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Overview
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HostBill Multi-Brand plugin allows you to use one HostBill back-end with multiple client front-ends (brands / client portals). You can adjust brand name, look & and feel, invoice templates & and more.
Each Each brand can have separate payment gateway configuration, product sets and support departments.
Note: Each brand must have separate domain name, pointing to your HostBill installation (DNS CNAME or DNS A record).
Installing module
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Activating the module
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- If the plugin is included in your HostBill edition you can download it from your client portal.
- If the plugin is not included in your HostBill edition you can purchase it from our marketplace and then download it from the client area.
- Once you download the plugin extract it in the main HostBill directory.
- Go to Settings → Modules, find and activate HostBill MultiBrand plugin.
- Once the plugin is activated you will be directed to Settings→ Modules→ Plugins to configure the plugin.
Module Configuration
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- Proceed to Extras → HostBill MultiBrand where you can manage your additional brands
Configuring additional brands
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To add new brand proceed to Extras ->HostBill → HostBill MultiBrand. Here you can add new brand with unique set of options:
- General Settings:
- Brand Name - unique brand identifier for each brand. Used only in the admin-area.
- Brand URL - domain (subdomain) name used to access this brand. Please configure your DNS to point this domain/subdomain to your HostBill installinstallation.
- Enabled - whether this additional brand is enabled (disable brand for admin testing)
- Company Name - choose your additional brand company name. This name will be used in emails and as template variable.
- Initial Client group - you can auto-assign each customer registered under this brand to selected client group.
Note: This is really useful feature, use it to easily distinguish customers between brands/have them listed separately separately. - Client Area template - choose which theme should be displayed for this brand. You can have separate clientarea template for each brand to match your website's look & and feel.
- Default clientarea language - if using multi-language multiple languages you can have default language for additional brand set to this value.
- Default clientarea country - choose which country from the country drop-down list should be default when new client signs-up.
- Billing Settings:
- Terms of service URL - provide separate URL for your customers to visit to read TOS upon purchase.
- Invoice Logo - you can upload separate logo to be displayed on your invoices for this brand.
- Invoice template - create separate invoice template to show different company address / invoice layout for customers under this brand.
- Estimate template - create separate estimate template to show different company address / estimate layout for customers under this brand.
- Mail Settings:
- Email address - choose email address that customers should receive messages from (set as Reply-To mail header).
- HTML wrapper - you can choose to wrap your email templates in custom HTML wrapper, giving you option to show your custom brand header/footer in emails.
- Email signature - additionally you can sign all your emails for new brand using custom email signature.
- Enabled Product Settings
Choose orderpages configured in HostBill that should be displayed for this brand.
Orderpages that has have not been enabled will not be displayed/customers from other brands will not have option to buy them. - Enabled Payment Gateways Settings
Select which payment gateway should be enabled for this brand. Additionally if you wish to use different gateway configuration you can do so by enabling " Overwrite default config".
Ie. this way you can use different paypal account accounts for separate brands. This options works for all HostBill-supported payment gateways. - Support Settings
Select support departments that new brand customers will have access to. This way you can have separate support departments per each brand.
FAQ
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QQuestion: Do I need separate HostBill licenses to run additional brands?
AAnswer: No. You only need one license per backend (admin area). You can run multiple front-ends (client portals) using this plugin.
QQuestion: Can I assign staff members to certain brands only?
AAnswer: No No. This is one of few limitations of this module. Your staff members will have access to all your customers/brands.
If you wish to limit access consider purchasing additional HostBill license and have separate HostBill backends for this purpose.Q
Question: Can Can I have separate backends for each brand?
AAnswer: No No. HostBill Backend (admin-area) can work only under one domain name.
QQuestion: Can Can one customer register under different brands using one email address?
AAnswer: Yes Yes! With latest update of HostBill-MultiBrand module it is possible possible.