Whmcs is industry standard, the point blank.
Nope, I am saying that you put your customer's private information in the hands of a kid.
There is nobody other than you to blame if your panel gets hacked and your customer's data gets leaked because you can't hold a kid legally or financially liable no matter how badly he fucks up.
How do you know this?
He wrote his age on Git Hub. https://github.com/CorwinDev
He mentioned that he's the only one working on this project?
If you click on the Team link in the footer of paymenter.org you get to the following GitHub page: https://github.com/orgs/Paymenter/people
After facing so much issues... finally developing our own billing software... But for now using Clientexec & WHMCS.
As a freelancer in Germany, I use https://www.papierkram.de/, which has everything I need. Since I don't sell VPS/Hosting and only offer Webdesign services I don't need to many things. Papierkram has all legal requirements needed for book-keeping, offers easy hourly tracking of gigs/jobs/projects and allows me to create & send invoices.
First, age doesn't matter when it comes to quality. We all started somewhere, and people are still too entitled because of their age.
Although I don't approve of the other developer the kid worked with (Techno1Monkey famous skid & pedo), the kid "Corwin" himself is fine. He is still learning, but for his age, he shows he can do enough. Let's also not forget that it's open-source software, not paid ones that you would expect much more from. It doesn't matter if he was 18+ or not, you can't hold anyone responsible for it. He's not wearing jack shit. The panel itself functions well and is good for what it needs to do given his age. This is basically the same as calling Pterodactyl shit because it is made by minors (yes, Pterodactyl is also made by minors).
People who use Paymenter usually have non-serious businesses because Paymenter is still in development.
And exactly what billing system have you created that contributes to the community? Exactly, zero.
Okami
Ok, so you don't know how open source works? You can literally check the whole source code yourself. There's no need to mention "kid" again and again. He's not hosting anything.
Edit: about hacking, isn't lagom theme recently was under some vulnerabilities too? So it seems you're creating stereotype.
If I get hacked on a professional billing software it's okay but on opensource it's not acceptable?
Whatever you're saying is pure garbage and just shit talking.
Using Ubersmith and HostBill. Both are OK.