Automation
One cron job every five minutes does what you would otherwise do by hand: renewal invoices, reminders, late fees, suspensions, domains and tickets.
One cron line runs everything
*/5 * * * * php /home/USER/public_html/cron/cron.phpRun it every 5 minutes. The daily jobs run once a day after the hour you set.
- Generate invoicesDaily
- Reminders and overdue noticesDaily
- Late feesDaily
- SuspensionsDaily
- TerminationsDaily
- CancellationsDaily
Invoices and reminders
- Renewal invoices made before the due date
- A payment reminder, then three overdue notices
- Late fees added once per invoice
- Account credit applied by itself
Suspension and termination
- Automatic suspension after the days you set
- Unsuspend when the invoice is paid
- Automatic termination, off until you switch it on
- Cancellation requests carried out now or at the end of the period
- Exemptions for clients and services
Domains
- Renewal invoices before a domain expires
- Renewal notices on the days you choose
- Expired domains moved to grace, redemption or expired
- Expiry date and status synced from the registrar
Support
- Quiet tickets closed after the hours you set
- Escalation rules run every hour
- Tickets assigned automatically
Clients and money
- Inactive clients marked and cleaned up
- Exchange rates updated daily
- Affiliate commissions cleared on their date
- Disk and bandwidth usage read from the provisioning modules
Watching it work
- A heartbeat shown on the dashboard
- An Automation Status page with every job, its time and failures
- A daily summary e-mail to your administrators
- A web cron address when your host has no cron
Every job, one by one
The cron decides by itself which of these are due.
One cron line runs everything
*/5 * * * * php /home/USER/public_html/cron/cron.phpRun it every 5 minutes. The daily jobs run once a day after the hour you set.
- Generate invoicesRenewal invoices for services, addons, domains and billable items that are due.Daily
- Reminders and overdue noticesA reminder before the due date and three overdue notices after it.Daily
- Late feesAdds the late fee to unpaid invoices that are late enough.Daily
- SuspensionsSuspends services whose invoice is overdue by the days you set.Daily
- TerminationsTerminates services that stayed suspended for the days you set.Daily
- CancellationsCarries out cancellation requests.Daily
- Domain noticesRenewal notices and expired notices, and the domain statuses.Daily
- Domain syncExpiry date and status from the registrar.Daily
- Ticket auto-close and escalationsCloses quiet tickets and runs the escalation rules.Hourly
- Inactive clientsMarks clients without services as inactive and tidies old records.Daily
- Affiliate commissionsMoves cleared commissions into the affiliate balance.Daily
- Exchange ratesUpdates your currencies against the default one.Daily
- Usage updatesDisk and bandwidth use from the provisioning modules.Every 24 hours
- Plugin tasksThe cron task of every active plugin.Every 5 minutes
- Daily summaryAn e-mail to your administrators with what every job did.Daily
The other parts
Admin Area
Everything you and your staff do all day, one click from the top menu: clients, orders, invoices, support, reports and every setting.
Learn moreClient Area
The account your clients get: they pay invoices, manage services and domains, open tickets and find answers by themselves, under your own logo and colours.
Learn moreStore & Order Forms
Where visitors become clients: product groups in three order-form looks, configurable options, a domain search and a checkout that creates the account in the same step.
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