Westchester, California - (Cheap Web Hosting Directory) - June 13, 2008 - Web hosting provider, Design Shrine Host, has added new billing software for all of its reseller and dedicated hosting plans.

After negotiations, DesignShrineHost has partnered with WHMCS (www.WHMCS.com) and is offering the licensed billing solution WHMCompleteSolution to provide it at discount for all of its clients. WHMCS provides automated, flexible and easy-to-use client management and billing for web hosts and online businesses with the following features:

WHMCS is an integrated client management, billing and support system, providing everything clients need to manage their clients.

Products and Services include:
- Supports products of any type - not just hosting
- Free, One Time and Recurring Billing Cycles
- Prorata Billing Support (One Day Billing)
- Configurable Options for products which increase/decrease the price
- Custom Field support allowing you to collect specific data from a customer
- Addons which allow you to cross-sell additional products and services to clients
- Downloadable Product Support - eg. Software Downloads
- Support for custom Welcome Emails for each product you create
- Stock Management/Auto suspension of orders once unavailable

Flexible Billing features include:
- Automatic invoice generation x days before items are due, reminders and overdue notices all automated
- Ability to create one-off invoices - ideal for web design/consultancy firms
- Automated Recurring Credit Card Billing
- 3D Secure (Verified by Visa and Mastercard SecureCode) for gateways that support it (ProtX and Quantum Gateway)
- PDF Invoicing Support
- Automated credits on overpayments and application to invoices
- Account Prefunding Option for Clients
- Clients can order upgrades/downgrades to their products and services from the client area
- Promotions support both one time and recurring, fixed value or percentage incentives
- Offer Free Domains when bought in conjunction with certain packages/billing cycles
- Tax Support with ability for Multiple Tax Zones and Tax Exemptions

Domain Integration/Management
- Integration with over 10 of the leading domain registrars
- Automated Domain Registrations andTransfers
- Automated Expiry Notices
- Clients can renew anytime from the client area
- Ability to make Nameserver Changes
- Make changes to the WHOIS Contact Information
- Enable/Disable Domain Locking
- Auto Renewal Settings per domain
- Request EPP Code (Selected modules only)
- ID Protection Addons (Selected modules only)
- DNS Management and Email Forwarding Addons (Enom only)
- Allows multiple registrars to be used concurrently

Support Tools
- Announcements for keeping clients up to date with news and events
- Downloads so that you can offer your clients useful applications with their purchases
- A Knowledgebase so that clients can find the help they need themselves reducing ticket workload
- A fully featured Support Ticket System to hanlde all client and non-client communication
- Multiple Departments support which can be open to clients only or public
- Email Piping to allow ticket opening and replies via email
- Mass Mail feature to enable you to give clients latest news, promos and notices

Server Automation
- Over 14 leading control panels supported
- Account Creation and Termination
- Automated Suspension for Overdue and Unsuspension on Payment
- Auto suspension overide option on a per account basis
- Change Account Password from WHMCS (Selected modules only)
- Auto Upgrade/Downgrade Package (Selected modules only)
- Server rotation based on account numbers

Client Profiles and Frontend
- Admin Client Summary page giving an overview of an entire clients account
- Entire product/domain history with statuses including active, cancelled, fraud, terminated, pending-transfer so you and your clients are always kept up to date
- Full Invoice and Payment records
- Complete email history viewable by both admin and client
- Timestamped Notes for detailed record keeping
- Unique Client Portal system giving a central location for all your clients needs
- Multi-language support in both client side display and email templates
- Domain Availability Checker with support for mass lookups
- Server Status summary page showing service status and uptime/load
Statistical Reports and Summaries
- Over 10 statistical reports to keep you up to date on how your business is doing
- Graphs to provide a quick and clear overview of the data
- Easily extendable with a simple modular addon reports system

Customisable and Developer Friendly
- Fully templated client side which can be edited in a regular HTML editor (no complex PHP code)
- Action hooks allowing you to add your own code to run when events occur in WHMCS - eg. after new orders, payments
- Modular system for server, gateway and domain registrars making it easily extendable to support other panels/providers
- Development Kits available for all supported module types
- Remote API System allowing calls and integration from your own existing applications
Security
- Support for moving writeable directories outside of the publicly accessible folder tree
- Allows admin folder custom renaming to hide it from visitors
- Notifications of failed admin login attempts
- Auto IP banning after 3 failed login attempts
- All passwords encrypted in the database
- Credit card data is encrypted using the AES Encryption protocol

WHMCS includes complete support features including a support ticket system, knowledgebase, downloads area and server status outline. It automatically creates, suspends and terminates accounts while providing complete automated billing processes with accounting features and reports. DesignShrineHost is well known for the unmetered reseller hosting plan at $49.95/mo, and all existing and new clients have the options to include WHMCS in orders.

As the reseller hosting department grew, the necessity to add a comprehensive billing system for clients became apparent. After testing and finding this service incomparable to others tested, the company negotiated a low price and are able to offer the service to its clients.

DesignShrineHost.com recently announced that all reseller plans now come with a free one year turnkey website membership (www.designshrinephpfactory.com) to help their resellers gain hosting customers quickly, by selling websites on their domains. On average, they sell for $250 plus a monthly paying hosting customer.

DesignShrineHost offers Reseller Hosting, Web Hosting, IT Consulting, Search Engine Marketing, Turnkey Websites, Domains, and Tutorials.

To learn more, please visit: http://designshrinehost.com.