Billing Extension Release 1.4.0

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Changelog

Type Description
New
 Multi-brand billing can be used to bill clients from different brands from the same installation of WHMCS (preview)
New
 Indipendent home country, pay to text, company name, sequential invoice number format and next paid invoice number for every brand
New
 Multi-brand works thanks to a new integration between Billing Extension and Advanced Localisation
New
 Multi-brand works with dedicated domains/subdomains for each brand (e.g. brand A it.example.com, B uk.example.com, C anotherexample.com)
New
 Multi-brand can be easily turned on/off and configured in few clicks from a simple interface
New
 An enormous amount of new scripts and functions has been added in this release
New
 Clients page (the old Exemptions page) allows you to assign every client to specific brands (preview)
New
 Shortcut to manage the assignment of brands for every client in their Summary page (preview)
New
 Feature to auto-assign clients to brands depending on the domain name that they're using to register on your WHMCS
New
 Clients can be moved anytime from a brand to another but all their existing invoices will stay with the original brand
New
 Check results of the VIES are now visible only on the profiles of European clients
Improved
 The HTML/CSS code of Integration page has been improved a lot
Improved
 Improved the quality of English and Italian languages of the module
Improved
 An action hook was always running two times instead of one without causing any issue. Now it properly runs only once
Improved
 All core functions of the module has been re-tested to make sure that they still work as expected with all the new features
Changed
 The old Invoice footer and Pay to text sub-menus of Settings page have been merged under Invoice PDF
Changed
 The old EU cookie law and TOS acceptance sub-menus of Settings page have been merged under Legal
Changed
 We decided to hide the uncompleted feature that generates sequential paid invoice numbering across multiple WHMCS systems since multi-brand billing could take its place
Changed
 Exemptions page has been updated to include new features necessary for multi-brand billing and it has been renamed to Clients
Changed
 The feature that converts proforma into invoices in one click has been updated to comply with the functionalities of multi-brand billing
Fixed
 Some small HTML/CSS inaccuracies has been fixed
Fixed
 Little visual bug in Clients page (previously named Exemptions) that was causing success and error boxes to appear out of container
Fixed
 The code that the module used to submit new contents in the back-end of WHMCS was a bit inaccurate

Upgrade instructions

Steps Description
1 This time the update is very big so please backup your database and files and please if you plan to use Multi-Brand Billing, immediately report us any bug you may encounter. Here you can find an introduction to multi-brand (English, Italian)
2 Run this query from PHPMyAdmin to your WHMCS database:

CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `mod_billingextensionbrands` (`id` int(11) NOT NULL, `brand` text NOT NULL, PRIMARY KEY (`id`)) ENGINE=MyISAM DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8;
ALTER TABLE `mod_billingextension` ADD `brand` TEXT CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_general_ci NULL DEFAULT NULL;
INSERT INTO `tbladdonmodules`(`module`, `setting`, `value`) VALUES ('BillingExtension','multibrand','0');
INSERT INTO `tbladdonmodules`(`module`, `setting`, `value`) VALUES ('BillingExtension','multibrandautoassign','0');