28 september 2025
This week I started a major refactoring effort across my three WHMCS modules: Billing Extension, Commission Manager and Mercury. At the moment, I'm also considering the possibility of merging all three into a single, unified product, simply called Katamaze. This is still just an idea, not a final decision, but it's a direction I'm seriously explo...
By Davide Mantenuto
14 november 2022
WHMCS as Fast as Possible It's much easier to understand what is WHMCS making a parallelism with WordPress. Of the many free CMS, WordPress is the best and most popular solution to start a blog. WHMCS is the same in its reference market. It's the way go to start an hosting business for providers, web agencies and IT professionals. Both systems ar...
By Davide Mantenuto
18 august 2022
At 20, I had just started my first company. One year later I was already using WHMCS that has always been there as a constant in my working life. I have involved myself in different projects ranging from hosting, web development, system administration to blockchain, billing, consulting, logistic and marketplaces. Everything I did was more or less ...
By Davide Mantenuto
18 august 2022
I started using WHMCS in 2008. As I look back and look at the situation today, I know that something isn't quite right. I recall WHMCS as an old-school piece of software. It wasn't particularly beautiful but it was reliable. What we have now is a software where form becomed a higher priority than substance. WHMCS staff is spending large amounts of...
By Davide Mantenuto
27 july 2021
Customer support is a drain on every hosting company resources. Each new support ticket takes you away from high-value tasks as you need to spend time answering customers questions. The impact on small and medium sized enterprises is even greater since they have a limited number of employees. In one way or another a provider is forced use senior-l...
By Davide Mantenuto
