Josh Wieder

Good news for current and future clients of Josh Wieder Technical Consulting : customers can now retain a variety of unique services related to popular hosting billing platforms Ubersmith & WHMCS , many of which are not available anywhere else. The services we are now able to offer include:      - Automated per-minute DID usage billing integration for Vitelity VOIP resellers for both Ubersmith & WHMCS.     - Credit card number and profile migration services to and from WHMCS. We are capable of decrypting CC data stored in WHMCS for you and facilitating migration to a token-based payment verification system (such as Authorize.Net CIM) that can improve your compliance with PCI standards.     - PayPal subscription migration services to, from and between WHMCS & Ubersmith.     - Authorize.Net CIM profile migration services.     - Custom development of Authorize.Net & PayPal gateways for WHMCS for extending a variety of functions, for example:                 -

Over the past few days I've been working on a project that involved building an authentication mechanism for a new website which checks user logins against a WHMCS admin database. There are a variety of options for authenticating normal, non-admin WHMCS users: on the easy side of things, you can simply use the WHMCS API's validatelogin() call, or for a more advanced project its possible to implement OAuth within your WHMCS instance . For my project, neither LDAP nor Active Directory were options. I was surprised to find that the WHMCS API did not contain a mechanism for authenticating admin users. I'm somewhat sympathetic given the security implications: WHMCS is a billing application and it should not be used to provide a sortof infrastructure authentication backbone, particularly given the many much more mature options available for this sort of thing. With that said, this project wasn't about looking to turn WHMCS into LDAP ... it was about allowing WHMCS admin t

    Recent versions of WHMCS introduce a feature called " Product Bundles ". The idea is simple - a single link combines a number of products, possibly with a specific set of Configurable Options . These combinations can then be assigned discounts unique to that Bundle.     This comes in handy for a variety of different scenarios, for example in WHMCS instances where multiple brands are in play and you want to run a sale on a single brand that is still sold on other sites.     I recently encountered a situation that involved integrating a pre-existing pricing form within a CMS platform (think Joomla/Wordpress/Drupal/etc) with an order form and series of products with WHMCS. Not only did the signup buttons on the CMS page for each product need to connect to the corresponding WHMCS order form page, but pricing and product details on the CMS page needed to be generated dynamically from information stored in WHMCS, because updating two platforms to make simple price changes suck