Premium Support Tickets For WHMCS

About Premium Support Tickets For WHMCS

Premium Support Tickets For WHMCS will allow you to control the access to your support and charge fees for creating tickets in certain departments. The module enables your clients to purchase products and product addons containing support credit points used for creating support tickets in chosen departments.

• Module Features:

✔ Add Support Credit Points Upon Ordering Specified Product Or Addon - Depending On Applied Rule

✔ Remove Fixed Number Of Support Credit Points Upon Ticket Creation

✔ Block Possibility To Create Tickets When Client Has Insufficient Number Of Support Credit Points

✔ Store And Manage Support Credit Points Per Department

• Admin Area Features:

✔ Define Number Of Support Credit Points Required To Open Ticket - According To Chosen Department And Priority

✔ Create/Edit/Remove Rules

✔ Enable/Disable Rules

✔ View Support Credit Points Owned By Clients

✔ Modify Number Of Support Credit Points Owned By Clients

• Client Area Features:

✔ Order Support Credit Points

✔ View Available Support Credit Points Per Ticket Department

✔ View Number Of Support Credit Points Required To Open Ticket - According To Chosen Department And Priority

• Rules Configuration:

✔ Set Rule Type - Product/Product Group/Product Addon

✔ Define Items Upon Ordering Which, Support Credit Points Are Added To Client's Account

✔ Define Number Of Support Credit Points That Client's Account Shall Be Increased By

✔ Define To Which Department Support Credit Points Should Be Added

✔ Define Whether Support Credit Points Are Added To Client's Account After Each Billing Cycle Or Once Only

✔ View Rule Status

• General Info:

✔ Multi-Language Support

✔ Supports PHP 5.6 Up To PHP 7.2

✔ Supports WHMCS Template Six

✔ Supports WHMCS V7

Installation

This tutorial will show you how to successfully install and configure Premium Support Tickets For WHMCS. We will guide you step by step through the whole installation and configuration process.

1. Log in to our client area and download the module.

2. In the downloaded file you will find two packages that support different PHP versions. As presented on the screen below, the first one is dedicated to PHP 5.6 up to PHP 7.0, while the second one is aimed at PHP 7.1 up to PHP 7.2. It does not apply to open source versions. Note: You can check the current PHP version in your WHMCS. To do so, proceed to 'Utilities' › 'System' › 'PHP Info'.

3. Extract the downloaded file and choose the one with the right PHP version. Upload and extract the PHP file into the main WHMCS directory. The content of PHP version files should look like this.

4. When you install Premium Support Tickets For WHMCS for the first time you have to rename 'license_RENAME.php' file. File is located in 'modules/addons/SupportTicketsLimiter/license_RENAME.php'. Rename it from 'license_RENAME.php' to 'license.php' .

5. In order to configure your license key, you have to edit a previously renamed 'license.php' file. Enter your license key between quotation marks as presented on the following screen. You can find your license key in our client area → 'My Products'.

6. Now you have to activate the module in your WHMCS system. Log in to your WHMCS admin area. Go to 'Setup' → 'Addon Modules'. Afterwards, find 'Premium Support Tickets' and press 'Activate' button.

7. In the next step you need to permit access to this module. To do so click on 'Configure' button, tick 'Access Control' near desired admin role groups and press 'Save Changes'.

8. Proceed to 'Addons' → 'Premium Support Tickets' → 'Integration Code' and follow steps listed there. Enter adequate tab, depending on which template you are using. There are different code snippets to alter for templates 'Six', 'Five' and 'Default'. Find and open file 'supportticketsubmit-stepone.tpl' located in the template directory you are using, follow the steps described below:

Find and open file 'supportticketsubmit-steptwo.tpl' located in the template directory you are using, follow the steps described below: Please mind the lines numbers, they might differ in your files!

9. You have just successfully installed Premium Support Tickets For WHMCS!

Configuration and Management

At this section we will show you possibilities of Premium Support Tickets For WHMCS. Our module allows you to limit the quantity of new support tickets through introducing Support Credit Points. Those Support Credit Points will be required to open new tickets. The amount of Support Credit Points required to do so may vary depending on tickets' status and department they are created in. Support Credit Points may be obtained along with your products or by ordering special products or product addons.

Rules List

Rules section defines which products or product addons your clients can receive Support Credit Points for. Additionally, they define which department they can be spent in and if they are granted one time or with product's each billing cycle. As you can see, basic information related to the rules is listed under 'Rules' → 'Show Rules' tab.

You can view items assigned to the rule as well as departments, which Support Credit Points will be granted to, by pressing buttons marked on the following screen.

Additionally, you can easily manage each of the rules by using buttons in the 'Actions' column.

Add Rule

Let us add a new rule, press 'Add Rule' to proceed.

Step 1. Fill in rule name and select rule type through pressing 'Select' button next to the desired item. Item type selected here defines the type of the item, for ordering which, your clients will receive Support Credit Points.

Step 2. Select items the order and activation of which will result in receiving Support Credit Points. Alternatively, you can switch 'Select All' to 'On', then, this rule will be applied to all items in the selected items type. Press 'Next' or 'Step 3' to continue.

Step 3. Now, define departments to apply Support Credit Points to by selecting desired ones or switching 'Select All' to 'On'. Next, select billing options for this rule, fill in amount of Support Credit Points added by the rule and select the rule status. Confirm creation of this rule through pressing 'Finish' button.

As you can see on the following screen, the rule has been successfully added.

Department Settings

By default, all tickets are free to open. In the 'Department Settings' tab you can define price per ticket. Let's set up support credit points required to open tickets in the 'Feedback' support department. Press 'Show Details' next to the 'Feedback' department as shown on the following screen to proceed.

Now, start by defining base price per ticket, it will be added to the price per ticket status. Afterwards, fill in the prices for low, normal and high status tickets. Confirm those settings through pressing 'Save'.

Clients

In the 'Clients' tab you can view the amount of Support Credit Points owned by your clients. You can use filter to search for a specific client.

To display/hide client's Support Credit Points, press 'Show Detailed Information' / 'Hide Detailed Information' as shown on the screen below.

You can also manually add/remove credit points to a client, press 'Modify Support Credit Points' to do so.

Now, fill in the amount of Support Credit Points to be added or removed and then press 'Save'.

Client Area

Let's proceed to the client area in order to create a ticket. As you can see, one of the departments is unavailable because this client does not own any Support Ticket Points assigned to this department. Let's create a ticket in '24/7 Support' department.

Clients can view their Support Credit Points for chosen department. Additionally, they can see the price per each ticket priority as shown on the following screen.

As you can see the number of client's points in the department has been reduced from 100 to 90 once the ticket has been correctly submitted.

Sample Workflow

In this section we will show you basic workflow of Premium Support Ticket For WHMCS usage.

New Product Department

1. Let's start by creating a new ticket department, proceed to 'Setup' → 'Support' → 'Support Departments'. Now, press 'Add New Department'.

2. Fill in department name, description and email address. Additionally, assign administrators to it, mark 'Clients Only' and press 'Add New Department'.

New Product Addon

3. Now, let's create a rule, which will add Support Credit Points to the new department. In our case, Support Credit Points will be added through product addon. Therefore, we need to create the product addon first. Proceed to 'Setup' → 'Products/Services' → 'Product Addons' and press 'Add New Addon'.

4. Fill in addon name, description and one time pricing. Additionally, choose one time billing type, mark 'Show on Order' and assign desired products. Proceed through pressing 'Save Changes'.

New Rule

5. Go to 'Addons' → 'Premium Support Ticket' and press 'Add Rule'. 6. Fill in the rule name and select 'Product Addon' rule type. 7. Now, select previously created product addon and press 'Next'. 8. Set up previously created department and select 'One Time' from 'Support Credit Points Frequency' dropdown menu. Now, fill in 200 into 'Support Credit Points' field and press 'Finish'. 9. As you can see, rule appeared in rule list and is ready for use.

Department Configuration

10. Let's set up amount of points required to open tickets in previously created department. Proceed to the 'Department Settings' tab and press 'Show Details' next to the previously created department.

11. Let's leave 'Required Points' at 0, and fill in Low' , 'Normal' and 'High' ticket statuses sequentially with 30, 60 and 120. Press 'Save' to confirm changes.

Example Order

12. Log into client account and order one of product with the previously created product addon.

New Ticket

13. After payment, both the product and the ordered along with it product addon are active. 200 Support Credit Points were granted to this account and now can be spent in '24/7 Support' department.

14. Let's use Support Credit Points by opening a new ticket in the '24/7 Support' department with 'High' status. It will cost 120 Support Credit Points, there should be 200 points on your account so you can afford creating only one ticket with 'High' status.

15. As you can see on the following screen, the ticket was successfully created.

16. Adequate number of Support Credit Points was removed from '24/7 Support' department points bundle.

Tips

1. It is advised to set one of the departments as a free of charge one. Remember to assign it the lowest priority of support to keep other competitive.

Update Instructions

Essential guidance through the process of updating the module is offered here. Keep in mind there is a quick and easy option in our client area that will let you upgrade the license of your module to an open source version at any time - and at a lower price! To take advantage of it, simply use the License Upgrade button located on the product's page and a discounted invoice will be generated automatically.

Common Problems

1. When you have problems with connection, check whether your SELinux or firewall does not block ports.