Title: Website Client Payment
Last modified: April 5, 2021

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# Website Client Payment

 *  [Rik0399](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rik0399/)
 * (@rik0399)
 * [5 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/website-client-payment/)
 * Hi,
 * Not sure if this is the best place …
 * I want to automate client website payments so that each month they receive a 
   message reminding them of their up-and-coming payment for the website.
 * If they fail to pay, the site goes into “suspension” and then sends another email
   to the client saying the site is now suspended with a link to make their payment.
 * I did look at WHCMCS plugin but it looks too complicated and reviews are not 
   good.
 * Many Thanks

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 *  [Davood Denavi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/binarywc/)
 * (@binarywc)
 * [5 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/website-client-payment/#post-14279856)
 * You might want to look at using a forms plugin for this. Personally my favorite
   forms plugin for things like this is Gravity Forms [https://gravityforms.com](https://gravityforms.com)
   another option would be Formidable [https://wordpress.org/plugins/formidable/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/formidable/).
   Both of those plugins allow you to configure custom notification emails that 
   will work how you described, note that some custom code might be necessary though.
 * Hope this gets you headed in the correct direction.
 *  [George Appiah](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gappiah/)
 * (@gappiah)
 * [5 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/website-client-payment/#post-14279893)
 * > If they fail to pay, the site goes into “suspension” and then sends another
   > email to the client saying the site is now suspended with a link to make their
   > payment.
 * I’m supposing you’re selling web hosting and related services?
 * If so, use WHMCS. Period.
 * That’s the go-to hosting automation solution, especially for the “little guy”.
 * The billing part is easy and there are several [WordPress billing plugins](https://wordpress.org/plugins/search/billing/)
   out there already. Even normal forms, with a bit of ingenuity, can be made to
   handle this — as already suggested by [@binarywc](https://wordpress.org/support/users/binarywc/).
 * But you’re not likely to find a stand-alone WordPress plugin that will connect
   to your hosting and/or domain control panel and **automatically activate, suspend
   and re-activate client websites based on billing status**.
 * > I did look at WHCMCS plugin but it looks too complicated….
 * If you need this to run a business that makes you money, hire someone to do the“
   complicated” set up for you and train you to use it. Don’t avoid the appropriate
   solution simply because it seems complicated to you, especially if you’re not
   an expert in the field.
 * **But please note that whatever WHMCS plugin you’ve seen is NOT a stand-alone
   solution.** It’s just a bridge that connects your WordPress site to WHMCS (client
   billing and hosting automation software)… allowing your clients to manage their
   hosting account from the WordPress dashboard, without the need to login to WHMC.
 * Personally, I prefer to customize the look of my WHMC customer billing portal
   to mimic the branding on my WordPress website — so customers can seamlessly jump
   between the two without even realizing they’re dealing with two different platforms—
   rather than use a plugin to bridge the two (one more chain in the link, one more
   potential point of failure).
 * But, if configuring a plugin is “too complicated” for you, I’m wondering what
   you’re going to say about setting up the WHMCS software itself (remember, again,
   the WHMCS **_plugin_** is useless without the WHMCS itself.)
 * > … and reviews are not good.
 * These reviews are for the 3rd-party WordPress plugins (there are several WHMCS
   plugins, actually) that connect WordPress to WHMCS. These plugins are not developed
   by the developers of WHMCS, are not required to use WHMCS, and they say nothing
   about the quality (or others) of WHMCS.

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 * In: [Everything else WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/miscellaneous/)
 * 2 replies
 * 3 participants
 * Last reply from: [George Appiah](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gappiah/)
 * Last activity: [5 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/website-client-payment/#post-14279893)
 * Status: not resolved

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