The module will allow you to easily personalize each brand by adjusting its client area template, logo, language and many other elements.
You will be able to assign clients to brands and migrate them, as well as assign products and ticket departments to every brand.
Moreover, you will be able to configure payments gateways, customize invoices, add relations to knowledgebase articles, downloads and more - each action can be taken per brand.

We will guide you step by step through the whole installation and configuration process.

Note: If you are still using any of Multibrand For WHMCS previous versions prior to v2.x, read about it here.

Note: You can check current PHP version in your WHMCS. To do so proceed to 'Utilities' → 'System' → 'PHP Info'.

The content of PHP version files should look like this.

File is located in 'modules/addons/MultibrandFunctionality/license_RENAME.php'. Rename it from 'license_RENAME.php' to 'license.php'.

Enter your license key between quotation marks as presented on the following screen. You can find your license key in your client area → 'My Products'.

Log in to your WHMCS admin area. Go to 'Setup' → 'Addon Modules'. Afterwards, find 'Multibrand' and press 'Activate' button.

To do so, click on 'Configure' button, go to 'Access Control' area and check the required group of administrators. Press 'Save Changes'.

This folder are located in 'your_whmcs/modules/addons/Multibrand/' location.

The 'gateways' folder is located in 'your_whmcs/modules/' and the 'callback' folder in 'your_whmcs/modules/gateways' (do NOT mistake the folders with those in the Multibrand addon location)

The 'invoicepdf_rename.tpl' file is located in the 'your_whmcs/templates/six/' folder.
Just remove the default 'invoicepdf.tpl' file from the template folder and rename the 'invoicepdf_rename.tpl' file to 'invoicepdf.tpl' in the same folder.

Simply go to 'Addons' → 'Multibrand'. But, before you can start using the module, you still need to set up the 'Integration Code'. It is required for the correct logo branding and it should be done for all brand templates that you want to use.
It is very easy. Go to 'Utilities' → 'Integration Code' and follow the instructions given there, depending on the version of your WHMCS and the templates you are using.

Such a migration functionality will be added in the future stable version. We are sorry for the inconvenience.

Important: Due to the module beta limitations, configuration of one of the brands must be manually set to your main WHMCS domain. Simplification of this process will be solved in the future editions.

Note: Once the configuration of your brand is complete, you will still need to set up a CNAME DNS record before the brand is published (status - enabled).
This record will point from the branded domain towards your main domain used by WHMCS. To learn more about setting up the CNAME records, proceed to the Creating CNAME Records section.
Do not forget to publish the brand as soon as the CNAME record is spread worldwide.

In addition, you can see the current month's revenue, total sales and the last brand update.

First, fill out the brand's 'Email Address', 'Company Name' and 'TOS URL' . Next, choose the brand's 'Color', 'Ticket Departments' , 'Default Language', 'Template' and 'Order Template' .
Make sure that the chosen template is integrated with Multibrand correctly (see the Integration Code section). Finally, toggle 'Auto Client Assign' if you wish to.
Here you can also manage your current brand's status, but you should change it to 'Enabled' only after you have configured the rest of the settings.
Do not forget to press 'Save Configuration' .

Note: Currently all new users added by admin or through API will not be assigned to any brand by default. This feature will be included in the next releases.

• Invoice Branding - if enabled, the invoices will be branded with the number and basic information
• Invoice Pay To Text - address that is displayed on the invoice as the 'Pay To' details.
• Sequential Invoice Number Format - if invoice branding is enabled, the provided sequential invoice number format will be used
• Next Sequential Number - change this option only if you want to reset the automatic sequential numbering. Otherwise leave empty

Note: Remember to do the 'Additional Settings' step during module installation to make the PDF invoices also branded.

You can check the list of the currently available gates in the Feature List.
If in the future releases you would like to see a payment gateway that is not yet available, please contact our support.

To add a new payment gateway configuration, press 'Add' button.

Save the configuration and activate the gateway.

Multibrand For WHMCS can work with any gateway that works within your WHMCS. The only limitation is that these payment gateways use the same settings for all brands.

In addition, you can set your custom CSS email styling as well as the header and footer content.

• If enabled, the template configured here will be sent to the clients using the branded SMTP settings instead of the ones configured in the main WHMCS template and configuration.
• If enabled, but not configured yet, the main WHMCS template will be sent with branding applied to it.
• If disabled, the main WHMCS template will be sent using the main WHMCS SMTP configuration without any branding applied.

To start editing a branded template, simply press 'Edit' button.

Additionally, you can use the available merge fields tags just like in the standard email templates. Save the changes after finishing.

If you would like to restore the default template, simply return to editing it and click the 'Delete Template' button.

To start, select the product, addon or domain tab and click on the 'Add' button. In the following example you will see how to add branding for product pricing.

You can also automatically fill in the amounts from the main product and update them, refreshing the currencies rate.

Note: Availability of billing cycles, prices and currencies to be edited depends on their main configuration in WHMCS.
If one of them is not available for branding, it means that there is no corresponding configuration in the main WHMCS.

In addition, you can manually manage, assign and unassign selected items to the brand.
Do not forget to check the 'Branded Admin Area Functionalities' section, where you will find more brand relation management functionality outside the Multibrand addon.

Note: Currently there is no possibility of mass management, assigning and unassigning selected items to the brand. This functionality will be implemented in future releases.

Assignment takes place at the moment of client's registration for the branded domain. You can also manually assign the already existing customers to the brand or migrate them to another.

Note: If 'Auto Client Assign' option is enabled, then the customers who are already registered in one of the brands and try to log in to another brand,will also be automatically assigned to it.
Therefore, one customer can be assigned to several brands at the same time.

In the pop-up select the customer you want to add to the brand and press 'Save' .

Click 'Migrate' button next to the client and then select the brand to which you want to assign the client.

These services are automatically added to the brand while ordering from the branded domain.

Press 'Add' button and then select the type and service you want to assign to the brand.

These invoices are automatically added to the brand after the order has been created from the branded domain.

Press 'Add' button and select the invoice you want to assign to the brand.

These tickets are automatically branded after a ticket has been opened in one of the earlier branded departments.

Press 'Add' button and select the ticket you want to assign to the brand.

In addition, here you can find statistics of views, useful points, number of votes and the date of assignment to the brand.

In addition, here you can find a download category, type, number of downloads and the date of assignment to the brand.

In addition, here you can find the date of announcement creation, assignment to the brand and the published status.

You can filter them by the date period and selected brands.

See the Branding Limitations section for more information. More admin area integrations are coming coon.

'Brand Details' column informs you about the membership of clients and invoices to a certain brand (more details will be added soon).
Let's see how it looks in the 'Client List'.

For example, each brand domain can have a separate template, logo, language, services and invoices.
You can find more information about what other functionalities can be branded in the Features list.

If you have enabled branding of a given template, the email sent to the client will be sent using the mailbox specified in the SMTP settings of the given brand.
Additionally, the subject, logo, content and signature will branded accordingly too. Here you can see an example of an order email.

For instance, if your branded domain is 'reseller.com' and the domain with your WHMCS is 'whmcs.domain.com' , your CNAME will be 'www.reseller.com. CNAME whmcs.domain.com.'.
Note 1: As you can see above, each domain has to be closed with a full stop.
Note 2: To learn more about certificate requirements, visit the Common Problems section.

Only when you have parked your domains can you move to setting the CNAME records on your panels. See the tips below.

Note: This step is required only if you own more than one domain.

Note: To define the record's TTL, you have to use 'Advanced DNS Zone Editor'.

Note: Do not forget to place a full stop at the end.

Afterwards, proceed to the 'Websites & Domains' tab and press 'DNS Settings' .

Afterwards, proceed to 'Websites & Domains' tab and press 'DNS Settings'.

Finish by pressing 'OK'.
Note: The changes will take between 4 to 8 hours to update worldwide.

If either your branded domains or WHMCS domain use the SSL connection, they should also support one of the below certificates.
The supported types of certificates:

• Dedicated SSL Certificate - handled separately for each domain.
• Wildcard - if all brands and main WHMCS use the same domain.
• SAN - if your brands and main WHMCS use different domains.

This is the way WHMCS works. It cannot be considered the limitation of our module which uses the 'WHMCS System URL' scheme.

Note: AutoSSL function is unlikely to work for the CNAME entries, and therefore you should use virtual hosts (vhosts) instead.

For this reason, some of the functionalities in the previous versions are not yet available, or are operating in a limited way.
These features will be successively restored in the future versions, including the coming 2.0 stable version. Below you can find the features that are not yet supported:

• Membership Details - a column with brands in the admin area displayed in the lists of tickets, orders or services. Currently, this feature is available only for the lists of clients and orders.
• Log in as a Client to a Brand - the action directly accessible from the client profile in the admin area.
• Create Invoice/Quote/Ticket in a Brand - the action directly accessible from the client profile in the admin area.
• Choose Brand in particular WHMCS sections - the feature enabling direct brand selection in the ticket, quote, announcement, download and knowledgebase view (currently, only the order and invoice views are supported).
• Product Bundle - not yet available for branding.
• Brand Reports - the current statistics are limited.
• Brand Previews - the preview of the brand in the client area is not yet implemented.
• Default Brand - replacement of this function will be introduced in the stable version.

• Bridges - Multibrand For WHMCS does not support any kind of bridges (WordPress, Joomla).
• Link replacement - currently, links are replaced with their branded counterparts with a visible delay.
  This is the only feasible way to proceed for the time being.
  
• Clients Profile → Send Email - if you try to send an email template, of which a branded counterpart already exists, you will receive an error.
  This occurs when the default email is blocked and its branded counterpart is sent in the meantime.
• Branded Quote → Duplicate - duplicating a branded quote results in receiving an unbranded quote.
• Configurable Options Pricing - currently, there is no possibility to set a different pricing per brand for configurable options.
• Emails - not branded due to the lack of possibility to determine the brand that the email should be sent from:
  • Affiliate Monthly Referrals Report
  • Clients Only Bounce Message
• WHMCS V6 - Multibrand For WHMCS 2.X will no longer support WHMCS V6 and template five. Use Multibrand For WHMCS 1.X instead.

• WHMCS Modules
  • SMS Center For WHMCS - SMS messages sent to customers cannot be branded. A default set of SMS templates is sent to clients from all brands.
    
  • Resellers Center For WHMCS - this module is not yet compatible with our Multibrand For WHMCS module.

• Others
  • Cloudflare - it is a service that will mask your server IP address.
    This is because they use their own DNS to resolve to one of their many reverse proxy servers and will cause the incompatibility with Multibrand module.
    You may disallow the CloudFlare network to assume NS authority and not become the intermediary between the user and your server, but then your Cloudflare service may become unproductive.

In order to use the logo file provided in the 'Multibrand For WHMCS' module, find the proper line at the template file and replace it with '{$logo}' variable.
The line responsible for a displayed logo is placed at the 'header.tpl' file located in a currently used template.

The second one is the domain on which you have your WHMCS. The redirection goes from the first domain to the second.
Full stops after domains are also important.
Please note that there could be a delay with propagation of changes for DNS servers while using A type CNAME records.

If both of them are using the same domain, you will need a wildcard certificate.
If they are using different domains, secure them with the SAN certificate.
This is just the way WHMCS works. It is not the limitation of our module.

In case you are using some custom template, you must be aware of the fact that unexpected errors might occur and we cannot take the responsibility for solving them.

5. Multibrand For WHMCS module is not compatible with our Resellers Center For WHMCS.
There is no integration between these modules and we do not recommend using them together.