PD Discount Manager for WHMCS

PD Discount Manager lets a hosting company run real promotions in WHMCS without a promo code for the customer to find or mistype. You write rules such as "10% off the first invoice for new customers" or "25% off when they pay two years upfront", and the discount appears in the store and cart by itself. You can also sell several products together for one price with a single add-to-basket link, and offer any product as a free trial that converts to a paid service on your normal WHMCS billing.

It is built for hosts who run seasonal offers, loyalty rewards and trials, and who want to see what each discount cost them.

Why hosts choose PD Discount Manager

Discounts that apply themselves. A rule with no promo code applies to every matching order, with nothing for the customer to type. The store, the configure page and the cart show the discounted price beside the original, and the price shown is the price charged at checkout.

Rules that target who you mean. Aim a rule at products, product groups, add-ons, domains by TLD, specific clients or client groups. Add conditions: new clients only, first order only, clients who already own certain products, a minimum number of active services, billing cycles, a date range, a minimum order value or a minimum item price.

You decide how long it lasts. Take the discount off the first invoice only, the first N invoices, or every renewal. What a customer was sold is what they keep: an every-renewal discount carries on at renewal even after the offer has ended, and switching a rule off stops only new sales.

Bundles that sell a set. Offer several products for a fixed total or a percentage off, with one shareable link that drops every product into the cart at the bundle price. The link works for signed-out visitors.

Free trials as a payment method. An eligible customer picks the free-trial method at checkout and the service runs for the trial length, with no payment and no invoice until the trial ends. You choose whether it then converts, suspends or cancels.

See what it cost. The Usage tab lists each discount given, to which client and for how much, with a total per currency rather than one mixed figure, plus how many trials are running and how many converted.

How it works

1. Create a rule. Choose the discount, what it applies to, who qualifies, and how long it lasts. A rule takes effect for the next cart the moment you save it, with no cron needed.
2. Customers see the price. The cart shows the lower price beside the original, with the promo code box left empty.
3. The invoice says what came off. Each discounted invoice line carries a note such as "includes 10% off (was £12.00)".
4. Renewals follow your terms. First-invoice rules return to full price at renewal; every-renewal rules continue.
5. Check the Usage tab to see who used what.

What you get in WHMCS

Discount rules

• Percentage off, a fixed amount off (never more than the price) or free setup fee, taken from the recurring price, the setup fee or both
• A 100% rule makes the order £0 and the service is provisioned, so you can test a product end to end without a billable invoice
• Fixed amounts set in your default currency are converted at your exchange rates, or you can set an exact amount per currency; rounding follows each currency
• A value matrix sets the discount per product per cycle, or per TLD per year per action, with a preview of each price
• Up to three quantity tiers that scale the discount by how many of an item are ordered
• Domain rules by TLD, by action (register, transfer, renew) and by registration year; premium domains are never discounted
• Optional promo codes. A code only applies when entered, and the cart says what it gives, such as "SPRING20: 20% off"
• With stacking off, the best single matching rule applies; with stacking on, matching rules combine in priority order

Limits and control

• A total usage limit retires a rule after N orders, and a per-client limit stops it for a client after they have used it N times
• Renewals never use up a limit
• One click disables or enables a rule. A master "Apply discounts" switch pauses every rule and bundle for new orders, and customers keep what they already bought
• A rule applies to an upgrade only when you tick "also apply when a client upgrades to this product"

Bundles and free trials

• Fixed-total or percentage bundles, applied on every payment, the first payment only, or the first N payments
• A bundle can target a product's configurable option, such as a Pro tier
• Trials limited to new clients, one per client per product, or one per client in total
• A trial can require a payment method on file, so a customer is never shown £0 and then charged in full
• Choose invoice timing: raise the invoice a set number of days before the trial ends, or issue it at checkout payable on the trial end date
• When the trial ends, the renewal is billed through a real payment gateway, and the client is emailed beforehand
• A client who cancels during a trial is not chased for the trial invoice

Rewarding early payers

• A client who pays an invoice at least N days before it is due receives account credit, as a percentage or a fixed amount, with an optional cap per invoice. An invoice earns it once, and Add Funds invoices earn nothing

What your customers get

• A lower price with no code to find: discounted prices show in the store, cart, domain search and TLD pricing pages
• A clear invoice: every discounted line states what came off and what the price was
• A free trial that is honest: the trial method appears only for eligible carts, labelled with the trial length, and a client who is not eligible can still buy at full price
• Your wording: customer-facing text can be reworded or translated in an override file that updates never overwrite

One product, every feature

PD Discount Manager is one paid module with everything included: discounts, bundles, trials and early-payment rewards. There are no add-on tiers. It costs nothing beyond its subscription, with no third-party service or metered charges. It installs into PD Modules in one click, updates itself, and adds its own tables without modifying WHMCS files.

If your licence lapses, customers keep being served through the grace period and expiry. Once it is suspended, new discounts, bundle prices and free trials stop and the store simply charges its normal prices. Nothing is deleted and customers see nothing about licensing.

Requirements

• WHMCS 9 or later on PHP 8.2 or later, with the ionCube Loader
• PD Modules, the free control panel every PD module installs into